Je fais semblant [English translation]

I Pretend

The class photo

The pink smile of a girl in front of me

The small malignant air which follows my grimaces

The life which traces

The memories which do not have any place

And the great outdoors which make me drink the cup

The time which passes

I pretend

I play big,

I invent myself dads

The large ones, strong, which I do not resemble

But which gives me the strength to believe in me

I pretend

I tremble with the idea that I am not liked

I tightly hug mom who takes me in her arms

I pretend that nothing will happen to me

Will not happen to me

First shivers

One learns the guitar under the eiderdown

His/her mother does not want ego, it is a little idiot

The nights from go away

And my first history gets into the plane

My tears are interfered with Brazil Milton

First song

I pretend

I play the guy with whom one does not do it

I am absent, it will not return

I embrace lips which I do not know

I make seeming

I take my voice without life with end of arm

I enter doors where I am wanted

That makes smile,

one says that one will remember me

One does not rememberl me

And then one day

Hands are held to offer me love

Voices are linked to guide my turnings

The world around

Those which like me,

the others which count the days

Those which always make me hope

Too much world around

I pretend

I play to believe that I deserve all that

I am trembling,

these people are there for me

I tell them my life

and they see me

I pretend more

I return his life to my voice, with arm's end

That, I wait, must hide there

It must hide well, I do not see it

I do not see it

The first day

I am raised if one pushes me in the court

I am Thierry the Sling, I always gain

And time runs out…

• Artist:Patrick Bruel