S'abriter de l'orage [English translation]

A pale light fell from a pale window

I had eyes of an easily recognisable colour

The colour of those faded trucks on garage driveways

Come in, she said come and shelter yourself from the storm

I had crossed the debris of our fairytale nights

Stumbled over our scree, our magnificent wreckage

With her tender tattoo still on my forehead 1

Come in, she said come and shelter yourself from the storm

I spoke of the wind on a lake and of a white sail

Of the caresses that her hair covered in an avalanche

Of the ticket to eternity lost in the shipwreck

Come in, she said come and shelter yourself from the storm

I asked does everything become solid again later?

Can one exist for long suspended in the void?

In this continuous dizziness, this freeze frame?

Come in, she said come and shelter yourself from the storm

You will have other todays, other difficult times

In the long run we rebuild ourselves on definite things

The springtime after the blaze, the floating wreckage

Come in, she said come and shelter yourself from the storm

A pale light fell from a pale window

I had eyes of an easily recognisable colour

The colour of those faded trucks on garage driveways

Come in, she said come and shelter yourself from the storm

1. I can't really be sure whose forehead this is. Or whose tatoo for that matter...

• Artist:Francis Cabrel