Au début [English translation]

Can we start over again

Drink once more the wine we drunk before?

I’d like for us to fall back to sleep

On a memory-foam bed

And for us to wake up the same.

Can we pick up again as if nothing happened

Like at the dog-eared page of the book

That we’d closed the night before

Fighting against sleep?

Do we hang on until the last word?

I know full well that existence

Like water, only flows one way

But would you kiss again, like that kiss

Offered as much as stolen before?

Can we start back at the source,1

Place stones to change its course

To irrigate fresh fields

Go and find out what could flower

Plants along the riverbanks, all new

I know that the incandescence

Of hearts is by nature fragile

But would you kiss again, like that kiss

Offered as much as stolen, feverishly?

Can we start over again?

Can we start over again?

1. Source, as in source of a river, or 'spring'. Conveniently they're the same word in French