Si j'avais su t'aimer [English translation]

I I had know how to love you

With certainty

Breakfasts

All alone in bed

If I had know what to tell you

With precision

What it is that makes me die

Of uncertainty

If I had known how to love you

How one loves the things one hides

How one would like to pray

That nothing will fall apart

If had known how to write to you

Everything you need to know

I would have been better off

I would have been less cowardly

I would have refused to be wise

I would have given more

Sun to your land

If I had known

If I had seen in your face

The love and the hate it takes

If I had known, If I had known how to open your heart

If I had known how to love you

Before getting to know you

Before forgetting you

I would have lied maybe

If I had known how to lie

To lie or to disappear

To learn how to become

A woman at the window

I would have refused to be wise

I would have given more

Sun to your land

If I had known

If I had seen in your face

The love and the hate it takes

If I had known, If I had known how to open your heart

If I had seen in your face

The love and the hate it takes

If I had known, If I had known how to open your heart

If I had known how to love you

Before getting to know you

Before forgetting you

I would have burnt my letter

• Artist:Chimène Badi