La métaphore [English translation]

If you were like a grass

I would be a weed

Against you I would come

All my life l would live from it

If you were like the earth

I would be down to earth

I would sow you

I would harvest you

Let me dream again

I need to imagine

Are you the girl, the child of the movement

Come I beg you my soul is on the teeth 1

If you were like a leaf

I would be a wallet 2

And I would hold you

In my little notebook

If you were like the sand

I would gather all the sand

To my home I’d carry it

Gently, I’d sift it

Refrain

If you were like a tree

I would would go from tree to tree

I would go wrap myself around hips

Under the cover of your branches

If you were like a women

I would make your flower flee your soul (??)

I would make you rock of sand

I would make you lock earth woman (??)

Refrain

If you were like a woman

I would never have another woman

Let me rather dream

I need to imagine

1. être sur les dents - to be worn out OR to be on edge/on the lookout2. portefeulle = leaf holder = wallet

• Artist:Jacques Dutronc