Leila et les chasseurs [English translation]

Leila, if you knew how her eyes go

When she sees the hunters approaching

Leila, if you knew how her eyes go

When she sees the hunters approaching

No point in lying

Leila knows what it means,

That fire behind the white eyelids

Fixed on her curves

These rain dampened words

That die as soon as said

These bodies held still

After the easy flashes

Leila, she knows them too well

False noses and false numbers

Even on the ground even dead

And even so the strongest

Their talk full of twists and turns

That fear the light of day

They’re all hiding something

They’re all hunting something

Leila, if you knew how her eyes go

When she sees the hunters approaching

Leila, if you knew how her eyes go

When she sees the hunters approaching

There are those who cry with joy

On adding a tick

Those who love her forever and ever

Who have a plane just afterwards

Those who have boats on the Seine

Too far away for me to take you there

Those who have castles full of gold

Those who have ports full of boats

They speak so loudly

They’re so numerous

That one tired night she goes to sleep

Against the skin of one or other of them

As long as he’s a bit better than the others

A bit less of a liar than the others

She’ll awake to a grey morning

And the painted paper flowers

Leila, if you knew how her eyes go

When she sees the hunters approaching

Leila, if you knew how her eyes go

When she sees the hunters approaching

Leila can’t do anything about it

If she has the freshness of a rose

She’s the target of your arrows

But it’s not you she’s looking for

She dreams of someone delicate, someone wild

Who kisses her on the fifteenth date

Who trembles when taking her hand

And most of all says nothing

Leila, she knows them too well

False noses and false numbers

Even on the ground even dead

And even so the strongest

They’re all hiding something

They’re all hunting something

• Artist:Francis Cabrel