Le temps des cathédrales [English translation]

[Gringoire:]

I sing of love and tragedy

In time now lost to memory

A time when dreams were carved in stone

A time when love was poet song

Though now the bells no longer ring

The voices of our age shall sing

And bring this world alive to you

The dark world that once we knew...

Refrain:

From ashes rose the age of the cathedrals

The old birthed anew

Past and future yet unknown

Through death and toil man strove through each upheaval

Reaching for the stars

Through the dreams we carved in stone

The work and toil of many years

Had passed with pain and many tears

Till last were seen these rise above

The get of dreams, the fruits of love

Cathedral bells rang Eleisons

While poets sang of love long gone

That promised those who heard their call

There’d be better times for all

Refrain (x2)

But it’s all gone, the age of the cathedrals

See them storming past

Through the gates of Notre Dame

Let in the gypsies, pagans, and the vandals!

See us come undone

By the year 2001

In the year 2001...