Un homme à la mer [English translation]

That was really the much talked about paradise

To set a sailor foot in it, but to feel stricken

By your warm eyes, your warm eyes

When we'd like to be strong and proud

To melt like the ice-cubes at the bottom of our glasses

To drink through the whole night so we don't shut up anymore

So we become someone else...

Between a stranded desirer and a white desert

I think about you half the time

About your clear eyes, your clear eyes

Blind and filled with you, towards the light

When the sun sets the sea ablaze

I love your mystery

And I can do better

I feel like a man overboard

May those who loved before understad me

I feel like a man overboard

What could I do about it?

I feel like a man overboard

May those who never loved

Cast the first stone

I feel like a man overboard

What could you do about it?

You, my angel, a gift of the gods

Whom I caress with my eyes

You are my joy, my precious gem

I caress you with my eyes

I only caress you with my eyes

I only loved your mystery

I should have done better

I feel like a man overboard

My heart of stone has only seen

Half of the sea

I feel like a man overboard

What could I do about it?

I feel like a man overboard

My heart of stone

Has only seen half of the sea

Like a man overboard

May those who have drowned before understand me

• Artist:Étienne Daho