| Le parfum de cette forêt de pins | The resinous breath of this pinewood’s heart, |
| Le sable qui coulait entre tes mains | Sand, liquid gold, streaming through your open hands, |
| Un sorbet de groseille au sel marin | A sorbet of currant, brined by the salt of the sea, |
| Le lever du soleil de bon matin | Dawn’s chalice, poured out on a windless morning, |
| Faire l’amour au réveil avant midi | To wake and lose ourselves in clandestine embrace before the hour strikes noon, |
| Le petit déjeuner servi au lit | A fragile breakfast, conjured to the altar of our bed, |
| S’embrasser mouillés, se mettre à l’abri | To kiss, rain-drenched, and seek the hush of shelter, |
| Caressés par le vol d’un colibri | Stroked by the brushstroke flight of a hummingbird above us, |
| Mais peu à peu, mes souvenirs s’effacent | But gently, my memories begin to dissolve, |
| Comme la pluie au rythme des essuie-glace | Like rain-drops measured by the pulse of wiper blades, |
| Tes pas dans l’eau dont j’ai perdu la trace | Your footsteps once painting the water, now faded, |
| Mon amour, j’ai vu le temps qui passe | Beloved, I have watched the passage of time unfold, |
| Les jolis reflets dorés de ta peau | Those gilded gleams that played across your skin, |
| Ton sourire quand je te jetais à l’eau | Your laughter—sunned and bright—when I cast you into the wave’s cool arms, |
| Un seau, une pelle et deux si beaux châteaux | A bucket, a spade, and two castles—masterworks born of sand and fleeting light, |
| La promesse de vivre sur mon bateau | The promise that we’d make our dwelling on the hull of my lone boat, |
| Tous ces beaux moments qu’on a vécus | All those radiant moments we shaped from the hourglass, |
| J’ai beau essayer, je n’m’en souviens plus | I strive to recall, but the tapestry is frayed and gone, |
| Rendez-vous dans le paradis perdu | A tryst in some vanished paradise we conjured, |
| S’aimer sans jamais se perdre de vue | To love you—never letting our shadows fall apart, |
| Mais peu à peu, mes souvenirs s’effacent | But gently, my memories begin to dissolve, |
| Comme la pluie au rythme des essuie-glace | Like rain-drops measured by the pulse of wiper blades, |
| Tes pas dans l’eau dont j’ai perdu la trace | Your footsteps once painting the water, now faded, |
| Mon amour, j’ai vu le temps qui passe | Beloved, I have watched the passage of time unfold |