Mon frère

You, the brother I never had
Do you know if you had lived
What we would have done together
A year after me, you would have been born
Then we wouldn't have parted ways
Like friends who are alike
We would have learned slang by heart
I would have been your teacher
In my truancy school
Surely one day we would have fought
As long as we had known back then
Together the same firsts

But you're not here
Whose fault is it
Not my father's
Not my mother's
You could have sung that

You, the brother I never had
If you knew what I've drowned
In my solitary sorrows
If you hadn't let me down
You would have finished my songs
I would have taught you how to make them
If life had treated us better
It would have divided in two
Pairs of gloves, pairs of slaps
It would have surely shared
Words of love and cobblestones
Girls and baton blows

But you're not here
Whose fault is it
Not my father's
Not my mother's
You could have sung that

You, the brother I would never have
I am less alone for having made you
For a moment, for a girl
I bothered you, you forgive me
Here when everything abandons you
We create a family