Rêves De Gamin Lyrics in English Nassi

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Rêves De Gamin by Nassi from French to English.
What do you wanna do when you grow up?
The teacher had asked me
Well, I'd like to sing for people
So their hearts feel a little less sad
I wanna see myself in thirty years
On a stage facing my crowd
To share love and all my pain
I was far from the brightest
I didn't get ten out of ten very often
My math teacher, Mr. Mèche-Vent
Says I'm just a fraud
That with life, with time
I'll probably end up on welfare
I close my eyes, I picture myself on stage with you
I've made myself promises
That my heart remembers
When I aim at the top
I look further
I wanna follow my star
The one my moons reveal to me
To bring my childhood dreams to life
My guidance counselor
Wants to steer me into construction
And when I talk to her about my songs she kindly tells me to stop
There's no future in it anyway, she says in a discouraging tone
You'd better keep both feet on the ground
And then when I get home
I hear my parents arguing
What are we gonna do with this boy?
Leave him alone, he's just a kid
Nobody pays attention
To what I really long for
I've forged a mindset no doubt can stop
I've made myself promises
That my heart remembers
When I aim at the top
I look further
I wanna follow my star
The one my moons reveal to me
To bring my childhood dreams to life
The more time goes by
The more people tell me that
I don't belong
Or that I'm not like them
That I gotta do what's written in the books
But stubborn as I am, I just do what I want
I've made myself promises
That my heart remembers
When I aim at the top
I look further
I wanna follow my star
The one my moons reveal to me
To bring my childhood dreams to life
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SONG MEANING

Rêves De Gamin (“Childhood Dreams”) is Nassi’s feel-good reminder that the voice inside us is often louder than the people around us. As schoolteachers and counselors push the young narrator toward “realistic” jobs, he daydreams about standing on a stage, bright lights on his face, singing to make hearts “a little less sad.” Every harsh remark from a math teacher or worried parent only fuels his imagination, and he pictures himself thirty years later sharing both love and pain with a cheering crowd.

The chorus turns those daydreams into a personal motto: follow your star, trust the signs the moon shows you, and keep aiming higher than the summit others set. The song is an anthem of perseverance, self-belief, and refusing to let society shrink your ambitions. Whether you once doodled comic books in class or still nurse a secret goal, Nassi invites you to dust off those childhood dreams and give them the spotlight they deserve.

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