Mon frère [English translation]

You the brother i've never had

Do you know that if you had lived

What we would have done together ?

One year after me you'd be born

Then we'd never left each other

like friends who look like

we'd have learnt slang by heart

I would have been your teacher

At my truant play*

Sure that one day we'd have fought

If we'd have then known*

Both the same young girl*

But you're not here

Who's to blame ?

Not my father

Not my mother

You could have sung that

You the brother i never had

If you knew what ( how much) i've drink*

From my solitary sorrows

if you didn't stand me up*

You'd have finished my songs

I'd teached you to make some

If life had better behaved herself*

She'd have divided in two

Glove pairs, slap pairs

She'd surely have shared

love words and paves

Girls and bludgeon hits

You the brother i'll never have

I'm less alone to have made you

For one moment, for one girl

I disturbed you, forgive me

Here when everything abandons you

one makes himself a family

• Artist:Maxime Le Forestier
• Album:Mon frère (1972)