Charles Aznavour
O toi la vie lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1963
- Genre
- French Pop, Ballad
- Length
- 2:28
Ô toi la vie
Oh you, life
Que je porte en souffrant
That I carry while suffering
Comme on porte un enfant
Like one carries a child
Donne-moi l'amour et l'argent
Give me love and money
Ma vie aux voies impénétrables
My life on impenetrable paths
Fais que de grain de sable
Make it from grains of sand
Je devienne géant
I become giant
Ô toi, la vie
Oh you, life
Dont je ne connais rien
Of which I know nothing
Qui fuit entre mes mains
Who slips between my hands
J'appréhende tes lendemains
I dread your tomorrows
Ma vie, j'ai peur que ta jeunesse
My life, I fear your youth
Un matin disparaisse
Will vanish one morning
Me laissant sur ma faim
Leaving me hungry for more
Tu sais la vie
You know life
Je ne t'ai pas cherchée
I didn't seek you out
C'est toi qui t'es donnée
It was you who offered yourself
Comme une fille en mal d'aimer
Like a girl longing for love
Je peux, depuis
I can, since then
Me vautrer dans tes bras
Surrender myself in your arms
Faire un feu de tes joies et l'amour avec toi
Make a fire of your joys and love with you
La vie
Life
Pour te serrer très fort
To hold you very tight
Et réchauffer mon corps
And warm my body
Et te garder longtemps encore
And keep you long yet
Je suis un enfant de la terre
I am a child of the earth
Un passant solitaire
A solitary passerby
Aux mains tendues vers toi
With hands stretched out towards you
Ne m'abandonne pas
Don't abandon me
Tu sais, je crois en toi
You know, I believe in you
En toi, la vie
In you, life
La vie
Life
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Key vocabulary
- souffrant
- suffering
- donne-moi
- give me
- amour
- love
- argent
- money
- impénétrables
- impenetrable
- sable
- sandA2
- devienne
- become
- connais
- know
- appréhende
- apprehend
- disparaisse
- disappear
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.