Partir avant les miens [English translation]

Little crowd dancing

Around a falling asleep body

Huge sweetness

For a relative's departure

Quietly

Painted in artifice's colours

Soft blue ones and pink ones and white ones

And slowly

Tender faces, along the grass, slide,

Smile each other, whispering

And without the lesser torment

They celebrate my funeral

Crazy ashes, and they fly

Under the pale and happy eyes

And unite with fireflies

To live one last moment

And forever

Stay suspended

And I often wished

To leave before my kin

Not to inherit

Their extinguishing flame

And to go

Keeping the feeling

That they shall eternally live

And simply

May they make the night as clear

As bonfires on Saint-John's Eve (*)

And may their eyes be wide open

To celebrate my funeral

Mother and father, brother and sister

I powerfully love you

Address no prayer

Wherever I go, I shall wait for you

Dust

Lives out of Time

You have to keep in the light

Dance, drink while rocking me

For I can love you, falling asleep

• Artist:Daniel Balavoine