Les Avalanches [English translation]

The avalanches one ignites

When on a Sunday one is bored

And when even boredom gives way

When staring at the pouring rain

One rolls up one’s sleeves

To wallow in jealousy

Where are you, who are you lunching with

Is there a woman who smiles at you

Does she lean

Toward you, when you tell her

That you’ve got all Sunday

That you’re both far away from Paris

That between me and you, it’s on the rocks

That you need a little life of your own

My man is still in his adolescence

And that’s what transports me

He always watches the avalanches fall

Just like he watches the pouring rain

The avalanches one ignites

When on a Sunday one is bored

One is bored and one starts to scrutinize

The doubts without any ground

Those that prompts one to produce

Murmurs disguised as a cry

The heart is no longer invulnerable

The worst suspicions even are permitted

It’s like a thirst that one quenches

With details, with pencil-marks

One turns and turns around like a Sunday

One no longer thinks of Monday

One watches the pouring rain like a game

The avalanche of rain

My man is still in his adolescence

And that’s what transports me

He always watches the avalanches fall

Just like he watches the pouring rain

The avalanches one ignites

When on a Sunday one is bored

When he is far away and I think

Of all these little things left unsaid

I see him approaching

In a bar, in a nightclub

With a smile full of complicity

Just like on the day he got me

But today is Sunday

And the rain is pouring and pouring

As if to drown all my hopes

I’ve only got him in my life

And his slightest turmoil

Would drive me into the ground

I wish him to keep his innocence

That he returns to me unsoiled

My man is still in his adolescence

And that’s what transports me

He always watches the avalanches fall

Just like he watches the pouring rain

And when we are together on Sunday

There is never room for boredom

And when at times he leans towards me

There is no longer room for doubt

There is no longer room for doubt

• Artist:Jane Birkin