Et si tu n'existais pas [English translation]

If you didn’t exist,

Tell me why should I exist?

To wander aimlessly in a world

Without you, without hope, and without regrets?

If you didn't exist,

I would try to invent love

Like a painter, in awe when he sees for the first time the colors of the sunrise

And who just can’t believe it

If you didn't exist,

Tell me for whom should I exist?

For strangers, asleep in my arms

That I would never love?

If you didn't exist,

I would just be another piece of dust

In a world that never stops, where I would feel lost

And where I would look for you

If you didn't exist,

Tell me how would I exist?

I could try to pretend to be myself

But that would be a lie

If you didn't exist,

I think I would have found

The secret of life, the why

Simply to find you and lay my eyes on you

• Artist:Joe Dassin
• Album:Joe Dassin (1975)