Charles Aznavour
La Lumière lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1969
- Genre
- French Pop, Ballad
- Length
- 3:35
La lumière
The light
C'est un bonheur incandescent
It's an incandescent happiness
Qui coule en mon âme et mon sang
That flows in my soul and my blood
Près de toi
Close to you
La lumière
The light
C'est mille soleil inconnus
It's a thousand unknown suns
Qui m'aveuglent, offrant à ma vue
That blind me, offering my sight
Tant de joie
So much joy
La lumière
The light
Dont la clarté métamorphose
Whose clarity transforms
Le monde, les gens et les choses
The world, the people, and the things
Pour moi
For me
Quand sur un univers plus grand
When a greater universe
Les portes s'ouvrent à deux battants
Opens wide its double doors
Pour moi
For me
Et que tu es dans mes bras
And when you’re in my arms
La lumière
The light
Irradiante de tout ses feux
Radiant with all its flames
Fait que même en fermant les yeux
Means that even with my eyes closed
Je te vois
I see you
Tout prend alors une autre forme, une autre vie
Everything then takes on another shape, another life
Pour me griser, pour m'étourdir
To intoxicate me, to make me dizzy
Et sur mon corps
And on my body
Quand je te serre à l'agonie
When I hold you in agony
Tu fais entrer
You let in
Tu fais jaillir
You make burst forth
La lumière
The light
La lumière
The light
La lumière
The light
Dont la clarté métamorphose
Whose clarity metamorphoses
Le monde, les gens et les choses
The world, the people, and the things
Pour moi
For me
Quand sur un univers plus grand
When in a grander universe
Les portes s'ouvrent à deux battants
The doors swing wide open
Pour moi
For me
Et que tu es dans mes bras
And when you are in my arms
La lumière
The light
Irradiante de tout ses feux
Radiant with all its flames
Fait que même en fermant les yeux
Makes it so that even with my eyes closed
Je te vois
I can see you
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Key vocabulary
- âme
- soulB1
- coule
- flowsB1
- corps
- bodyA2
- inconnus
- unknownA2
- sang
- bloodA2
- jaillir
- burstC2
- griser
- dazzleC1
- bonheur
- happinessA1
- aveuglent
- blind
- offrant
- offering
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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.