À la grâce de toi
Jane Birkin
By Your Grace
Why does your grace
Hit me, drowsy tonight?
Your face with eyes closed
Reminds me of you in my arms
Why do I see you running
In slow motion?
And the laughter echoes
From the shores of forgetfulness?
Why do my hands tremble
To touch you once more
And understand the beauty
Of this complexity of the body?
Too weak to swim
Against the current, life
Sends unexpected waves
Of melancholy
Tossed around, here you are
Cuddled up like sailors
Who spot in a
Storm the shelter
I bless the gods, in whom
I no longer believed, for giving me
A child to keep
For one night
Why does your grace
Hit me, drowsy tonight?
Your face with eyes closed
Reminds me of you in my arms
Why do I see you running
In slow motion?
And the laughter echoes
From a beach of forgetfulness?
Why do my hands tremble
To touch you once more
And understand the beauty
Of this complexity of the body?
Too weak to swim
Against the current, life
Sends unexpected waves
Of melancholy
