IF YOU DID NOT EXIST

Si tu n’existais pas If you did not exist

Joe Dassin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abfQQ1hzN9M

And if you did not exist
Tell me why should I exist.
To hang around in a world without you
With neither hope nor regret .

And if you did not exist
I would try to invent love
Like a painter who sees his fingers
Give shape to the colors of the day .

And if you did not exist
Tell me for whom would I exist.
Passers- by asleep in my arms
I would never love.

And if you did not exist
In this world where one comes and goes
I would feel lost
I would need you .

And if you did not exist
Tell me how would I exist
I could pretend to be myself
But that would not be true

And if you did not exist
I think I would have found
The secret of life,
Just to create you
And to look at you.

And if you did not exist
Tell me why should I exist
To hang around in a world without you
With neither hope nor regret

And if you did not exist
I would try to invent love
Like a painter who sees his fingers
Give shape to the colors of the day.