Si tu pars [English translation]

If you leave me,

I want the whole earth to get covered in mist

and silence to settle on the villages.

I want everything to stand still in the cities1 and on the beaches,

so that only the wind can be heard

screaming, crying in understanding.

If you leave me,

I want violins and guitars to be burned,

musicians and poets to be dismissed,

Christmas and all celebrations to be forgotten,

birds to be exiled,

every beautiful thing to be banished.

If you leave me,

I want all the trains in the world

to remain in their stations.

I want roads to be blocked

and frontiers to be closed,

a curfew imposed, the right to wage war established,

laughter2 to be forbidden,

pleasure to be abolished.

If you leave me,

I want roads to be blocked

and frontiers to be closed,

a curfew imposed, the right to wage war established,

laughter to be forbidden,

pleasure to be abolished.

If you leave me,

I want the whole earth to get covered in mist

and silence to settle on the villages.

I want everything to stand still in the cities and on the beaches,

so that only the wind can be heard

screaming, crying in understanding.

If you leave

If you leave

1. I suppose it's "en ville", "en vie" wouldn't make any sense2. I suppose it's "rire", "riff" again makes no sense whatsoever