French Poem translation (for school)
Just posting this here for my group to see it.. Since I don't use facebook
Not getting the line "comme un soldat au garde à vous elle solde en avant sa poitrine" (second line in first stanza)
A battalion of passerbys are window shopping
Like a soldier paying attention to what he's sold in front of his chest
She lights a cigarette, smoke spewing in her eyes
It attracts enemies, but only the ones who see fire
She also likes the rain, the mascara running down her firey cheeks
Playing with.. Fire! Again a fool who fires her shot
Keeps her lips closed for her only sacred secret
The memory of a mass and a promise of eternal love
Her life is like the bloody foam from which Venus was born
That one loves the time during a hug but then leaves
Tired of being caught... she murmurs that she finds herself
in the threshold on the night in mourning of a dying loved one
Making sweet dreams at night, girl of the streets
She fled in her sleep, quietly... half naked
Making sweet dreams at night, girl of the streets
And always the same dream... to leave the avenue
Not getting the line "comme un soldat au garde à vous elle solde en avant sa poitrine" (second line in first stanza)
A battalion of passerbys are window shopping
Like a soldier paying attention to what he's sold in front of his chest
She lights a cigarette, smoke spewing in her eyes
It attracts enemies, but only the ones who see fire
She also likes the rain, the mascara running down her firey cheeks
Playing with.. Fire! Again a fool who fires her shot
Keeps her lips closed for her only sacred secret
The memory of a mass and a promise of eternal love
Her life is like the bloody foam from which Venus was born
That one loves the time during a hug but then leaves
Tired of being caught... she murmurs that she finds herself
in the threshold on the night in mourning of a dying loved one
Making sweet dreams at night, girl of the streets
She fled in her sleep, quietly... half naked
Making sweet dreams at night, girl of the streets
And always the same dream... to leave the avenue