Nicolas [English translation]

No, it's just a song that comes around now and then,

Just a smile, in memory of a boy from another time.

When my days are grey,

When it snows on my life, I go back in my memory

To the French high school where one night he waited for me.

He smiled. Nicolas.

Nicolas, Nicolas, my first tear was for you alone.

We were kids, our pain was as worthy as that of the greats.

Nicolas, Nicolas, it was love, we didn't know that.

Such is life, that it takes us,

It carries us where it wants and where it goes.

A man-child, his eyes too big, on a dock, crying.

It has snowed a lot since then there, on Paris,

And he knows nothing, of me and of my life,

What I do, who I am.

He doesn't know the other Maritza; he keeps the real one there.

Nicolas, Nicolas my first heartache has your name.

I knew that I would never1 come back here to you.

Nicolas, Nicolas it was love, we didn't know that.

Such is time, that flies,

That makes up all our pains and our joys.

Nicolas, Nicolas, my first tear was for you alone.

We were kids, our pain was as worthy as that of the greats.

Nicolas, Nicolas, it was love, we didn't know that.

Such is life, that it takes us,

It carries us where it wants and where it goes.

Nicolas, Nicolas.....

1. It's the simple future tense in the French lyrics but that just doesn't sound right in English.

• Artist:Sylvie Vartan