Un enfant [English translation]

A child perhaps could have saved us, allowed us

not to arrive so soon at the day of our goodbye.

A child would no doubt have prevented this derailment,

would have avoided that our road forks into two.

At this second when our joys collapse,

I believe that I recognize far away from you the end of the world.

I know now that, from now on, I can never forget

for even one day the child we will never have.

A child perhaps could have saved us, allowed us

not to arrive so soon at the day of our goodbye.

In his very first smile, he would have known how to show us.

With him, we would have lived face-to-face.

At this second when our joys collapse,

I believe that I recognize far away from you the end of the world.

I know now that, from now on, I can never forget

for even one day the child we will never have.

Despite our love in ruins, my deepest desire persists.

This child, I imagine him, he smiles at me always—

he smiles at me forever.

• Artist:Dalida
• Album:Les années Barclay l'intégrale: 1956-1970