Quand même [English translation]

Everyday happiness

Truly says nothing to me.

Virtue is nothing but feebleness

That ends (lit: sees its end) in Heaven.

I prefer the promise

Of artificial paradises

I know that in the door of a bar

Where I have drunk to the limit

They will pick up

My burnt out body on a stretcher somewhere.

I drink even so

Under the drug, slowly

From ecstasy to supreme ecstasy

I relentlessly approach

The sombre asylum of the demented.

I take it even so

I know that into the femme fatale

In the arms of an overly pale lover

Will infiltrate the horrible illness

Of which one snuffs it in a hospital bed.

I make love even so

My unappeased senses

Seeking to get drunk.

Bring me again

The adventure of decadent nights.

The desire tenses my mouth

The voluptuousness burns my skin

I know that in the door of a bar

Where I have drunk to the limit

They will pick up

My burnt out body on a stretcher somewhere.

I drink even so

Under the drug, slowly

From ecstasy to supreme ecstasy

I relentlessly approach

The sombre asylum of the demented.

I take it even so

I know that into the femme fatale

In the arms of an overly pale lover

Will infiltrate the horrible illness

Of which one snuffs it in a hospital bed.

I make love even so

• Artist:Édith Piaf