
Charles Aznavour
Dors lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1963
- Genre
- French Pop, Ballad
- Length
- 3:05
Tu as tout pour être aimée
You have everything to be loved
Visage et corps sans défauts
Face and body without flaws
Des milliers de qualités
Thousands of qualities
Et vertu plus qu'il n'en faut
And virtue more than enough
Mais, car il y a un mais
But, because there is a but
Qui remet tout en question
That questions everything
Dès que tu es éveillée
As soon as you wake up
Et jusque sous l'édredon, ah
And even under the comforter, ah
Tu ne fais que discuter
You just want to argue
Moi je n'ai pas de répit
I have no rest
Et plus je t'entends parler
And the more I hear you speak
Et plus je bénis les nuits
The more I bless the nights
Où tu dors, dors, dors mon amour
Where you sleep, sleep, sleep my love
Dors, quand tu dors, je t'adore mon amour
Sleep, when you sleep, I adore you my love
Dans un sursaut d'énergie
In a burst of energy
Je te demande souvent
I often ask you
"Veux-tu t'arrêter chérie"
"Do you want to stop, darling?"
Tu me réponds gentiment
You reply gently to me
"Tu n'entendras plus ma voix
"You won't hear my voice anymore
Je ne dis plus rien du tout"
I won't say anything at all"
Pourtant c'est plus fort que toi
Yet it's stronger than you
Tu ne peux tenir le coup
You can't hold on
Et quelques instants plus tard
And a moment later
Tu recommences à parler
You start to speak again
Et continue jusqu'au soir
And you go on until the evening
Où tu t'écroules épuisée
When you collapse, exhausted
Et tu dors, dors, dors mon amour
And you sleep, sleep, sleep my love
Dors, quand tu dors, je t'adore mon amour
Sleep, when you sleep, I adore you my love
Mais comme nous nous aimons
But oh how we love each other
Beaucoup plus qu'à la folie
Much more than madness
Je te fais des concessions
I make concessions for you
Car j'en ai pris mon parti
Because I've accepted my fate
Pourtant je songe parfois
Yet sometimes I think
Qu'une petite aphonie
That a small loss of voice
Un rien d'extinction de voix
A hint of silence in my speech
Changerait toute ma vie, oh
Would change my whole life, oh
Ces choses-là je le sais
I know these things
Sont des rêves sans espoir
Are dreams without hope
Mais j'ai un rêve secret
But I have a secret dream
C'est de devenir plus tard
It's to become later
Sourd, sourd, complètement sourd mon amour
Deaf, deaf, completely deaf my love
Quoi, hein, non chérie, parle plus distinctement
What, huh, no baby, speak more clearly
Je n'comprends pas très bien c'que tu dis
I don't quite understand what you're saying
Je suis sur tes lèvres
I’m on your lips
Non, non, non, dis, dis-moi, dis-moi
No, no, no, tell, tell me, tell me
Mais oui, non, non, attends, attends, attends
But yes, no, no, wait, wait, wait
Attends une seconde
Wait a second
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Key vocabulary
- fort
- strongA1
- jusque
- untilA1
- rêve
- dreamA1
- rêves
- dreamsA1
- rien
- nothingA1
- soir
- eveningA1
- aimée
- beloved
- corps
- bodyA2
- défauts
- flawsB2
- milliers
- thousandsB1
About this song
Charles Aznavour was a French-Armenian singer and actor whose music blended French chanson with Eastern European folk, American jazz, tango, and Middle Eastern influences. He was known for a long-running career marked by thousands of recordings and his songwriting, composing or co-composing over a thousand songs for himself and other artists.