Beau fixe [English translation]

I rather like the red roses, the white roses

you offer me for bad or no reasons1

I also like to put some rouge on my white cheeks,

just for an evening, for any odd reason

I feel good in the laziness of our Sundays

I am farther away when it gets a bit cold

I'm only awaiting your warm shoulder to pour my heart out on...

I also like these small gestures

All this

is but hanging by a thread,

a breath of wind, a flutter of lashes.

Should one

of us slip away,

all this

is but hanging by a thread.

I also like it when I go wherever you like,

I like the day you come back just as much.

I would like to have quavering words for you,

to forget to loose my way.

I like so much to run to you breathlessly,

without keeping the best for last.

I only want to lay my hand in yours2

and lie down till early morning.

All this

is but hanging by a thread,

a breath of wind, a flutter of lashes.

Should one

of us slip away,

all this

is but hanging by a thread.

All this

is but hanging by a thread,

a breath of wind, a flutter of lashes.

Should one

of us slip away,

all this

is but hanging by a thread.

1. she hijacks the expression "à tort ou à raison" (be it wrong or right) and replaces it with something that means "for wrong reasons or for no reason at all"2. the French also uses an unusual way of speaking

• Artist:Coralie Clément