Quand je ne chante pas [English translation]

When I don't sing

I'm like you

I'm like that

When I don't sing

I'm like you

I'm like that

A wife, a mother

A woman that must know how to do everything

When I don't sing

My life connects to the Earth

Even if the sky laughs at me

Singing is all I know how to do

I walk on the street

I settle down on the terraces

I'll cross the unknown

It made a place

I'll listen to their stories

It knows mine

On a single look

Our lives are all the same

Leaving school

Our children, who come

But all their words fly

And their laughing sounds silent

When the echo of silence

Is your only ally

It's the enemy who dances

During your weeping

When I don't sing

I'm like you

I'm like that

A wife, a mother

A woman that must know how to do everything

When I don't sing

My life connects to the Earth

Even if the sky laughs at me

Singing is all I know how to do

Sing

Under a bright light

Sing

When we are made for that

Reveal your soul, nothing else

You must keep your faith

Our hearts, one against the other

Find in this life

All our little happinesses

But is that enough

To make the hours pass?

When I don't sing

I'm like you

I'm like that

A wife, a mother

A woman that must know how to do everything

When I don't sing

My life connects to the Earth

Even if the sky laughs at me

Singing is all I know how to do

When I don't sing

I'm like you

I'm like that

A mistress, a friend

A woman with a thousand and one lives

When I don't sing

Of course

Dawn rises anyway

Sometimes it's not that

I often am not myself any more

I'm not myself any more

I'm not myself any more

I'm not myself

When I don't sing

I whisper ancient prayers

Which take me straight

To the only choice I know how to make

Sing under a bright light

Sing under a bright light

(When I don't sing I'm like you)

(When I don't sing I'm like you)

(When I don't sing I'm like you)

(When I don't sing I'm like you)