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Originally Posted by Spamlet
Until we get a true French speaker to do it, this is the gist of the first verse and chorus Marti posted:
I winked at the clouds
Beating of eyelashes
I challenged the biggest storms
Umbrella gone
Swimming in fresh water
A little clumsy
Sandcastles in the foam
Ephemeral and not right
[Chorus]
Time takes its time
And I'm losing mine
I invent childish games
I do little with anything
Time takes a good deal of time
And I make trouble with mine
I invent games that are worthless
I'm little but I do well
Waiting for you
Waiting for you
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I make bubbles in rosewater
I drown for a/(some?) love
On the Horizon, spenetic nights
Gods, I go [to?], I run [to?]
I make Circles of smoke
with my cigarettes
i'm busting the greatest years [by smoking]
but i"m stuborn
I write down on the floor some partitions
with india ink [well it's chinese in french]
Melodies for days of school
[some] easy [melodies] without thorns
I'm making [waves/splashes] in the bathtub
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea [reference to jules verne]
I pour in the water your perfume
[and then I] drown, and take a breathe of air
Chorus
and you from time to time
you could go/switch to mine
we could play like/as children
[with?] the sun in our mornings
while waiting
while waiting
and you from time to time
you could go/switch to mine
let's play pretend , maybe
by doing it well
rough traduction... maybe you can help