Jean Ferrat - Aragon - The misfortune of loving

Original Title: "Le malheur d'aimer"
Year: 1971

What do you know of the simplest things?
The days are suns in disguise
Of which at night dream the roses
All the fires go away in smoke
What do you know of the misfortune of loving?

I have looked for you at the back of the bedrooms
Where the lamp was lit up
Our steps did not ring there together
Nor our arms on us closed up
What do you know of the misfortune of loving?

I have looked for you at the window
The parks are perfumed in vain
Where can you, where can you well be?
What's the point of living during the month of may?
What do you know of the misfortune of loving?

What do you know of the long wait
And of living only to name you
God, always the same and different
And of you, I only to blame
What do you know of the misfortune of loving?

That I forget myself and I remain
Like the rower without rowing
Do you know how long it's to die
While listening to yourself being consumed
Do you know the misfortune of loving?

All poems written by Louis Aragon