Carla Bruni
On serait seuls au monde lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2014
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 2:43
On serait seuls au monde
We would be alone in the world
On jouerait à s'aimer
We would play at love
Moi je ferais la fille
I would be the girl
Et toi le chevalier
And you the knight
Tu ferais l'intrépide
You would be the daring one
Et moi la réservée
And I the reserved one
Tu ferais le timide
You would be the shy one
Et moi la délurée
And I the bold one
On serait seuls au monde
We would be alone in the world
On jouerait à s'aimer
We would play at love
Je ferais la charmante
I would be the charming one
Tu ferais le charmé
You would be the charmed one
Je ferais la distante
I would be the distant one
Toi le désemparé
You the helpless one
Je ferais la brûlante
I would be the burning one
Toi tu ferais l'inquiet
You would be the anxious one
On serait rien que nous
It would just be us
On jouerait à l'amour
We would play at love
On se ferait sourire
We would make each other smile
On se jouerait des tours
We would play tricks on each other
On saura contourner
We'll find a way around
Les orages d'ennui
The storms of boredom
On dirait qu'on serait
It seems like we would be
Des amoureux transis
Love-struck lovers
On dirait qu'on serait
It seems like we would be
Jamais toujours les mêmes
Never quite the same
Jamais ceux qu'on croyait
Never who we believed
Jamais ceux qui s'enchaînent
Never the ones who are bound
Jamais ceux qui se mentent
Never the ones who lie to themselves
Qui se doivent des mots
Who owe each other words
Ceux pour qui ce n'est rien
Those for whom it means nothing
De s'aimer tellement trop
To love each other so much
On dirait qu'on serait
It feels like we would be
Comme des inventeurs
Like inventors
Comme des naufragés
Like castaways
Des noyés de douceur
Drowned in sweetness
Comme des assoiffés
Like the thirsty ones
Des jamais endormis
Never asleep
On dirait qu'on serait
It feels like we would be
Des amoureux à vie
Lovers for life
On serait seuls au monde
We would be alone in the world
On jouerait à s'aimer
We would play at loving each other
Je serais tout à fait
I would be just how
Tel que tu me voudrais
You want me to be
Je serais ta si douce
I would be your sweet
Tu me prendrais la main
You would take my hand
Tu t'glisserais sous ma jupe
You’d slip under my skirt
Et moi j'te dirais rien
And I would say nothing to you
Tu t'glisserais sous ma jupe
You’d slip under my skirt
Et moi j'te dirais rien
And I would say nothing to you
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Key vocabulary
- réservée
- reservedB2
- désemparé
- desperateC2
- serait
- would be
- jouerait
- would play
- délurée
- wild
- brûlante
- burningB1
- saura
- will know
- orages
- stormsB1
- ennui
- boredom
- ceux
- those
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About this song
Carla Bruni is a French singer-songwriter and former supermodel, associated with chanson française. She is known for her chart-topping debut album Quelqu’un m’a dit (2002) and her subsequent No. 1 releases Comme si de rien n’etait (2008), alongside collaborations with artists including Harry Connick Jr., Marianne Faithfull, and Willie Nelson.