Jean Ferrat - Song for you

Original Title: "Chanson pour toi"
Text: Michelle Senlis
Year: 1966

When dawn thinks it's Matisse
When butterflies lose their pleats
Like to the flower of the pomegranate tree

When the first fragile sun
Hits on the closed shutters of the city
One by one to wake them up

When the first horse who trots
Has smoke under the boots
Some soil under the shoes

I open my eyes and I see you
I open my eyes and I believe you
I open my eyes and it's for you
That I want to live, my love

When noon thinks it's Cézanne
That it puts wind in the plane trees
And some blue in the olive trees

When all the herds take fright
That heat takes them, lays them down
Under the thin shadow of a fig tree

When all the streets are deserted
That none offers a green square
A shelter, a shadow, a path

I open my eyes and I see you
I open my eyes and I believe you
I open my eyes and it's for you
That I want to live, my love

When the evening turns its cliffs blue
Like a Japanese print
Like a Renoir, like a Manet

When the drunk sun capsizes
In the ocean and stretches out
Like an unfolded fan

When everything is metamorphosed
And that only the scent of the roses
Keeps exacerbating

I open my eyes and I see you
I open my eyes, I stretch out my arms
I open my eyes and it's for you
That I want to live, my love

My love