À quoi ça sert l'amour [English translation]

JOHNNY: What's the use, love?

We always tell

insane stories.

What's the use to love?

MIREILLE: Love cannot be explained!

It's a thing like that!

That comes from who knows where

and then takes you all at once.

JOHNNY: Me, I heard it said

that love hurts,

that love makes you cry,

What's the use to love?

MIREILLE: Love, what's the use?

To give us joy

with tears in the eyes.

It is sad and wonderful!

JOHNNY: Yet we often say

that love is deceptive,

that one of the two in love

is never happy.

MIREILLE: Even when we lost it,

the love we have known

leaves behind a taste of honey.

Love is eternal!

JOHNNY: All that is very nice—

but when all is said and done,

nothing is left

except immense disappointment.

MIREILLE: All that right now

seems to you heartbreaking

Tomorrow, it will be for you

a memory of joy!

JOHNNY: In short, if I have understood,

without love in life,

without its joys, its disappointments,

then we have lived for nothing?

MIREILLE: But yes! Look at me!

Every time I believe it—

and I always believe it—

that's exactly it, love!

But you, you are the last!

But you, you are the first!

Before you there was nothing,

with you I am complete.

It is you I wanted!

It is you I needed!

You, whom I will love forever.

DUO:

That's what love is for!

• Artist:Mireille Mathieu