Panne de mélancolie [English translation]

I who have always written page after page for songs about rain

Packed, unpacked my baggage a hundred times to find a shelter

Tonight my pen is sullen, there is nothing to get out of it

It preferred it when I was alone, easier to nag

Happiness is rather superb, but how is it spelt

I have been to bars and bars, like a cursed poet

Since the evening when you brightened up my life

I think I’m having a melancholic breakdown

I tried, I tried, I tried to write a song to cry

To be jealous in my verses

To make silly jokes about myself in the movies

I would have loved, so much have loved to run in the rain of regrets

To imagine that it was our last kiss

I would have loved to but I love you too much to do so

If you left me just for a week, just to come back a little

I would be able to send you “I love you’s” which make you cry

I could walk the length of dunes by telling myself that it’s over

Yes, but that’s why it’s called melancholic breakdown

I even rummaged your bag to find some ideas

I saw a chunk of love letters that you write to me in secret

I saw photos of men all nude and holding hands

And in the evening when I got home, you were bathing them

I tried, I tried, I tried to write a song to cry

Sugar the sugar in my coffee

And stain with sorrow all the paper tablecloths

Disguising myself and seducing you to catch you cheating on me

Being the man who people smile to, bothered

I would have loved it but you love me too much to do so

Okay, very well, it’s just a little song which will make you smile, probably

But don’t get excited, between two bottles, to take it literally

I’m not exchanging your smile for a pretty smile

And I hope that my melancholic breakdown will be forgiven

I tried, I tried, I tried to write a song to cry

I was so desperate

That even my psychologist ended up being depressed

I would have loved, so much loved that my friends could console me

Much loved only at poker, they let me win

I would have loved if we loved each other to get there

Broken down, broken down, in a melancholic breakdown

I love you, you love me, we love each other, so it's a pity

Broken down, broken down, in a melancholic breakdown

I love you, you love me, we love each other, so too bad

Pity

• Artist:Patrick Bruel
• Album:Des souvenirs devant...