The Seine keeps flowing

Under the Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine

under the Mirabeau Bridge -

Of our loves

and our loves also -

And must I be reminded of them when

I need to remember that

What joy we had forever came with pain

joy always follows sorrow.

The hours chime as night follows day

And when night's bell tolls

Days go by while I stay

the days take their departure -

I alone remain

We’ll wait hands in hands face facing face

As under the

Holding hand in hand,

Bridge of our arms the empty space lets pass

let us sit face to face while

A wave weary of our eternal gaze

underneath the bridge

of our arms pass eternal

The hours chime as night follows day

gazings on such weary waves.

Days go by while I stay

And when nights bell tolls

Love slips away like this water’s flow

the days take their departuure -

It must go

I alone remain

Because life is too slow

And hope is violence and vertigo

Love is flowing fast

away, just as these flowing

The hours chime as night follows day

waters flow away

Days go by while I stay

slow as life itself flows by -

how violent Hope becomes.

Days drag on and weeks drag on

Neither can

And when the night's bell tolls

Time past return nor loves gone

the days take their departure -

Under the Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine

I alone remain

The days passing by,

the weeks passing by - and yet

neither our past time

nor our loves return - under

Mirabeau Bridee flows the Seine -

And when night s bell tolls

the days take their departure -

I alone remain