Couleurs d'automne [English translation]

And in her dreams

Of brief colours

She makes me love in the middle of birds

When she wakes up,

When she wakes up, between her lips

To tell me everything she looks for her words

And I tell me

Her eyes have the colour of autumn

And I watch her

She never answers at the telephone

And I watch her

She's a child found in a wreck

And I keep her

A very beautiful girl for her age

And I keep her

But she can't read

And she doesn't dare to say

She simply knows

How to smile to death

So often

When I tell her about the wind

She lays on the ground and learns

She loves me so much

And nothing more is like before

She understands, she waits for me

I love her so much

And from laughters

To memories

I will present her to my parents

But I must say

Yes I must say

That she's already waiting for two babies of mine

And I tell me

Their eyes will have the colour of autumn

And I watch her

They won't answer to me at the telephone

And I watch her

They will listen to the story of her wreck

And I keep her

And they will think she doesn't look her age

And I keep her

They won't know to read

They will be proud to say that

So simply

With a great smile

To death

All the scholars

I will teach them the time

The seagulls and the time

Without money

Yes but everything is like before

I've lost my time

And winter is waiting for me

• Artist:Daniel Balavoine