Les vases bleues [English translation]

Because you care so much about people

You grit your teeth, you keep head up

Maps, marbles and pencils are the centre of your world

You use them with clenched fist like a bomb

You walk sideways like a crab

And the sea recedes

Farewell blue silts, dragging feet

Shifting sands, happy sands

Wind sands of blue silts

You fall asleep with your hair as a helmet

On your body a shirt, in your heart a wound

Prisoner with his feet caught in the flow

Packed or empty suitcase at low tide

You walk sideways like a crab

And the sea recedes

Farewell blue silts, dragging feet

Shifting sands, happy sands

Wind sands of blue silts

You walk sideways like a crab

And the sea recedes

Farewell blue silts, dragging feet

Shifting sands, happy sands

Wind sands of blue silts

Men, animals and women are at war

And the sea recedes

Lifes lost in iron waves

And the sea recedes

You forget to empty your glass

And the sea recedes

You walk sideways like a crab

And the sea recedes

You walk sideways like a crab

And the sea recedes

Farewell blue silts, dragging feet

Shifting sands, happy sands

Wind sands of blue silts

• Artist:Gérard Manset
• Album:Rien à raconter (1976)