Gosse de Paris [English translation]

Kid from Paris,

To kiss each other

We didn't have a room

No money

Not even a bed

Even a broken one

Just a patch of green grass

Away from everything

But it was only there in the night

We could hear the screams of the big wacky trains

Rushing into the unknown, riding without us

Carrying our hearts up to the islands

Kid from Paris,

We cried

On the platform of a train station

My girl,

By loosening

Our gripped hands

About a whole romance

From Paris

I shouldn't have gone away

I shouldn't have left you behind

We had to settle for

a happiness of four pennies

Only for you

Only for me

Only for us

You know,

Kid from Paris,

It was promised

Nor my heart

Nor my lips

Have lied

If I never wrote to you

It's just that the lucky star

Betrayed me

Believe me, I did what I could.

But we won't see Treasure Island

Far too many years have dropped on me

Too much time away from you, but that doesn't matter

Kid from Paris,

Kid from my street,

Shadow among shadows

From the suburbs,

I still love you

Lost Girlfriend

From my early childhood,

My love