Et si tu n'existais pas [English translation]

And if you didn't exist


Tell me why I should exist


To drag along in a world without you


Without hope and without regret


And if you didn't exist


I would try to invent love


As a painter who cannot believe his eyes when he sees the colors of the day being born under his fingers

And if you didn't exist


Tell me for whom I would exist


Passing girls, asleep in my arms


That I would never love


And if you didn't exist


I would be just another dot


in this world, which comes and goes


I would feel lost


I would need you

And if you didn't exist


Tell me how I would
exist

I could pretend to be me


But it wouldn't be true


And if you didn't exist


I think that I would have found


The secret of life, the reason why


Just to create you


And to look at you

And if you didn't exist


Tell me why I should exist


To drag along in a world without you


Without hope and without regret


And if you didn't exist


I would try to invent love


As a painter who cannot believe his eyes…

• Artist:Joe Dassin
• Album:Joe Dassin (1975)