Les dérobades [English translation]

Either you love me, or you leave me,

but tonight you have to choose.

don't say you hesitate;

you hurt for pleasure...

The pleasure to see a man

like a toy in your hands,

whom you leave for no one

and go back to for no reason

Me, I can no longer stand all your quirks,

days when love me, days when I slip,

into the depth of the shade, at the edge of emptiness,

of those long nights when my heart gets wrinkled

I no longer have the strength to always wait for you.

The bark is solid but the wood is soft.

My life is falling apart. I barricade...

Tonight, I mock your flirtings!

I want to read between the lines,

guess between words.

I cling to any sign

shipwrecked on your raft.

I am nothing but a fool, perhaps,

and you play with my love

as with these marionnettes

of which a child gets wary one day.

Me, I can no longer stand all your quirks,

days you when love me, days when I slip,

into the depth of the shade, at the edge of the emptiness,

of those long nights when my heart gets wrinkled

no longer have the strength to always wait for you.

The bark is solid but the wood is soft.

My life is falling apart. I barricade...

Tonight, I mock your evasions