Pour ne pas vivre seul [English translation]

In order not to live alone

One lives with a dog

One lives with roses

Or with a cross.

In order not to live alone

One makes cinema

One loves a souvenir

A shadow, anything...

In order not to live alone

One lives for the spring

And when the spring dies

For the following spring.

In order not to live alone

I love you and I wait for you

To have the illusion

That I’m not living alone,

Not living alone...

In order not to live alone

Girls love girls

And we see guys

Marrying guys.

In order not to live alone

Others have children

Children who are alone

Like all the children.

In order not to live alone

We make cathedrals

Where all those who are alone

Pray to a star.

In order not to live alone

I love you and I await you

To have the illusion

That I’m not living alone.

In order not to live alone

One makes friends

And they get together

When the evenings of trouble arrive.

One lives for his money

His dreams, his palaces

But we never make

A coffin for two.

In order not to live alone

Me, I live with you

I am alone with you

You are alone with me.

In order not to live alone

We live as those who want

To give the illusion

That they’re not living alone.

• Artist:Dalida
• Album:Il faut du temps (1972)