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title: "Between the Paper's Slice (Entre les tranches de papier)"
url: 'https://van-helden.net/en/songs/entre-les-tranches-de-papier'
markdown: 'https://van-helden.net/en/songs/entre-les-tranches-de-papier.md'
lang: en
date: '2024-12-17'
description: 'Daydreaming along the margins of notebooks.'
---

# Between the Paper's Slice (Entre les tranches de papier)

Between the slices of paper lies another time, torn apart, a place without hours: along the margins of school notebooks, doodled clocks count down flaming seconds. On a spotless page of time, the singer slips the one he loves to freeze the moment and keep the charm a little longer, unplugging the alarm of a love already defused. There was no kiss, no folly, and still the other wipes away his tears.

## English version

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English

Entre les tranches de papier
Un autre temps, écartelé
Un lieu sans heure, en filigrane
Le long des marges des cahiers
Des pendules carricaturées
Détaillent les secondes en flamme

Between the paper's slice
A time torn, so precise
A place where hours wane
By notebook margins tight
Clocks drawn in playful light
Flaming seconds remain

Une page de temps immaculée
Où je te glisse pour te figer
Pour vivre encore un peu le charme
N’entendre pas le gong sonner
De nos amours désamorcées
Débrancher le signal d’alarme

A page of time so pure
Where I place you, secure
To relive charm's old spell
Not hearing the gong's toll
For our love's lost patrol
Turn off the warning bell

Mais s’il n’y a pas eu de baiser
Pas de folie, de possédé
Tu n’en essuies pas moins mes larmes

But if no kiss was shared
No madness, none ensnared
You still wipe tears that swell.

French lyrics by Cécile Michel

Music by Olivier van Helden

English lyrics by Olivier van Helden

All rights reserved © somewhere between 1987 and 1993?

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