Le Café des trois colombes [English translation]

Nancy in winter, a wet snow

A girl comes in a coffee shop

Me, I drink my glass, she sits next to me

I don't know how to approach her

The rain, the sunshine, it's nothing great

But it's good to force one's star

Then comes the time where we talk about ourselves

And the snow melted beneath our steps

We met in the Three Doves coffee shop

At the homeless loves meetings

We were good, we felt alone in the world

We had nothing, but we had our whole life

Nancy in spring, it looks like the Midi (south of France)

She loves me and I love her too

We talk as we're walking, we remake the philo (philosophy)

I take a thousand pictures of her

The little bistros around the square

Put out their terraces in the sun

But there was too much light and noise

We were waiting for the night to come

We saw each other in the Three Doves coffee shop

At the homeless loves meetings

We were good, we felt alone in the world

We had nothing, but we had our whole life

Nancy, it's too far, it's at the end of the world

It gets farther on each anniversary

But I'm sure, my sorrows remember

Happiness went through the Lorraine

She went to follow other paths

Which do not cross mine often

I forgot you, but it's stronger than me

Sometimes I think of you

We saw each other in the Three Doves coffee shop

At the homeless loves meetings

We were good, we felt alone in the world

We had nothing, but we had our whole life

• Artist:Joe Dassin