Ce qui me manque [English translation]

It's not to know

The time it is in Peking

Nor to learn if she is

Or not with someone

It's not to spy

A hotel room

Whomever referred to me as

A property of hers

All the nights

All my life...

What I need,

It's the tears on my cheeks

What I need,

Is her breath on my neck

What I need,

it's when she'd tell me "us"...

No bank

Will reimburse this jewelry

I am in need

Even to the point of going mad over it

What haunts me,

Is seeing her nailed

The acrobat [1]...

I don't imagine,

where she lives or where she sleeps

If she walks the same path as

Ancient beggars of gold

I don't wish to know

if she is somber and proud

As are most

in passing the frontier...

All the nights,

All my life...