Voilà pourquoi je chante [English translation]

And here is my heart between two parentheses

For a fragile happiness that you lent me

And that I will return to you embellished if possible

With some easy-to-forget memories

When one writes love on the sand on holiday

It should be known that one day the rain will erase it

It is taking miserable risks with our souls

To believe that the sun is less vulnerable than us

Here is why I sing, here is why I love you

Here is why my life is in need of your life

In all the departing trains I let you leave

Nothing is ever too grave, nothing is ever serious

It is necessary that I learn how to love you in the present

It is necessary that I believe all

Even your silences

And the insolent calm of your childish glances

Here is why I sing, here is why I love you

Here is why my life is in need of your life

Life, life is insane, it is sweet, it is nothing

The perfumes of vanilla, the gardens of other times

When one stops a little at the edge of their childhood

One believes in ways that one had to forget

But I always keep at the bottom of my memory

The vague and quiet odor of a grand summer morning

Here is why I sing, here is why I love you

Here is why my life needs your life

If I fought upright against the shadows

And hid in the night to choke my voice

Cheers and tears will be my reward

For a curtain which falls, another which rises

Tomorrow and in a thousand years I will begin again

Here is why I sing, here is why I love you

Here is why my life is in need of your life