On ne vit pas sans se dire adieu [English translation]

We don't live without saying goodbye

We don't live without diying a bit

Without quitting to go further

On our way something or someone

I've come to say goodbye to you

A souvenir dies always a bit

I wanted to know, what is left to me

From the only love, who should be able to count

I've come to say goodbye to you

Or if you want, goodbye to both of us

Like that day, when you made me cry

Having said goodbye to me forever

Oh it wasn't your fault, I know that

I know everithing what was going to happen, go

Your father and everithing he could tell you

Your studies to finish, your service, your future

And then this girl is not for you

Today you are the other one

Everithing's good what finishes well, when

But what could I do to love you

I was sixteen, only sixteen

We don't live without saying goodbye

We don't live without diying a bit

I wanted to stop the time

The time to say, farewell my sixteen years

I wanted to say, farewell my sixteen years

Before leaving, towards what he's waiting for me

• Artist:Mireille Mathieu