French song appreciation - Un enfant assis attend la pluie

Описание: Today we listen to a song by singer song writer Daniel Balavoine: "Un enfant assis attend la pluie". For the full, uninterrupted song:    • Un enfant assis attend la pluie  

Another song on the same theme, mentioned in the video.
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French lyrics

La braise cachée de cendre est en vie
Comme la fleur
Éblouie
Timidement sort de l'ortie
L'horizon se déplie

En ouvrant son toit
Le ciel enfante un soleil qui tire
La mémoire de l'oubli
Et les yeux grands ouverts
Délivrés de la nuit
Je sais que quelque part
Un enfant assis
Attend la pluie

L'enfant séché sur le sol d'Erythrée
Les traits tirés
Tire un trait
Sur cette terre aride et ridée
Dont il a hérité

En refermant son toit
Le ciel enterre un soleil qui meurt
Mais la mémoire survit
Et les yeux grands ouverts
Prisonniers de la nuit
Il me reste l'image
De ce corps meurtri
Qui pousse un cri

Entend ce cri
Entend ce cri
Son lit de poussière a besoin de pluie
Fleuve de pierre
De ces yeux lunaires
Ses larmes sèches n'ont pas de prix
Tombe la pluie

English lyrics

The amber under the ash is still alive
Like the flower,
Blinded,
Emerges timidly from the weed
The horizon unfolds

The sky opens its roof
And gives birth to a sun
That brings out a memory
And with eyes wide open
Free of the night
I know that somewhere,
A child is sitting
And waiting for the rain

The child, dry on Eritrean soil
With tired features
Draws a line
On that soil, arid and wrinkled
That he inherited

Closing its roof,
The sky buries a dying sun
But the memory remains
And with eyes wide open
Prisoner of the night
The image remains
Of this battered body
That lets out a cry

Hear this cry
Hear this cry
His dust bed needs rain
River of stone
From his lunar eyes
His dry tears have not price
Let the rain fall