Je l'aime à mourir [English translation]

I was nothing before

And suddenly today

I am the guardian

Of the sleep of her nights

I love her to death

You may destroy

Anything that you please

She will only have

To open her arms

To rebuild everything

To rebuild everything

I love her to death

She has erased the numbers

From the neighborhood clocks

She has turned my life

Into paper birds

And bursts of laughter

She has built bridges

Between us and the sky

And we cross them

Every time she

Doesn't want to sleep

Doesn't want to sleep

I love her to death

She must have fought all the wars

To be so strong today

She must have fought all the wars

Of life, and made all the love as well

She does her best to live out

Her opaline dream

She dances in the midst

Of the forests she draws

I love her to death

She wears ribbons

That she lets fly away

She often sings to me

That I am a fool to try

To catch them

To catch them

I love her to death

To climb up to her cave

Hidden under the roofs

I must nail music notes

To my wooden clogs

I love her to death

I must only sit down

I must not talk

I must not want anything

I must just try

To belong to her

To belong to her

I love her to death

She must have fought all the wars

To be so strong today

She must have fought all the wars

Of life, and made all the love as well

I was nothing before

And suddenly today

I am the guardian

Of the sleep of her nights

I love her to death

You may destroy

Anything that you please

She will only have

To open her arms

To rebuild everything

To rebuild everything

I love her to death

• Artist:Francis Cabrel
• Album:Les Chemins de traverse (1979)