Coulent les rires [English translation]

You spit out of your mouth all your bursts of laughter

To forget about the happiness and the joy you don't have

You keep on your heart the strange memory

Of youth's lightness, which is now beginning to wilt

But where are you going, running behind your footsteps,

Grazing your face, piling up the journeys?

But what are you doing, dirtying yourself with your words

When you feel yourself blush, betrayed by your sighs?

When you don't know how to tell us

That you cry, too

That your heart is bleeding

When laughter flows out of your mouth

You keep shouting at us that you keep the faith

In the face of sadness, of the sorrows which harass you

You conceal your tears behind imposing voices

Which sing for you the hallelujah of a happiness you don't have

But promise me that someday you'll be

More than just another clown when faced with false words

But promise me that you wont always be

The one who's always laughing in all of your crazy races

Without admitting that he doesn't know how to say

That he cries, too

That his heart is bleeding

When laughter flows out of his mouth

• Artist:Pierre Lapointe
• Album:Sentiments humains