Charles Aznavour
Reste lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1964
- Genre
- French Pop, Ballad
- Length
- 1:53
Ce soir le vent qui frappe á ma porte
Tonight the wind that knocks at my door
Me parle des amours mortes
Speaks to me of loves that are no more
Devant le feu qui s' éteint
Before the fire that is burning out
Ce soir c'est une chanson d' automne
Tonight it's an autumn song, no doubt
Dans la maison qui frissonne
In the house that shivers in the cold
Et je pense aux jours lointains
And I think of days from long ago
Que reste-t-il de nos amours
What remains of our love affair?
Que reste-t-il de ces beaux jours
What remains of those lovely days fair?
Une photo, vieille photo
A photo, an old photograph
De ma jeunesse
Of my youth, I can't help but laugh
Que reste-t-il des billets doux
What remains of sweet letters
Des mois d' avril, des rendez-vous
Of April months, of rendezvous
Un souvenir qui me poursuit
A memory that haunts me
Sans cesse
Endlessly
Bonheur fané, cheveux au vent
Faded happiness, hair in the wind
Baisers volés, ráªves mouvants
Stolen kisses, moving dreams
Que reste-t-il de tout cela
What remains of all this
Dites-le-moi
Tell me
Un petit village, un vieux clocher
A small village, an old steeple
Un paysage si bien caché
A landscape so well hidden
Et dans un nuage le cher visage
And in a cloud, the dear face
De mon passé
Of my past
Les mots les mots tendres qu'on murmure
The tender words that we whisper
Les caresses les plus pures
The purest caresses
Les serments au fond des bois
The vows deep in the woods
Les fleurs qu'on retrouve dans un livre
The flowers we find in a book
Dont le parfum vous enivre
Whose scent intoxicates you
Se sont envolés pourquoi?
Have flown away, why?
Que reste-t-il de nos amours
What remains of our loves?
Que reste-t-il de ces beaux jours
What remains of those beautiful days?
Une photo, vieille photo
A photo, an old photo
De ma jeunesse
Of my youth
Que reste-t-il des billets doux
What remains of sweet notes
Des mois d' avril, des rendez-vous
From the months of April, from our meetings
Un souvenir qui me poursuit
A memory that haunts me
Sans cesse
Endlessly
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Key vocabulary
- á
- a
- amours
- lovesA1
- mortes
- dead
- éteint
- extinguished
- d
- of
- automne
- autumnA1
- frissonne
- shiversB1
- lointains
- distantA2
- reste-t-il
- remains he
- beaux
- handsome
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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.