Les portes claquent [English translation]

The promises, they were beautiful

That shone at the tips of fingers

On the address-headed paper

Meeting up, we will see each other again

They were like caresses

I imagined the timbre of your voice

And then one day laziness

What kept us together I don’t know

We never saw each other again, the time passed

The years passed and I looked them in the face

The doors slammed on my cheeks

Questions which make you mad

See, see, see how time presses on

The traces on my cheeks left clumsiness

Why is it you say

In every way, we won’t see each other again

The story was a happy one

It flew away to the treetops

But the silence has left me thinking

That I had committed a crime

It was in my memory

At the end of a dream, far from routine

The indifference has no reflection

But some pellets of buck-shot

We never saw each other again, the time passed

The years passed and I looked them in the face

The doors slammed on my cheeks

Questions which make you mad

See, see, see how time presses on

The traces on my cheeks left clumsiness

Why is it you say

In every way, we won’t see each other again

Yes I know, I like

Looking at my memories

I draw them in gouache (body-colour)

When they can’t come back any more

I have played at ‘apaches’

Wandering and proud so as to suffer less

Keeping only my headdress

And going forward into the future

We never saw each other again, the time passed

The years passed and I looked them in the face

The doors slammed on my cheeks

Questions which make you mad

See, see, see how time presses on

The traces on my cheeks left clumsiness

Why is it you say

In every way, we won’t see each other again

We won’t see each other again

We won’t see each other again

• Artist:La Grande Sophie
• Album:Nos histoires (2015)