L'amour m'a tué [English translation]

Would I ever have the guts

To return to the battle

I still have some blood left

Under my fingernails, I think

That it’ll take much more time

To forget someone like you

Washing, even scrubbing

Doesn’t get the bloodstains out

Why must it always be such a nightmare?

Is this what it’s like to die?

I’d heard you snap your fingers

And sure enough I’d crawled back to you

I was always standing to attention

When you inspected my body

I have this love bite stuck on my neck

Like a sign of remorse

But to think of something else

Perhaps I should break my arm

I know love has killed more people

That a whole century of cholera

I’ve seen thousands of them die

And today it’s my turn

Thank you for wearing kid gloves

To tell me that you didn’t love me

I found it so charming

The compassion that accompanied your voice

The crime is always more elegant

When the killer is highly skilled

And you move away, and you move away

And I do nothing about it

One rarely wins

By behaving like a cretin

I should have run after you

Thrown myself at your feet

There’s no more self-respect

Love has killed me

I won’t fling at your suitcases

All the reproaches in the world

The room is in silence, my sweet

Not a sound in my cemetery

Yes, I should have held you back

With what I did not have

With diamonds or menhirs

You see I’ll say anything

Just to go on a little further

To fall from a bit higher

I lost you like a cretin

Like I told you earlier

And behind the glass

I see all of our plans

Losing blood by the liter

Dying in their incubators

The nurses' white uniforms

Have never excited me

They can go and mix up the names

Besides, babies are all ugly

• Artist:Cali
• Album:Vernet-les-Bains