Et si tu n'existais pas [English translation]

And if you didn't exist (were not alive)

Tell me, why should I [exist]

To roam in world without you

Without hope [and] without regret

And if you didn't exist

I would try to invent love

Like a painter, who sees, from beneath his fingers,

the day's colours being born

and wonders about them

And if you didn't exist

Tell me, why should I [exist]

Passing girls, asleep in my arms

That I would never love

And if you didn't exist

I would only be one other 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

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 WHY

Only to create you

And to look at you

And if you didn't exist

Tell me why should I [exist]

To roam in a world without you

Without hope, [and] without regret

And if you didn't exixt

I would try to invent love

Like a painter who sees, beneath his fingers

The day's colours being born

and wonders about them

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