Mon mec à moi [English translation]

He plays with my heart,

He cheats about my life,

He tells so much lies

But I believe in each one.

Those songs he sings to me,

Those dreams he daydreams for us both

Are like mint candies :

They're good when the storm comes.1

And I delude myself

While listening to his voice —

Those stories aren't real,

But still I believe in them.

This man of mine,

He tells me about adventures

And when they're shining in his eyes

I could get lost in those all night long.

He talks about love

Like he talks about cars,

And I follow him everywhere he wants to

Because I'm so fond of his words;

Because I'm so fond of his words,

Oh yeah :

This man of mine.

His way of being mine

Without even saying he loves me,

This is only pretending

But to me it's much of a muchness

This film in black and white

He showed me a thousand time,

It's only some Gabin & Morgan2

Or at least, it looks like that.

And I delude myself,

I believe in some crazy stories,

Those stories are not real,

But still I believe in them.

This man of mine,

He tells me about adventures

And when they're shining in his eyes

I could get lost in those all night long.

He talks about love

Like he talks about cars,

And I follow him everywhere he wants to

Because I'm so fond of his words;

Because I'm so fond of his words,

Oh yeah :

This man of mine.

1. This one is tricky. The meaning is, like candies we like to eat when we're ill, the singer loves to listen to her boyfriends lies even though the situation is really bad.2. Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan, the two main actors of the french film "Le Quai des Brumes" "Port of Shadows"(1938)

• Artist:Patricia Kaas
• Album:Mademoiselle Chante (1988)