Et si tu n'existais pas [English translation]

And if you didn’t exist

Tell me why should I exist

For living in a world without you

Without hope and regrets

And if you didn’t exist

I would try to invent love

Like a painter who sees under his fingers

The day’s colours, borne

And that aren’t coming back.

And if you didn’t exist

Tell me why should I exist

Passers-by asleep in my arms

That I won’t never love

And if you didn’t exist

I would be nothing more than 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 make a semblance of me

But I wouldn’t be true

I think that I have found it

The secret of life, the “why”

Just for believing you

And for seeing you.

And if you didn’t exist

Tell me why should I exist

For living in a world without you

Without hope and regrets

And if you didn’t exist

I would try to invent love

Like a painter who sees under his fingers

The day’s colours, borne

And that aren’t coming back.

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