Pas le temps de vivre [English translation]

There are times when

Shades vanish ;

Pain stops.

There are times when,

While the being is invincible, 1

Leprosy bows down

But if could have noticed that I one day

Will be the one you haunt ;

That I would need your breath

So as to defeat doubt ;

So as to imprison my solitude.

There are times when

Notes leave ;

Tears disappear.

There are times when,

While the moon is like so wan,

The being is monastic 2

But I rove like a light

Turned off by the wind.

My nights are with no eyelids anymore

So as to ease one by one

My fears of being only one person.

I have no time to live

When my balance flies away

I have no time to live

Love me, get into me

Tell me the words making one delirious

Tell me that the night disguises

See, I am as the sea

Drawing back after being

Unable to find your track

There are times when

My thoughts are like so weak ;

A marble with no veins.

There are times when

We no longer belong to the Earth

A mere shadow of our former self 3

Tell me which key I need

So as to come across your star.

I would need your hand

So as to ease one by one

My fears of being only one person.

1. "S'invincibler" is a neologism2. "Se monacaler" is a neologism3. "L'ombre de son ombre" is an expression meaning that we no longer recognise ourselves, that we are different.