Madame [English translation]

As I am getting home I just received

Your blue letter, Madame

Twenty times I have reread it, and my eye still cannot believe it

Yet it is written there, Madame

And of your pain I feel penetrated

Still, I will not be able to do anything about it, Madame

You know, as we speak, to have lost him

Is a heavy burden to bear.

You ask to be forgiven for you did not understand

What was the love we had, Madame

You just had that son, you were affraid for him

And you kept him for yourself, Madame

Do not ask me what has been my life

When you took him away from me, Madame

I have always kept silent and it is not today

That I will tell you all about it, Madame

You would have prefered, and that is where I recognize you,

That he had died like a hero, Madame

It would have been much more noble, I believe you,

Than dying from love, Madame

Still, he would have died here or he would have died overthere

Would you have shed less tears?

He decided by himself, and only him had the right to do so

You have to resign yourself, Madame

It is too late, now, for me to get back closer to you

And you will get old by yourself, Madame

And forgive me if I seem cruel

But I loved him too much, Madame

For at the end of the day, close by the fire

We evoke memories together, Madame

Of the one that, you and I, have adored

And both together have lost, Madame

But sorrow is misleading me, you have to forgive me

I feel hurt from your pain, Madame

But what to do, and what to say, since he is gone?

I cannot do anything for you, Madame

For a second time, he will tear us apart

No, I will not be back, Madame

Since, to lose him twice, is too much of a burden to bear

You will have to understand me well, Madame

I just received, as I am getting home

Your blue letter, Madame

Twenty times I have reread it, and my eyes still cannot believe it

Yet it is written there, Madame

And of your pain I feel penetrated

Still, I will not be able to do anything about it, Madame

You know, as we speak, to have lost him

Is a heavy burden to bear, Madame...