Sur toi [English translation]

I write about what I endure

The parts of me that die (*), about the wounds

I write my fear

The love I don't have (**)

I write from the heart

But it's always

About what I couldn't say,

couldn't live through, didn't know to keep

I write in verse

And against all

It's always hell

That pushes me

To cast ink on paper (***),

the blame on those who left me

To write, it's always to step back

the moment where everything fell apart

One doesn't write

of what one loves,

of the one who doesn't cause

any problem

and that is why

I don't write

about you

Do not worry

I write about what hurts me

The list of strengths I have left

The stretches of my life wasted (****)

From bad to prose, of broken verses

I write like one meows under the moon

In the night, I dip my quill

(^) I write of the infected

I write what isn't there

I write about the rain

Not about nice weather (^)

I write things that are not said

On the walls, I write on the roofs

To write, it's always to go back

To the ones who made us leave

One doesn't write that one wants for nothing

That one is happy, that everything's fine

That is why

I do not write

About you

Do not worry

I write when I hurt for others

When my pain resembles yours

When the world shrugs things off at me (^^)

I make it take the blame

I write the unforgettable blues

It seems to me less difficult

To tell everybody, rather than to one

And to have the last word.

It's only when she's already left (^^^)

To write: "Please don't leave me"

When they live under the same roof no more

that he comes tell her he's leaving

One doesn't write of the good luck one has

No love song when love is around (^^^^)

That is why, my love

I write nothing

About you

Do not worry

• Artist:Zazie