City of love [English translation]

When the dance shall ends

Too late

Everything will then taste like ashes

Hum hum

if only, in the meanwhile on the road

Love arises from nothingness

To have no other vow than otherness

Even for just an instant

Words at the tip of the lips

Are a path toward life

If I abandon myself

I shall build

The city of love...

Oh oh

If I know I have

Both the world and the needesire1

If I have to wait you here

Then I shall build

The city of love

The city of love

The one who doesn't know what fear is

Doesn't know what courage is either

If I am of a good temper

No rage

When advancing in the dark

When I am studying the infinite

I see snowflakes

Of poetry

1. A neologism built by myself, though I suppose others got the idea before me, in an attempt to represent what the word "envie" means here in the original French lyrics