Un homme heureux [English translation]

Why people are people in love

Always a bit the same?

They have when they pass by

The same look of having one desire for two.

They are happy people.

Why people are people in love

Always a bit the same?

When they have their problems

Well, there is nothing you can say, nothing you can do for them.

They are people in love.

And me, I hardly know you

But it would be a a stroke of luck

If we were to go a bit like them

We could make, without upsetting anyone

Some space for the both of us

But if it's not worth

My raising this again

Tell me straight (lit: looking me eye to eye).

Whatever time this might take

However high the stakes

I want to be a happy man.

Why are people in love

Always a bit rebellious?

They have their own world,

Which nothing can force to look like those

That people give us as models (to copy/live by)

Why are people in love

Always a little cruel?

When they speak about themselves

There is something that keeps you out.

These are human things.

• Artist:William Sheller
• Album:Sheller en solitaire (1991)