One grows weary of everything, my angel. it is the law of nature, it is not my fault.

If for example I had as much love as you have virtue, and that is surely saying a lot, is it not astonishing that we should end at the same time as the other ? it is not my fault.

From this, it follows that for some time I have been deceiving you. but then, your pitiless affection forced me as it were to do so. it is not my fault.

Today, a woman I love madly insists that I sacrifice you to her. it is not my fault.

I realise that this is a fine opportunity for crying out on perjury, but if nature's only given men assurance, or if she gave women obstinacy, it is not my fault.

Take my advice: choose another lover, as I have chosen another mistress. this is good advice. very good. if you think it bad, it is not my fault.

Farewell, my angel, I took you with pleasure, I abandon you without regret. perhaps I will come back, to you. so goes the world, it is not my fault.

• After The Ceasefire
• Alone
• Annabel Lee
• Ballad of The Soldier's Wife
• Blazing Away
• Comrade
• Danny Boy
• Electra
• File It Under Fun from The Past
• For Wanting You
• Go Away from My World
• Great Expectations
• Hang It on Your Heart
• I Saw Three Ships A-sailing
• I've Done It Again
• Incarceration of a Flower Child
• Insane Asylum
• Irony
• Is This What I Get for Loving You ?
• Les Prisons Du Roy
• Lies
• Love Got Lost
• Mad About The Boy
• Madame George
• Marathon Kiss
• Misplaced Love
• My Only Friend
• Over Here
• Self-imposed Exile
• Sexual Terrorist
• Sister Morphine
• Somebody Loves You
• Something Better
• Sonnet 14
• Summer Nights
• The Absent Touch
• The Hawk
• The Letter
• The Skye Boat Song
• The Trial
• Time
• Tower of Song
• Trouble in Mind
• Vagabond Ways
• When I Find My Life
• Who Will Take My Dreams Away ?
• Wilder Shores of Love
• Without Blame