On n'oublie rien [English translation]

We don't forget anything,

We don't forget anything at all

We don't forget anything,

We simply get used to it

Neither those departures nor those ships,

Nor those journeys that keel us over

From landscape to landscape,

And from face to face

Neither all those harbours nor all those bars,

Nor all those blues catches

Where we wait for the gray morning,

In the cinema of our whiskey glasses

Neither all of this nor anything else in this world

Could make us forget,

Would manage to make us forget

That as truly as the Earth is round,

We don't forget anything,

We don't forget anything at all

We don't forget anything,

We simply get used to it

Neither those 'never's nor those 'always's,

Neither those 'I love you's nor those loves

Which we pursue through many hearts,

From gray to gray, from cries to cries

Neither those white arms of a single night,

A womanly necklace for our boredom

Which we undo at daybreak

When we promise to come back

Neither all of this nor anything else in this world

Could make us forget,

Would manage to make us forget

That as truly as the Earth is round,

We don't forget anything,

We don't forget anything at all

We don't forget anything,

We simply get used to it

Not even that time when I would have turned

My regrets into a thousand songs,

Not even that time when my souvenirs

Will falsely assume the lines on my face to be a smile

Neither that great bed where my remorse

Has a rendez-vous with death,

Neither that great bed which I wish, on some days,

To be a party

Neither all of this nor anything else in this world

Could make us forget,

Would manage to make us forget

That as truly as the Earth is round,

We don't forget anything,

We don't forget anything at all

We don't forget anything,

We simply get used to it