1000 vies [English translation]

Will I have the lie in the mouth

The right hand on the heart?

Will I be clothed under the shower

Completely drunk or frozen with fear?

Will I be dying

With a perfect (female) stranger

Will I be sitting alone at my table

In the twilight, half naked?

Will I be able to look into your face

And tell you: "I did what I could"

If I could only break the ice

And touch your cheek, without shame?

Will I be mature enough to ask for grace

Will I have swallowed my pride

Or will I be suffocated by it instead

Who can know what one reaps?

A thousand lives are not enough

A thousand men are not strong enough

Don't go soap the slope

Don't go make my fate more difficult

A thousand lives are not enough

A thousand men are not strong enough

Come back if I am at my lamp

Don't come back if I am making myself sleep

Will I have a friend at my table

Or someone you don't like

Will I be guilty once more

Of weakness or I don't know what?

Will I be in my bed like an angle

ruminating bad thoughts

Or pressing the skin of an orange

Before my eyes to enlighten myself

Will I have the right to your benevolence

Or will you send me to the ground

The more I think about this, the more I think

That I have not understood the lesson

How could I seduce your soul

Have you thought about it before?

You and your invulnerable heart

You and you damned truth

A thousand lives are not enough

A thousand men are not strong enough

Don't go soap the slope

Don't go make my fate more difficult

A thousand lives are not enough

A thousand men are not strong enough

Come back if I am at my lamp

Don't come back if I am making myself sleep

• Artist:Stephan Eicher
• Album:1000 vies (1996)