Même si j'y reste [English translation]

There’s surely a runway on the other side of the world

Half-covered over with yellowing grass

On a lost island where the sky has been in mourning

Ever since the planes of 1940 disappeared 1

One cannot always live the same old things

One day I’ll had land my plane there

The wings shredded by the winds of the journey

Will make the return trip impossible

Even if I end my days there

Even if I weep about it

Even if I catch the plague there

Even if I die from it

Nothing will make me regret my act

Due to sleeping under ocean breezes

There’ll be nothing left of my old roots

I’ll have only my skin to imprison me

Three or four photos and half a pencil

I’ll live there as long as I’m given

My beautiful and final last love stories

For the trees, the flowers and the chameleons

For the waves that come and the waves that go

Even if I end my days there

Even if I weep about it

Even if I catch the plague there

Even if I die from it

Nothing will make me regret my act

Even if I end my days there

Facing the sea on blocks of granite

On day I’ll go and carve the reasons for my flight

Under the white glinting gaze of the mermaids

I was afraid of the paths that they wanted me to take

Even if I end my days there

Even if I weep about it

Even if I catch the plague there

Even if I die from it

Nothing will make me regret my act

Even if I end my days there…

1. Most probably a reference to WWII military activity in French Polynesia

• Artist:Francis Cabrel
• Album:Carte postale