THE SUN DIRECTLY OVERHEAD

(Sous le Soleil Exactement)
Translation by Alan Chamberlain & Mick Harvey


A precise point on the Tropic
Of Cancer or of Capricorn
I have since forgotten quite which

The sun directly overhead
No place it doesn't matter where
Under the sun under the sun
Right overhead 
Just hanging there

Some distant land in some district
It was always by the seashore
I have since forgotten quite which

Was it perhaps on the Baltic
Toward Cap verde toward Cape Horn
Could it have been an island triste?

It was a dream most erotic
Which I had there avec mon amour
What if it did really exist?

The sun directly overhead
No place it doesn't matter where
Under the sun under the sun
Right overhead 
Just hanging there