C'est toujours la première fois [English translation]

At last at last I find you back

You who had been only

absent like a young she-wolf

Or like the still water in a moat

Escaping into the summer sun

You can welcome me with open arms a hundred times

It is always the first time

Absent as a sovereign

One sees walking past between the hedges

O you so close and so far away

As soon as love spins its yarn

Between our fingers out of tune

You can welcome me with open arms a hundred times

It is always the first time

The hunger for you that devours me

Bends my knees and my arms

I will never have enough amphoras

Nor enough words again and again

To calm it down

You can welcome me with open arms a hundred times

It is always the first time

The thirst for you that makes me tremble

My lip ever so parched

My love what do you figure

Is it to live together or not

That will quench me of it

You can welcome me with open arms a hundred times

It is always the first time

The love of you that makes me exist

Has no other reality

I am but a name on your list

A mark that the wind on the path

Erases before it was

You can welcome me with open arms a hundred times

It is always the first time