Imagine walking into a quiet room and spotting “four words on a piano.” Those few scribbled syllables crack open the whole story: a man’s lover has vanished, leaving him to count not only the words but every regret he owns. In this bittersweet duet, Patrick Fiori and Jean-Jacques Goldman trade lines of heartache while a mysterious third voice (the woman) later reveals the impossible choice that tore them all apart. The song unpacks jealousy, self-doubt, and the nagging question “What does the other have that I don’t?” as the narrator replays four glorious years of love and the million silent moments that followed.
Beneath the catchy piano melody lies a love-triangle drama worthy of a movie: Lucifer tempts the man to “share” her, memories swirl like quatre vents (four winds), and mathematical metaphors (3 − 2 = me) tally up the loneliness left behind. When the woman finally speaks, she admits she only loved them “as a pair,” refusing to choose one over the other. The result is a poetic lesson in how fragile love can be when desire, pride, and fear collide – all sparked by those four haunting words left on a piano.