Je voudrais tant que tu comprennes [English translation]

I wish so much you could understand,

You, who I am going to leave tonight,

That we can feel sadness1

And seem to feel none

With a hurt heart

Being still smiling

Apparently indifferent

To the last words needed to be written

For a bad ending novel2

Distraught soul, saving face

Singing with eyes full of tears

And seeming to be glad

In a frozen universe3

I wish so much you could understand

Since our love is going to end

That despite everything, you see, I love you

And I am hurting to death

I wish so much you could understand,

Despite all that happened,

That I loved you more than myself

And that I cannot forget you

1. Literally, that we can feel upset/sad2. Literally, when a novel is with a bad ending3. These last two sentences were reversed

• Artist:Mylène Farmer