J't'imagine [English translation]

For so long, I've been imagining

you, covers of magazines

or all the words within...

Saw you, one night, go out

of a music-hall

show, like Diane Keaton in Annie Hall

I imagine you, imagine...

I forget my dreams

though, after every night

Yet the grey halo of your eyes

remains stuck on my hair

like those Chrisrmas postcards

I used to paint with watercolour..

I imagine you, I imagine

you in your black jogging-leggings

Saw you get out of a taxi the other morning..

At the station, was that look yours ?

over a mock-panther

printed silk neck scarf ?

I imagine you, imagine...

so many towns are reflected within your eyes

and all these wet pavements

with their shy travellers...

Rather than a small ad in Libération

like a balloon's dream

I send you my song...

I imagine you, imagine...