Mister [English translation]

MISTER

The mystery

About which I have become

Impatient for you, sir

I would have wanted to create

The greatest office

So as one day to understand you

So as to discover you at last

From head to foot

A furnace

A strange balance (equation ?)

Where now and then I have seen the iron

Or the wings of an angle

You would know if you really stayed silent

But for me, if you knew how to guess

What happens inside me

Oh, if you only knew !

One against the other

One all ruffled (annoyed ?)

One or all of the other

I have finished by letting myself go

The mystery

Which has devastated me

Which has thrown out everything

I have never found you

You have put up fences

Proudly, without feeling

You did not want anyone to know

Who you once were

Beneath your airs (outward appearance)

Of not being touchable

The heedlessness of a gust of air

Which has wafted over me

You make me think of the door of a monastery

What is under your armour ?

What secret gardens of your mind ?

One against the other

Everything has gone

One or all the other

I finish by moving from

The mystery

To you, sir {x 3}.

• Artist:Françoise Hardy
• Album:La pluie sans parapluie