Te manquer [English translation]

I'll leave one evening when you will still love me

I will be gone from here to rekindle the fire

To remember and draw the outlines of your body

I will leave for the pleasure of playing too

Miss me, miss me,

I would like you to miss me

I will keep for you the sweetest quiet

I will remain untraceable and mute for days

I will turn my voice into the echo of my absence

And all this love into a perfect feeling1

Yeah, miss me, miss me,

I would like you to miss me

I will invent a voluntary exile away from you,

but I'll break my solitude with small things,

a few verses or the wood of a century old tree

that the warmth of the South will have put in my hands

Yeah, miss me, miss me,

I would like you to miss me

I will be the stranger walking by outside your window

I will be the stranger met by chance on a path

I will be the danger you might be in

I will have become your whole desire

Miss me, miss me,

I would like you to miss me

Then I will go back, when I'll be sure

you would not stand missing me any longer

You will open your arms to me and I swear

you will find back everything you liked

I will say again the words that made you smile

and I will look at you like for the first time.

I will dance again in your bursts of laughter,

and yes, I will become a mystery again sometimes

Miss me, miss me,

I would like you to miss me

Miss me, miss me,

I would like you to miss me

1. should be "et de tout..." in proper French. Hopefully it's just a transcription error