By Michel Vaucaire,
"Non, je ne regrette rien."
[Applause]
[Instrumental music swells.]
No, nothing at all
No, I regret nothing
Neither the good done to me,
nor the evil
Neither matter at all
No, nothing at all
No, I regret nothing
Debts are paid, erased, swept away
with no care for the past.
As memories kindled,
a spark set them afire;
My sorrows, my pleasures;
went from burning to ash.
Freed from love's trembling need,
Freed from it forever,
I begin from zero.
No, nothing at all
No, I regret nothing
Neither the good done to me,
nor the evil
Neither matter at all
No, nothing at all
No, I regret nothing
So, my life, and my joy,
Begin again,
today, with you.
[Music crescendo.]
[Wild applause.]