Elle rentrait de l'école [English translation]

She was coming back from school

Along the fields of flowers

The heart filled with crazy thoughts

Of the hairdresser's son

She was coming back from school

Her laughter was flying away

Amidst the sunflowers

And the perfumed wind

I, one day, she was telling herself,

I shall have long long hair

In the new town's towers

I shall find my true lover

I, one day, I'll go further

Than the paths which surround me

I will become a star in somebody's eyes

It will be in morning newspapers

She was coming back from school

And was running and singing

She was creating lyrics

Along the pipe of Time

She was thinking of her mother

Little model shadow

Who used to iron stuff

Or do the dishes

I, never, she was telling herself,

Shall I live that kind of life

It would seem that up above in heaven

An angel heard her voice

At the bar, at the chapel

People talk about nothing but that

About a little star found on a path

It was in morning newspapers

About a little star from the nearby village

It was in morning newspapers...

• Artist:Hélène Ségara