Et si tu n'existais pas [English translation]

And if you didn't exist

Tell me, why would I exist?

To linger in a world without you

Without hope or regret

And if you didn't exist

I would try to invent love

Like a painter, marvelling at the colours of day

Born under his fingers

And if you didn't exist

Tell me, who should I exist for?

The passers-by asleep in my arms

That I could never love?

And if you didn't exist

I would be but one more dot

In this world that comes and goes

I would feel lost

I would need you

And if you didn't exist

Tell me, how could I exist?

I could pretend to be myself

But I wouldn't be true

And if you didn't exist

I believe I would find

The secret of life, the 'why'

Just to create you

And to look at you

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