We won't speak

(Nous ne parlerons pas)

Jean-Jacques Goldman

I've got all your messages
I've read you page after page
I know your winters and your mornings
And all those words that suit you well

In a few sentences a few letters
I know you so well
We write better than we tell
We dare all that voice banishes

But you want to meet me
And me, I'm so scared to spoil everything
Our confessions, our complicities
How keep it all without breaking anything

We won't speak
We'll forget our voices
We'll say in silence
The essential and the importance
Let's use our gazes
To understand and to know
And the taste of our skin
More loquacious than words
Our arms won't cheat
Our hands won't lie
But over all, let's not speak

I know a charming place
Very up-to-date and very noisy
That kind of places where solitudes
Are multiplied in the multitude
We want only one thing : going out
You'll just be needing a smile
I'll understand it's already late
We'll go and have a drink somewhere else.

Other translations :

Nous ne parlerons pas (original text in french)