Claude Nougaro - L'enfant phare - translation of the lyrics into English

Lyrics and translation Claude Nougaro - L'enfant phare




L'enfant phare
The Child Lighthouse
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il l'enfant?
Where is he the child?
est-il l'enfant?
Where is he the child?
L'enfant, l'enfant phare
The child, the child lighthouse
Qui débarque en fan
Who unloads as a fan
En fan, en fanfare
As a fan, as a fanfare
est-il l'enfant?
Where is he the child?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il?
Where is he?
Sur une île ici-bas?
On an island here below?
Sur une aile ici-haut
On a wing here above
Marche-t-il sur les eaux
Does he walk on the waters
Les os des vieux combats
The bones of the old battles
est-il?
Where is he?
Chevauche-t-il une licorne
Does he straddle a unicorn
En criant hou hou hou
By shouting hoo hoo hoo
Et en faisant les cornes
And by making horns
Aux méchants loups-garous?
To the bad werewolves?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il l'enfant?
Where is he the child?
L'enfant, l'enfant phare
The child, the child lighthouse
Qui débarque en fan
Who unloads as a fan
En fan, en fanfare
As a fan, as a fanfare
est-il l'enfant?
Where is he the child?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il?
Where is he?
Est-il déjà né?
Has he already been born?
encore enfermé
Where still locked up
Dans le ventre d'une mère
Inside of the womb of a mother
Du prochain millénaire
Of the next millennium
est-il?
Where is he?
Dans quelle stratosphère
In which stratosphere
Quel fil d'éternité
Which string of eternity
En attendant, que faire
In the meantime, what to do
Que nous l'ayons mérité?
That we have deserved him?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il l'enfant?
Where is he the child?
est-il l'enfant?
Where is he the child?
L'enfant, l'enfant phare
The child, the child lighthouse
Qui débarque en fan
Who unloads as a fan
En fan, en fanfare
As a fan, as a fanfare
est-il l'enfant?
Where is he the child?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il?
Where is he?
L'enfant qui chante
The child who sings
Les fameux lendemains
The famous tomorrows
L'enfant qui enfante
The child who gives birth
Un nouveau genre humain
A new kind of human
est-il?
Where is he?
L'enfant qui tue
The child who kills
L'enfant qui tue le vieil homme
The child who kills the old man
Et qui reconstitue
And who recreates
Le paradis, la pomme
The paradise, the apple
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il l'enfant?
Where is he the child?
L'enfant phare
The child lighthouse
L'enfant phare
The child lighthouse
est-il l'enfant?
Where is he the child?
est-il?
Where is he?
est-il?
Where is he?





Writer(s): Claude Nougaro, Eddy Louiss


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