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 sees from beneath his fingers

The colours of the day being born

And who doesn't return.

And if you didn't exist

Tell me for whom I should exist

Passing girls, asleep in my arms

That I would never love

And if you didn't exist

I wouldn't be but 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

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 gaze 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 sees from beneath his fingers

The colours of the day being born

And who doesn't return.

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