"Et si tu n'existais pas"
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
Dis-moi pourquoi j’existerais Tell me why I would.
Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi To trail in a world without you,
Sans espoir et sans regret Without hope or regrets.
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
J’essaierais d’inventer l’amour I would try to invent love,
Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts Like a painter who sees under his fingers
Naître les couleurs du jour The colors of day come to life.
Et qui n’en revient pas And can’t believe his eyes.
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
Dis-moi pour qui j’existerais Tell me for whom I would exist.
Des passantes endormies dans mes bras Fleeting loves asleep in my arms
Que je n’aimerais jamais Whom I would never love.
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
Je ne serais qu’un point de plus I would only be one more point
Dans ce monde qui vient et qui va In this world that comes and goes,
Je me sentirais perdu I would feel lost,
J’aurais besoin de toi I would need you.
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
Dis-moi comment j’existerais Tell me how I would exist.
Je pourrais faire semblant d’être moi I could pretend to be me,
Mais je ne serais pas vrai But I wouldn’t be real.
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
Je crois que je l’aurais trouvé I think I would have found it,
Le secret de la vie, le pourquoi The secret of life, the why,
Simplement pour te créer Simply to create you,
Et pour te regarder And to look at you.
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
Dis-moi pourquoi j’existerais Tell me why I would.
Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi To trail in a world without you,
Sans espoir et sans regret Without hope or regrets.
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
J’essaierais d’inventer l’amour I would try to invent love,
Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts Like a painter who sees under his fingers
Naître les couleurs du jour The colors of day come to life.
Et qui n’en revient pas And can’t believe his eyes.
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
Dis-moi pour qui j’existerais Tell me for whom I would exist.
Des passantes endormies dans mes bras Fleeting loves asleep in my arms
Que je n’aimerais jamais Whom I would never love.
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
Je ne serais qu’un point de plus I would only be one more point
Dans ce monde qui vient et qui va In this world that comes and goes,
Je me sentirais perdu I would feel lost,
J’aurais besoin de toi I would need you.
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
Dis-moi comment j’existerais Tell me how I would exist.
Je pourrais faire semblant d’être moi I could pretend to be me,
Mais je ne serais pas vrai But I wouldn’t be real.
Et si tu n’existais pas And if you didn’t exist,
Je crois que je l’aurais trouvé I think I would have found it,
Le secret de la vie, le pourquoi The secret of life, the why,
Simplement pour te créer Simply to create you,
Et pour te regarder And to look at you.
Hai Van Pass, South Vietnam 1968. This was a very dangerous road. We lost a lot of men taking and holding this road. Our unit repaired and completed the road through the pass connecting Da Nang and Hue.
Our MommaSan was part french and stood a head taller than all of the other MommaSans. She cleaned our "Hooch" every day, washed our clothes, and cleaned our boots. One day she got into a fight with another MommaSan that was helping herself to our clothes that were drying on a line. She won! 
Destruction 
School kids. This was taken in the old Imperial Capital of Hue. The Palace wall is on the left.
Black Market. These little roadside markets were everywhere. They seemed to have more beer, cokes, and Winstons than our PX.
Machine Gun M60 at Work
MASH Unit near DMZ
Grass Cart
Lambretta Taxi
Rocketed PX. This is our PX the morning after it and everything in it was destroyed by Viet Cong 122mm Rockets. Fortunately no one was hurt.
Our PX was rocketed and the fire burned everything in the building including this brand new REEL TO REEL tape deck.
Standing Guard
Da Nang Stoplight
This child was selling these matted photographs in the local market.
Marine AMTRAC
Shooting Range
Walking To School
Loneliness
Pontoon Bridge
Royal Palace
