Padam padam [English translation]

This tune which haunts me day and night

This tune wasn't written today

It comes from as far away as I come

Trawled around by a hundred thousand musicains

One day this tune will drive me mad

A hundred times I've wanted to say why

But it's interrupted me

It always speaks before i do

And its voice drowns out my voice

Padam...padam...padam

It comes running up behind me

Padam...padam...padam

It plays me the trick of: do you remember

C'est un air qui me montre du doigt

Et je traîne après moi comme un drole d'erreur

Cet air qui sait tout par cœur

It says: "Remember your loves

Remember cos it's your turn

There's no reason why you shouldn't cry

Encumbered with your memories

"And me, I see again those who remain

My 20 years make the drum beat

I see the succession of gestures flash by

All the comedy of love

To this tune which just keeps playing

Des "je t'aime" de quatorze-juillet

Padam...padam...padam...

The 'always's which we buy on the cheap

Des "veux-tu" en voilà par paquets

Et tout ca pour tomber juste au coin d'la rue

Sur l'air qui m'a reconnue

...

Listen to the commotion which it causes me

Comme si tout mon passé défilait

...

You need to keep some sorrow for later

I've got scores full in this tune which beats.

Which beats like a wooden heart