L'addition Lyrics in English by Yves Montand
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song L'addition by Yves Montand from French to English.
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Des jours heureux, une colombe
Happy days, a dove
Des soirs qui tombent, un regard bleu
Evenings falling, a blue look
Plus un sanglot, plus un violon
No more a sob, no more a violin
La vie et tout ce temps cassé
Life and all this broken time
Que l'on appelle le passé
What we call the past
Plus l'avenir en dix leçons
Plus the future in ten lessons
De nos prophètes bénévoles
From our volunteer prophets
Plus une bombe sur une école
No more a bomb on a school
Et les oiseaux qui chantent après
And the birds that sing afterwards
L' avion ne l'a pas fait exprès
The plane didn't do it on purpose
Plus les amis dans la maison
No more friends in the house
Moins ceux qui pour toujours s'en vont
Less those who forever go away
Les enfants sont déjà devant
The children are already ahead
Ôté de nous, ôté de moi
Taken from us, taken from me
Il ne nous reste pas beaucoup
We don't have much left
Plus les combats, le cœur qui bat
No more fighting, no more beating heart
Les défaites souvent secrètes
Often secret defeats
Et tous les doutes qu'on redoute
And all the doubts we fear
Mas quand on a perdu le nôtre
But when we lost ours
Il y a encore l'espoir des autres
There is still hope for others
Multiplié par les idées
Multiplied by ideas
Divisé par tous les mots d'ordre
Divided by all watchwords
Certains finissent par confondre
Some end up confusing
Certains ne peuvent pas répondre
Some can't answer
Bouche sans cri au bout d'une corde
Mouth without cry at the end of a rope
Et plus la pluie et le bon temps
And more rain and good weather
Et l'herbe qui pousse entre-temps
And the grass that grows in the meantime
Plus tous les désobéissants
Plus all the disobedient
Qui ne veulent plus se mettre en rang
Who no longer want to line up
Les enfants sont déjà devant
The children are already ahead
Moins ceux qui sont encore à naître
Minus those who are yet to be born
Plus l'inconnu dans la fenêtre
No more stranger in the window
Et plus l'amour de quelques-uns
And more the love of a few
Et plus ou moins de quelques-unes
And more or less than a few
Je pose tout, je retiens une égale
I put everything down, I keep an equal
Égale un homme en équilibre sur trois vers
Equals a man balanced on three worms
De Prévert mais ce sont des vers libres
By Prévert but these are free verses
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