Aux encres des amours [English translation]

You say flee and I follow you

I say follow me and I flee from you

If this story ends here

Yes our melancholy love

Before the door of farewells

I sigh and you’re all smiles

In secret, my smitten heart,

Make love to me without a word

You would say “protect yourself”

Our dramas are veering

towards the tragic

If love is an opera

It’s because it must stay comical

No more blissful inanities

To show how much we’re in love

Obligatory smiles unfolding

There’s too much love in the “I love you”s

In the ink of our love

The ships are torn up

We believe that we’ll always be in love

Before seeing the other one leave

Before seeing the other one flee

In the arms of another ship

My love, you know I tried to escape

My love, I love you to death

You say flee and I follow you

I say follow me and I flee from you

If our destinies part here

Yes, our melancholy smiles

If this is our last tango

If this is our last sigh

Then if it’s our last word

Make love to me but tell me

You would say “protect yourself”

There are knives in our smiles

If love is an opera

If to conjugate is to write

What will be left of the imperfect?

Of our presents, of our futures?

Beneath the Pont-Neuf are the bodies of those

Who sought out an adventure

When she hurled the sentence at me

I think I didn’t really understand

My heartbeats in long silences

Our breathing suspended

Written in the ink of our love

There are razors on the velvet

Which, beneath the folds of tenderness,

Remind us of those who leave us

In the ink of our love

But our love has spilled the ink

We believe we’ll always be in love

But always in commiseration

We’ll write about the final travels

Of those who have seen themselves there, too large

Of this ship bloating the list

Of those disappeared in the ocean

In the ink of our love

The ships are torn up

We believe that we’ll always be in in love

Before seeing the other one leave

Before seeing the other one flee

In the arms of another ship

My love, you know I tried to escape

My love, I love you to death

My love, I beg you,

come back to me

You know how to make my eyes into tears

Then my heart’s said too much

Then if love is a burden

You say flee and I follow you

And I’m sad without you

And I’m the sad corpse

All alone in my opera

Go on, kill me, my love

Go on, kill me, let us finish this

Plunge the knife into the velvet

Go on, abuse me

Leave me dying upon the ground

Then if we need to render

love insane

Leave me, dead drunk on love

For us to be in love like on

the last day

Go on, kill me, my love

Go on, kill me, let us finish this

Plunge the knife into the velvet

Go on, abuse me

Leave me dying upon the ground

Yes my love, go on, kill me

Yes my love, go on, kill me

Go on, kill me!