Avant [English translation]

Then

I lay my head in the palms of your hands

Like an infant I had no fear

When my body, spent, would surrender to

The quiet of your bed where our lives began.

Then

Too, I caressed your hair

And my lips knew how to close your eyes

And I could watch you sleep

Never tiring of your smile.

Then

I knew how to make you cry for joy

And I found the words that would set you on fire

And it was your whole body

That called my name.

When you loved me, but that was then.

Then

Everything was beautiful when you were there

Those fields of wheat where we sometimes went

With the sun that would spatter

Your white dress, that danced.

Now

I know what it is to have terrible pain

An ache at no longer knowing how to cry

How to live and where to go

Now that love is gone.

Then I knew how to make you cry for joy

And I found the words that would set you on fire

And it was your whole body

That called my name.

When you loved me, but that was then.

Then

Everthing was beautiful when you were there

Those fields of wheat where we sometimes went

With the sun that would spatter

Your white dress, that danced.

• Artist:Johnny Hallyday