Ces petit riens [English translation]

'Tis better to think of nothing

Rather than not thinking at all

Nothing is already

Nothing is already enough

We don't remember anything

And since we forget everything

Nothing is a lot better

Nothing is better than everything

'Tis better to think of nothing

Than thinking about you

It doesn't help

It doesn't help me at all

As if nothing

Wasn't wrong, I think of all

Those little nothings

Which I got from you

If it was three times nothing

Three times nothing between us

Obviously

That's not a whole lot

These are those little nothings

Which I've stringed bit by bit

These little nothings

Which I got from you

'Tis better to cry about nothing

Rather than to laugh at everything

Crying over nothing

Now that's already enough

But you, you have nothing

In your heart and I admit

I envy you

I hate you a lot

These are those little nothings

Which I got from you

Do you want them?

Here! What do you want?

As for me, I wouldn't want for anything

Anything from you any longer

For me to be with you

I would have to be a fool