Avec Toi

I come from the depths of ages and from the edge of things
I've lived a thousand times more than anyone
I've been on the moon before anyone landed there
Through the magic of dreams and poetry
I've traveled around beings, and around myself
Associating youth with a dangerous sport
I've said goodbye a hundred times, as many times I love you
Before leaving without turning my eyes away

But with you my sweet, my tender, my darling
With you it's different
With you I seek, I invent, I learn
Different words, different gestures
With you my queen, my beauty, my life
With you my heart is in spring
With you I hope, I dream, I forget
Everything else

I come from the depths of time of pleasures and vices
Beyond the possible of imagination
I come from the edge of the world where in precipices
Rests my madness, with my illusions
I've collected lead in tasteless wars
And I've sown gold on gambling tables
I've vomited alcohols from sordid taverns
I've implored the sky, and I've blasphemed God

But with you my sweet, my tender, my darling
With you it's different
With you I seek, I invent, I learn
Different words, different gestures
With you my queen, my beauty, my life
With you my heart is in spring
With you I hope, I dream, I forget
Everything else