Retenir l'eau [English translation]

Holding the water

Which is in your palm

Feeling everything

Even though you're

Tightening your fingers

I feel cold

But the water...

But the water escapes

Drop after drop

It is fragile

Fragile is the existence

In the grip of doubts

Listen

And when

Death is...

There, inside the skin

And when

The ordeal

And when I hear

Too much real suffering

It is like

A mirror

Like mouth to mouth respiration

I feel

A breath

That is born in unison

My double

Holding the water

Which is in your palm

Tell me everything

When we need each other

So much

But for what?

And then...

You go and hide

Without a doubt

A tragic1

Drops of life

Which fall and sink

I sink

And when

Death is...

There, inside the skin

And when

The ordeal...

And when I hear

Too much of

Your suffering

It is like

A mirror

Like mouth to mouth respiration

Inside of me

Your breath

Which is born

And knows

And loves

And when

Death is...

There, inside the skin

And when

The ordeal

And when I hear

Too much real suffering

It is like

A mirror

Like mouth to mouth respiration

I feel

A breath

That is born in unison

My double

1. There should be a noun after this adjective but "tragique" is apparently used as a noun itself here, through artistic license.

• Artist:Mylène Farmer
• Album:Désobéissance (2018)