Original title: Je l'aime à mourir
Author: Francis Cabrel
Adaptation: Denis Bredelet
I was nobody and
Suddenly I became
The watchman as she sleeps
Through the night
I love her to death
You can destroy
All of our dreams
She just has to let me in
The space of her arms
To bring it all back
To bring it all back
I love her to death
She removed all the hands
Of the clocks on the street
She took my life and made it
Into paper cranes
And bursts of laughter
She built bridges
Between us and the sky
We cross them up every time
She doesn’t want to sleep
She doesn’t want to sleep
I love her to death
* Chorus *
You must have done all the battles
To be as strong as her today
She must have done all the battles
In life, and in love too
She lives at her best
Her porcelain dream
She dances in the mid
Of the trees she has drawn
I love her to death
She ties her hair
With strings she let fly
She tells me often
That I am wrong to try
Holding them back
Holding them back
I love her to death
To get to her secret
Place near the clouds
I must attach notes
To the wood of my shoes
I love her to death
I must sit there
Not say a thing
I mustn’t expect anything
I only must try
To become all hers
To become all hers
I love her to death
* Chorus *
You must have done all the battles
To be as strong as her today
She must have done all the battles
In life, and in love too
I was nobody and
Suddenly I became
The watchman as she sleeps
Through the night
I love her to death
You can destroy
All of our dreams
She just has to let me in
The space of her arms
To bring it all back
To bring it all back
I love her to death