La Lavande [English translation]

The sun is motionless, the summer becomes crazy

All the boys and girls are going away with us

The song on their lips, the song of happiness

And the heart filled with fever, love and flowers

It is the lavender festival and I see deep in your eyes

That during the lavender festival a love was born for both of us

A love with the scent of lavender and a sky awaiting the blue

Because the lavender festival is the blue, the blue of your eyes

Comes the night, reminding me of the nights back there

The perfume is not the same, back there is mo more1

But be it jasmine or lavender, what I only want for us now

Are your arms as a garland around my neck

It is the lavender festival and I see deep in your eyes

That during the lavender festival a love was born for both of us

A love with the scent of lavender and a sky awaiting the blue

Because the lavender festival is the blue, the blue of your eyes

We shut the blinds, the dance fades

But your hand is in mine and I'm waiting for tomorrow

For the day to come will be reborn in our arms

It is life that starts anew for you and me

1. Those verses are a reference to the nostalgia of french Algeria, where Macias was born, the impossibility of coming back to their roots, and the new life of the repatriate colonists in the southern France of the seventies.

• Artist:Enrico Macias