Charles Aznavour
Il fallait bien lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 1966
- Genre
- Chanson
- Length
- 2:18
Il fallait bien que me vienne un jour
It was bound to come to me one day
Ce mal soudain qu'on appelle l'amour
This sudden pain they call love
Il fallait bien que je crois en lui
I had to believe in it
Pour qu'un matin il me laisse meurtri
So that one morning it would leave me bruised
L'amour s'en vient, l'amour se meurt
Love comes and love dies
À peine un rire et puis des pleurs
Barely a laugh and then tears
Et le silence autour de moi
And the silence around me
Le souvenir qui naît déjà
The memory that is already born
L'amour était si beau près de toi
Love was so beautiful near you
Il fallait bien te serrer très fort
I had to hold you very tight
Tenir tes mains pour te garder encore
Holding your hands to keep you near
Il fallait bien m'accrocher à toi
I had to cling to you tightly
Lorsque plus rien ne retenait mes pas
When nothing was holding back my steps
Il fallait bien sauver mon bonheur
I had to save my happiness
Par les moyens que me laissaient mon cœur
By the means that my heart allowed me
Ils brûlent les feux de l'enfer
They burn the fires of hell
Et dans mon âme et dans ma chair
And in my soul and in my flesh
Tu ne m'as laissé que regrets
You left me with nothing but regrets
Et le remord de n'avoir fait
And the remorse of not having done
Peut-être pas tout ce qu'il fallait
Perhaps not everything that was needed
Il fallait bien en payer le prix
I had to pay the price somehow
Et mon chagrin vient de briser ma vie
And my sorrow has shattered my life
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Key vocabulary
- brûlent
- burn
- feux
- fires
- enfer
- hell
- mal
- badlyA1
- crois
- I believeA1
- matin
- morningA1
- laisse
- leashA1
- peine
- painA1
- naît
- is bornA1
- déjà
- alreadyA1
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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.