When the blackbird in the Spring,
On the willow tree,
Sat and rocked, I heard him sing,
Singing Aura Lea.

Aura Lea, Aura Lea,
Maid with golden hair;
Sunshine came along with thee,
And swallows in the air.

In thy blush the rose was born,
Music, when you spake,
Through thine azure eye the morn,
Sparkling seemed to break.

Aura Lea, Aura Lea,
Birds of crimson wing,
Never song have sung to me,
As in that sweet spring.

Swing through winter fitfully,
On the stormy air.

Yet if thy blue eyes I see,
Gloom will soon depart;
For to me, sweet Aura Lea
Is sunshine through the heart.

When the mistletoe was green,
Midst the winter's snows,
Sunshine in thy face was seen,
Kissing lips of rose.

Aura Lea, Aura Lea,
Take my golden ring;
Love and light return with thee,
And swallows with the spring.

FR:

Quand le merle au printemps
Sur le saule pleureur
S’assit et se balança, je l’entendis chanter,
Il chantait Aura Lea Aura Lea Aura Lea
Demoiselle aux cheveux d’or
Le soleil arriva avec vous
Et les hirondelles volaient
La rose naquit en rougissant
La musique quand vous parliez
Dans ton œil d’azur
Le matin étincelant sembla se lever.

Aura Lea Aura Lea Aura Lea
Les oiseaux aux ailes écarlates
N’ont jamais chanté comme
En ce doux printemps
Aura Lea Aura Lea Aura Lea
Tangue dans l’air turbulant d’hiver.

Mais si je vois tes yeux bleus
Mon cafard partira bientôt
Car pour moi douce Aura Lea
Est le soleil qui transperce le cœur

Aura Lea Aura Lea Aura Lea
Quand le gui était vert
Parmi les neiges d’hiver
On voyait le soleil sur ton visage
Embrasser les lèvres roses.

Aura Lea Aura Lea Aura Lea
Prenez mon anneau d’or
L’amour et la lumière reviennent avec vous

You’ve got beautiful shades, but it’s a real shame
That I can’t quite make out your eyes behind them
Well this is such a beautiful place, even if it’s kind of strange
Did you notice how the people here are rather queer?
They’ve got supercilious smiles on their faces

You’ve got beautiful eyes; I saw them from the very first
But I can’t quite make out the dreams inside them
Well this was such a strange mistake

With no one there to calculate it
Ade was saying that through this mist an end was kissed

And all the songs inside came a cryin’ down

These walls surround me white; this machine counts heartbeats day and night
This mask makes a real good shield for my eyes
And these things that I take well, they really do inebriate
It’s amazing now what you can get, you just swallow it down
it makes you forget all and everything

You’ve got beautiful lips, but it’s a real shame
That I can’t quite reach out to truly kiss them
Well this is such a beautiful place, even if it’s kind of strange
Did you notice how the people here are rather queer?
They’ve got supercilious smiles on their faces

These walls surround me white and this machine counts heartbeats day and night
This mask makes a real good shield for my eyes
And these things that I take well, they really do inebriate
It’s amazing now what you can get ,you just swallow it down
it makes you forget

it makes you forget
it makes you forget

It’s amazing now what you can get

You just swallow it down; it makes you forget

It’s amazing now what you can get

You just swallow it down,

It makes you forget all and everything

FR:
Quand mes pensées vont parfois,
Vers des lieux distants

Là ou j’étais autrefois

Je vois palpitant


paraître un pays au-delà du grand océan

paraître des bribes de joie,

de tendresse
je ne pourrai oublier les couleurs,

le vent
les gens, la sérénité,

le
bonheur présent
là-bas
je pouvais ralentir le tempo le temps

je chantais à en ravir la paresse

comme autrefois,

comme autrefois
en douceur

rechercher la cadence
comme autrefois,

comme autrefois
lentement pour trouver résonance



si mon passé quelques fois m’est si apaisant

c’est qu’il recèle l’émoi d’un ailleurs distant


là-bas je savais que l’on peut sourire autrement


je chantais fou de joie, de tristesse



comme autrefois, comme autrefois

en douceur rechercher la cadence
comme autrefois,

comme autrefois
lentement pour trouver résonance

ENG:
When my thoughts go sometimes
To distant places
Where I once was
I see a land
a land beyond the great ocean
brief glimpses of joy, of tenderness
I can't forget the colors, the wind
the people, the serenity, the happiness of the moment
over there I could slow down the tempo of time
I would sing to the joy of idleness

as in days gone by, as in days gone by
gently in search of the cadence
as in days gone by, as in days gone by
slowly to find resonance


if my past is sometimes so soothing to me
it's because it conceals the stirrings of a distant elsewhere
there I knew that one could in a different way
i would sing crazy with joy, with sadness

as in days gone by, as in days gone by
gently in search of the cadence
as in days gone by, as in days gone by
slowly to find resonance