La Foule [English translation]

I see the city, celebrating and delirious

Suffocating under the sun and under the joy

And I hear in the music the shouts, the laughter

Which bursts and bounces around me

Dazed, confused, I stay there

And the crowd throws me into his arms

Carried by the crowd which drags us

Leads us

Crushed against one another

We form but one body

And flow effortlessly

We move, chained to one another,

And leave us both

Fulfilled, drunk and happy.

Lead by the crowd that leaps,

And that dances

A crazed dance

Our two hands are welded

And sometimes lift

Our entwined bodies soar

And both fall

Fulfilled, drunk and happy.

And the joy splashed though his smile

Pierces me and reflects in my heart

But suddenly I let out a cry among the laughter

When the crowd snatches him from my arms

Taken by the crowd which drags us

Leads us

Away from each other

I fight and I struggle

But the sound of his voice

Is stifled in the laughter of the others

And I shout in pain, in fury, and in rage

And I cry

Lead by the crowd that leaps,

And that dances

A crazed dance

I am carried away

And I clench my fists, curse the crowd which steals from me

The man that it had given me

And who I never found.

• Artist:Édith Piaf