Love Is Blindness: love is blind, it numbs the senses and reason, it is merciless; it is a mechanism, an abandonment, a tearing apart, an ecstasy, a drowning; it is the night that falls over everything that isn’t love, it is wanting nothing more than to be enveloped in this night… The song is a step into this night, it is at once a necklace of metaphors of what love inflicts and a conscious renunciation of the desire to protect oneself from it.

En aveugle (blindly) : « en aveugle, je plonge »/“blindly, I dive,” these are the words on which the song opens in French; this is a deliberate blindness – just like in the original text –, a conscious choice to close one’s eyes rather than being blinded. To dive here is to take a risk, fully aware of what one might leave behind, of what one could be called upon to deny, of the great winds that could rise, of the dam that could break. It is this letting go in the face of what is imperative in the feeling of love that I wanted to give new words; a gentle capitulation, which is also a serene resolution, an acceptance to yield to what is greater than oneself.