Avant que l'ombre... [English translation]

Roughness of sounds

Turbulent winds

Recollection...

It forgets me, it runs away from me

Jesus! I am afraid

Jesus! Of time...

Which reminds me

Of faded dreams,

Of forgotten worlds, oh

Jesus! I am afraid

Of suffering...

Of sleepless nights

Incomplete memory,

That does not know... what it is born out of

Jesus! I'm afraid

Oh! Jesus! My Lord!

Is it my fault?

Just because I thought my soul

Is an impenetrable sanctuary

Jesus! I am afraid

Jesus! I am dying to

Burn out the mark

So that the past is only the past

Before the shade, I know

Collapses upon my feet1

So that I can see in the other-world

I know... I know... that I have loved

Before the shade, embarassed

Collapses upon my feet

So that I can see in the other-world

I know that I have loved... I know that...

1. Metaphor accounting for "Before I die"

• Artist:Mylène Farmer
• Album:Avant que l'ombre (2005)