Charles Aznavour
Jézébel lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1952
- Genre
- French Pop, Ballad
- Length
- 2:36
Ce démon qui brûlait mon cœur
This demon that burned my heart
Cet ange qui séchait mes pleurs
This angel who dried my tears
C'était toi
It was you
Jezebel, c'était toi
Jezebel, it was you
Ces larmes transpercées de joie
These tears pierced by joy
Jezebel, c'était toi
Jezebel, it was you
Jezebel, c'était toi
Jezebel, it was you
Mais l'amour est anéanti
But love is obliterated
Tout s'est écroulé sur ma vie
Everything collapsed upon my life
Écrasant, piétinant
Crushing, trampling
Emportant mon cœur
Taking my heart away
Jezebel, mais pour toi
Jezebel, but for you
Je ferai le tour de la terre
I will go around the world
J'irai jusqu'au fond des enfers
I will go to the depths of hell
Où es-tu?
Where are you?
Jezebel, où es-tu?
Jezebel, where are you?
Les souvenirs que l'on croit fannés
The memories we think have faded
Sont des êtres vivants
Are living beings
Avec des yeux de mort
With eyes of death
Vibrant encore
Still vibrating
De passé
Of the past
Mon cœur est perdu d'obsessions
My heart is lost in obsessions
Il bat en répétant
It beats, repeating
Tout au fond de moi-même
Deep down inside me
Ce mot que j'aime
That word I love
Ton nom
Your name
Mais l'amour est anéanti
But love is annihilated
Tout s'est écroulé sur ma vie
Everything has crumbled in my life
Écrasant, piétinant
Crushing, trampling
Emportant mon cœur
Carrying away my heart
Jezebel, mais pour toi
Jezebel, but for you
Je ferai le tour de la terre
I will travel around the world
J'irai jusqu'au fond des enfers
I'll go to the depths of hell
En criant jour et nuit
Screaming day and night
Sans répit
Without rest
Jezebel
Jezebel
Jezebel
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Key vocabulary
- mort
- deathA1
- nom
- nameA1
- écroulé
- collapsedB2
- enfers
- hellB2
- démon
- demonB2
- brûlait
- burned
- cœur
- heartA1
- ange
- angelB1
- séchait
- dried
- pleurs
- tears
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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.