Le téléphone pleure [English translation]

(Child) Hello!

(Dad) Listen, is your mum nearby?

Please tell her: "Mum, there's someone for you."

(C) Ah, it's the gentleman from last time?

Ok, I'll go find her

I think she's taking a bath

and I don't know if she can come.

(D) Tell her, please, tell her it's important

I am going to wait.

(C) Tell me, have you done something to my mum?

She is gesturing to me

she is whispering to me "Make him believe I'm not here."

(D) Tell me, how is your house?

Do you learn your lessons every evening?

(C) Oh yes! But since my mum works

a neighbor takes me to school.

There's only one signature on my booklet,

others have those of their dads, I don't.

(D) Oh, tell her I suffer

I have been suffering for six years,

it's your age, my child.

(C) Ah, no. I am five years old.

Eh, tell me, have you already met my mum?

For she has never told me about you.

Stay on the line, eh!

(D) The telephone weeps when she doesn't come

When he cries "I love you"

the words die inside the handset.

The telephone weeps, don't hang up

I am so close to you with my voice.

Will you be at the hotel Beau-Rivage for the upcoming holidays?

Do you like the beach?

(C) Oh yes, I love bathing

and I can also swim.

But tell me, how do you know the hotel Beau-Rivage?

Have you been to Sainte Maxime too?

(P) Oh, tell her my suffering

how much I love both of you!

(C) I love you? But I have never seen you

What's up?

Your voice is different, why?

But... you are crying, why?

(D) The telephone weeps when she doesn't come

When he cries "I love you"

the words die inside the handset.

The telephone weeps, don't hang up

I am so close to you with my voice.

Tell me, listen, yes

The telephone weepsfor the last time

because tomorrow I will be at the bottom of a train.

Tell me, stall her.

(C) But she's going away

(D) Insist!

(C) She's gone

(D) If she's gone, so be it.

(C) Goodbye, sir.

(D) Goodbye, little one.

• Artist:Claude François