Ma liberté [English translation]

1st Verse

My freedom,

For a long time I kept you,

Like a rare pearl,

My freedom,

It was you who helped me to cast off.

To go anywhere, to go to the end

Of the paths of fortune,

To dreamily pick a compass rose on a moonlight.

2nd Verse

My freedom,

Before your will

My soul was subjugated,

My freedom, I had given you everything,

Even my last shirt.

And how I suffered to be able to satisfy

your least demands:

I changed of country, I lost my friends

To win your trust.

3rd Verse

My freedom, you knew how to disarm all my habits,

My freedom, you who made me love even solitude.

You who made me smile when I saw a beautiful adventure end,

You who protected me when I went into hiding

To heal my wounds.

4th Verse

My freedom, yet I left you

One night in December,

I deserted the remote paths

That we followed together.

When unsuspecting, bound hand and foot

I let myself be led,

And I betrayed you for a prison of love and its beautiful jailer

And I betrayed you to a prison of love and its beautiful jailer.

• Artist:Serge Reggiani