Not indefference

(Pas l'indifférence)

Jean-Jacques Goldman

I'm going along with pain
Even with fear I know about the consequences
Never mind the tears
I'm going along no matter what it costs
All the worst in the best
I'm taking tears and doubts
And risk all misfortunes

Everything but not indifference
Everything but not the dying time
And the days are all alike
With no taste and no coulor

And I'll learn the pain
And I'll learn the burns
For the honey of a presence
The breath of a murmur
I'll learn the cold of phrases
I'll learn the warm of words
I swear not to be wise I promise to be fool

I would give ten years for a gaze
Castles, palasts for a railway wharf
A piece of adventure against all comforts
Plenty of certitudes against more desires
Exchange my dead years against a little of life
Seek a door key for all foolishness
I'm taking all tickets for all travels
Going anywhere but changing the scenery
Erase those absent hours
And repaint all in coulors
All those souls that lie and smile as we cry.

Other translations :

Pas l'indifférence (original text in french)