| Et si tu n’existais pas,
| And if you did not exist,
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| Dis-moi pourquoi j’existerais?
| Tell me why I would exist?
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| Pour trainer dans un monde sans toi,
| To hang around in a world without you,
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| Sans espoir et sans regrets?
| Without hope and without regrets?
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| Et si tu n’existais pas,
| And if you did not exist,
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| J’essaierais d’inventer l’amour,
| I would try to invent love,
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| Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts
| Like a painter who sees under his fingers
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| Naitre les couleurs du jour
| Born the colors of the day
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| Et qui n’en revient pas.
| And who does not believe.
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| Et si tu n’existais pas,
| And if you did not exist,
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| Dis-moi pour qui j’existerais?
| Tell me who would I exist for?
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| Des passantes endormies dans mes bras
| Bandwidths asleep in my arms
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| Que je n’aimerais jamais.
| That I would never love.
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| Et si tu n’existais pas,
| And if you did not exist,
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| Je ne serais qu’un point de plus
| I'll be just one more point
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| Dans ce monde qui vient et qui va,
| In this world that comes and goes,
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| Je me sentirais perdu,
| I would feel lost,
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| J’aurais besoin de toi.
| I would need you.
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| Et si tu n’existais pas,
| And if you did not exist,
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| Dis-moi comment j’existerais?
| Tell me how would I exist?
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| Je pourrais faire semblant d’etre moi,
| I could pretend to be me,
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| Mais je ne serais pas vrai.
| But I wouldn't be true.
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| Et si tu n’existais pas,
| And if you did not exist,
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| Je crois que je l’aurais trouve,
| I believe I would have found it,
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| Le secret de la vie, le pourquoi,
| The secret of life, the why,
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| Simplement pour te creer
| Just to create you
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| Et pour te regarder.
| And to look at you.
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| Et si tu n’existais pas,
| And if you did not exist,
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| Dis-moi pourquoi j’existerais?
| Tell me why I would exist?
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| Pour trainer dans un monde sans toi,
| To hang around in a world without you,
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| Sans espoir et sans regrets…
| Without hope and without regrets...
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| Et si tu n’existais pas,
| And if you did not exist,
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| J’essaierais d’inventer l’amour,
| I would try to invent love,
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| Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts
| Like a painter who sees under his fingers
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| Naitre les couleurs du jour
| Born the colors of the day
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| Et qui n’en revient pas… | And who does not believe… |