L'été indien [English translation]

You know, I'd never been as happy as I was that morning

We were walking along a beach like this one here

It was autumn, a beautiful autumn day

A season that exists only in America's north

Over there they call it Indian summer

But it was just simply ours

With your long dress you looked like a Marie Laurencin watercolour

And I remember, I remember very well what I told you that morning

A year ago, a century ago, an eternity

We’ll go wherever you’d like, whenever you’d like

And we will still love each other, when love will have died

All our life will be the same as this morning

With the colours of Indian summer

Today I'm far away from that autumn morning

But it’s as if I were there.

I think of you.

Where are you?

What are you doing?

Do I still exist for you?

I look at this wave that will never reach the dune

You see, like the wave, I lay on the sand and I remember,

I remember high tides, sun and happiness passing

over the sea.

An eternity, a century, a year ago.

We will go wherever you’d like, whenever you’d like

And we will still love each other, when love will have died

Our whole life will be the same as this morning

With the colours of Indian summer.

• Artist:Joe Dassin
• Album:L'été indien (1975)