Je t'aimais, je t'aime, je t'aimerai [English translation]

My naked child on the pebbles

The wind in your undone hair

Like a spring on my path

A diamond fallen from a box

Only the light could

Unravel our hidden shelters

Where, with my fingers wrapping your wrists

I loved you, I love you, and I will love you

And whatever you do

Love is everywhere you look

In every corner of space

In every dream you linger in

Love pouring like rain

Naked on the pebbles

The sky pretends he knows you

He’s so beautiful, it must be true

He who never comes close

I saw him caught in your nets

The world is so filled with regrets

So many promises we make

Only one for which I was made

I loved you, I love you, and I will love you

And whatever you do

Love is everywhere you look

In every corner of space

In every dream you linger in

Love pouring like rain

Naked on the pebbles

We’ll take off from the same platform

Our eyes in the same reflections

In this life and the one after that

You will be my only plan

I will go hang your portraits

On all the ceilings of all the palaces

On every wall I will find

And just below them, I will write

That only the light could…

And my fingers wrapping your wrists

I loved you, I love you, and I will love you

• Artist:Francis Cabrel
• Album:Samedi soir sur la Terre (1994)