À Ma Fille

I know that one day will come
For life commands it
That day I dread
When you will leave us
I know that one day will come
Sad and lonely
Supporting your mother
And dragging my steps
I will come back home
To a deserted home
I will come back home
Where you will not be

You will not see anything of the things in my heart
Your eyes will be filled with joy and happiness
And I will have a grimace that you do not know
That seems to be a moved smile but is not
Silencing my pain proudly at your side
I will guide your steps no matter what I think or say
In the solemnity of a peaceful church
To give yourself to the man of your choice
Who will undress you of the name that is ours
To give you another that I do not know

I know that one day will come
You will reach that age
Where cages are forced
Having found your way
I know that one day will come
Age will have blossomed you
And the dawn of your life
Will rise elsewhere
And alone with your mother
Day and night
Summer and winter
We will feel a little cold

And he who knows nothing of the pain we have endured
He who will have done nothing to mature your years
He who will come to steal what I fear the most
Our share of the past our share of happiness
This stranger without name without face how much
I hate him, yet if he must make you happy
I will have no hateful thoughts towards him
But I will offer him my heart with your hand
I will do all this knowing that you love him
Simply because I love you the day he comes