Des mes rêves à tes rêves

We walked the path
From your dreams to my dreams
Your fingers to my breasts
From your mouth to my lips
From war to peace
How many times, my love
How many back and forths
Between hate and love

Every time, the road and its chaos
And its rocks and its holes
Tore me from your skin
Threw me back on your knees
Tattooed me on your cheek
How many great journeys
For so many shipwrecks
On this same shore

Until the day I said: "Get lost!"
I’ve got nothing left to hurt
That’s untouched by blows
I’m tired of the miles
We cross to be
At a worse end

I said: "Take your junk car
And drive as far as you want
Go promise your moon
To someone else but me"

I didn’t think you’d obey me
To the letter like that
I watched you leave
Dying softly
On the porch
Broken in places
I didn’t know
Between my heart and your arms

The stars I had in my eyes
That seemed to please you
Came crashing down
Like starfish
On the deserted shore
My heart like a souvenir
My body like an attic
I was scared I’d collapse

I don’t know how
Like pushed by the wind
I started to chase, running
The cloud of dust
That your junk car
Was kicking up as it sped away

Then I shouted: "Wait for me, I’m coming!"
I can’t live without you
And if it’s not a life to follow you
Then it’ll be what it’ll be

You still have, in your hands
The little spoon
That picked me up so well
When I crashed to the ground
You still have, in your hands
The little caress
That would make me, like a dog
Pant with joy"
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah

But of course, you didn’t hear a thing
And you and your cloud
Disappeared
And I was left there
Like a wooden horse
That no longer rocks anyone
And that gets abandoned
That gets thrown away

One day when I thought I was better
That I was going to the village
And it was rainy
Two clouds away from a storm
Silencing the birds
Two steps from the restaurant
And three from the garage
Two fingers from forgetting

Lost in my raincoat
And in some thoughts
Like: "It’s funny in the sand
All these shoe prints"
Like: "I don’t know what I’m gonna do
With my long evening"
Right next to me
This pleasant scent
These familiar hair
It was... it was you

And the storm broke
At the same time as the piece of flesh
That served as my heart
And the wind rose
At the same time as a flash
Made us both tremble with fear

I said: "If you came for the stars
They’ve fallen in the mud
If you’re here to see me, I’ll let you know
There’s nothing left to see at all"

You said: "I’ve traveled
The paths of my dreams
To dreams that weren’t yours
I just wanted you to know, my love
That these damn journeys
Have always been in vain"
Ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah

So I said: "Since you’re here
Come take a coffee
If you want, you can throw
Some logs in the fire
It’ll warm us up
While the storm passes
And the fire ignites
Like it used to!"

And that’s when you looked down
And said: "I can’t
Because, you see, there’s a wish
That I made over there
She looks a bit like you
The one I said: "Yes"
That little "Yes" precious
That I never said to you"
You added that she also
Takes good care of the kid
And that you’re already too old, today
To fix the mistake
The worst of your life
Which is leaving here

You knelt in the mud
To ask me for forgiveness
The thunder stole your phrase
And you jumped up

And you left, looking sad
Your pants all dirty
And, in the corner of my eyes
There were like... stars.