Il est où le bonheur ? [English translation]

Where is the happiness, where is it?

Where is it?

Where is the happiness, where is it?

Where is it?

I've made love, I've played in the streets

I waited to be happy

I've sung songs, I've made children

I've done my best

I've pouted, I've pretended

You do what you can

I've fooled around, it's true; I've partied, yeah!

I thought I was happy

But, there are all these nights without mates

When no one rings, or comes

It's Sunday night, in the fleet

Like a fool in his bath

Trying to drown it, but it floats

This fucking sorrow

So I sing my most beautiful notes

And it will be better tomorrow

Where is the happiness, where is it?

Where is it?

Where is the happiness, where is it?

Where is it?

The happiness is there, it is there!

It is there!

The happiness is there, It is there!

It is there!

I've courted, I've made my circus

I'm waiting to be happy

I've played the clown, it's true I've done nothing

But that went no better

I've done well, I've made mistakes

You do what you can

I've been foolish, I've had some crazy laughs, yeah

I thought I was happy

But there are all these Christmas eves, where they smile politely

to protect you from the cruel life

All this laughter of children

And these empty chairs that remind us

What life brings us

So, I sing to myself my most beautiful notes

It was better before

Where is the happiness, where is it?

Where is it?

Where is the happiness, where is it?

Where is it?

The happiness is there, it is there!

It is there!

Where is the happiness, it is there!

It is there!

It is a candle, the happiness

Don't laugh too hard by the way

You risk putting it out

You want the happiness, yeah, you want it!

Everyone wants to achieve it

But it doesn't make a noise, happiness, no, it makes no noise

No, it makes none of it

Happiness is stupid, yeah, because it's often afterwards you realise

That it was there

Where is the happiness, where is it?

Where is it?

Where is the happiness, where is it?

Where is it?

The happiness is there, it is there!

It is there!

Where is the happiness, it is there!

It is there!

But, where is the happiness?

Where is the happiness?

Where is it?

Where is it?

But, where is the happiness?

But it is there!

The happiness, it is there, it is there

And it is there!

The happiness, it is there, it is there

• Artist:Christophe Maé