Ma solitude [English translation]

In so much as to have slept

With my loneliness

It has become my closest friend

My own kind of happiness

It is never far away

No shadow is so close

We never are apart

No matter where I go.

No, I never am alone

With my loneliness.

When in the shadow of my bed

It takes the entire space

The lonely nights that we have spent

Together, face to face

I cannot say just how far

It will go with me

Will I have to decide

To accept, or set it free?

No, I never am alone

With my loneliness.

And when my feeble life is o'er

Then and there it shall be free

But until then it will remain

A very special part of me

And should I prefer the love

Of another courtiere

Still we'll never be apart

But forever as we were.

No, I never am alone

With my loneliness.

No, I never am alone

With my loneliness.

• Artist:Georges Moustaki