S'il ne reste qu'un ami [English translation]

When the party is over

You need to pick up the glasses

Blow out the candles

Turn on the light

When you no longer want to know

What time it really is

Having played the blotter

Of alcohol red or white

When you've laughed too hard

To hide the sadness

Of the never ending wounds

Made by those who leave us

If he only stays a friend, only a shoulder

A rock where it's placed

If he only stays a friend, an oak, a willow

Life is just beginning

If he only stays a friend

It's enough

I will see the Sun

Rising over the roofs

The remnants of the day before

One day I'll laugh about it

Accepting myself as vulnerable

Like the child beneath the armour

Everything thrown on the table

The shouting, the whispers

And seeing each other face to face

Gives us the courage

And seeing ourselves in the mirror

Ready to turn the page

If he only stays a friend, only a shoulder

A rock where it's placed

If he stays only a friend, an oak, a willow

Life is just beginning

If he only stays a friend

If he only stays a friend, only a mirror

To tell the truth

If he only stays a friend

He is the friend that in the end we found within us

If he only stays a friend

He is here