Par amour [English translation]

Sweetie, it was love, that vanishing powder that you took.

He was a bolt from the blue and you greeted the storm with open arms.

Sweetie, you were the girl in Wonderland;

I know you opened your heart rather than open your veins to him;

You saw in him what only you could understand:

You were small, but he was big and gentle,

I know; and why dwell on it? Love defies all explanation,

And nor can the blood we'll find inside your house.

REFRAIN

In the name of love, the name of love, that's all you knew how to say;

The name of love, in the name of love, nothing's impossible.

In the name of love, the name of love, that's all you knew how to say;

In the name of love.

Sweetie, you stepped out onto the platform, alone;

You come from here - and there - and you were going nowhere,

Sweetie; you had big blue eyes, but circled with black;

Is that the reason you left? Who knows?

He saw how fragile and how deep in the shit you were;

He told you, "You're so pretty, come with me, I'll take you with me, sweetie;"

And in that second he became your mentor;

People were wrong about you; there was still hope for you, I know.

Your innocence had got inside his heart.

You were his evidence and he was your soulmate, I know;

Nothing and no-one may judge two people who are in love,

Nor their wants nor the madness that keeps them back, sweetie.

The train-carriage loneliness you felt is so far away now,

Now sentenced to a golden cage in the middle of the lake of him,

Sweetie - he lived in a heaven on earth.

And you even got back the smile you'd once burnt up in a teaspoon.

REFRAIN

Sweetie, you didn't want to let time break you down;

You'd got back that smile and now you were solid, I know;

You two were children lost to mad abandon;

You became two lovers set against the world, sweetie;

You'd been a siren swimming in an ambulance,

Or ambling from one person to another, wishing for a less hard life,

I know you grew up with him and you'll one day die with him;

He was the one who brought you back to life,

Sweetie; your face was bright and live again -

Could this wise young girl be a killer, who can say?

For in those pretty eyes nothing was impossible now;

It was a sinful, dangerous type of love;

Sweetie, each morning he'd be up at break of dawn,

Saying, "Princess, I'm off to find some gold;

You know the world's pulling on its reins to pounce and beat us down.

Look at me - you're my lady and I'll do anything to get us out of here."

REFRAIN

Sweetie, you became the only heroin(e) for him.

You two were going to get out, unselfishly, I know;

Both working to help each other, you'll say goodbye to hell,

Goodbye to the fleeting dreams in your bloodstream, sweetie;

Soon you'll live without poison or chemicals made by man;

Love, fresh water, and laughter without acid, I know;

You were pretty, sweetie, you were his,

You were a princess and a beauty and standing upon a dying world;

Sweetie, there are some things that life cannot explain;

There are some that death takes away and won't give back,

Sweetie, your car, your speed and your boyfriend on the windscreen,

And at the wheel a girl crying in a crisis, you know

She thought she'd found the man she wanted to keep for life herself,

But she found him in their bed with her best friend, sweetie,

And she'd gone out to the car in an attempt to forget,

Forget to brake, and she'd run down your beloved boy, sweetie.

I beg of you, don't give up, get back up off the ground;

You'll meet again, he's waiting for you in heaven, sweetie;

It's true that it's going to be so difficult without him -

You've lost your way out, the only cure for your wounds, sweetie;

I beg of you, don't do something like this in the name of love, stop!

Put down that weapon and don't try to be a hero, sweetie;

Think back to that still lake, think back to your dreams;

Why are you holding that barrel to your lips, sweetie?

To all those who live in the name of love;

To all those who lost themselves in the name of love;

To all those hearts which hold on in the name of love;

To all those women who are still here in the name of love;

To all those men who are hiding in the name of love;

To all those lives ruined in the name of love;

To all those people who've died in the name of love,

And to all those people who've survived in the name of love.

• Artist:Diam's