Charles Aznavour
Sa jeunesse entre ses mains lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1957
- Genre
- French Pop, Ballad
- Length
- 3:04
Lorsque l'on tient entre ses mains
When we hold in our hands
Cette richesse, avoir 20 ans
This wealth, being 20 years old
Des lendemains pleins de promesses
Tomorrow’s mornings full of promises
Quand l'amour sur nous se penche
When love leans over us
Pour nous offrir ses nuits blanches
To offer us its sleepless nights
Lorsque l'on voit, loin devant soi
When we see, far ahead of us
Rire la vie, brodée d'espoir
Life laughing, embroidered with hope
Riche de joies et de folies
Rich in joys and madness
Il faut boire jusqu'à l'ivresse
We must drink until intoxication
Sa jeunesse
Our youth
Car tous les instants de nos 20 ans
For all the moments of our twenties
Nous sont comptés, et jamais plus
Are numbered, and never again
Le temps perdu ne nous fait face
Lost time does not confront us
Il passe
It passes
Souvent en vain, on tend les mains
Often in vain, we reach out
Et l'on regrette, il est trop tard
And we regret, it’s too late
Sur son chemin, rien ne l'arrête
On its path, nothing stops it
On ne peut garder sans cesse
We cannot hold on forever
Sa jeunesse
To our youth
Avant que de sourire et nous quittons l'enfance
Before we smile and leave childhood behind
Avant que de savoir la jeunesse s'en fuit
Before knowing, youth slips away
Cela semble si court que l'on est tout surpris
It seems so brief that we are all taken aback
Qu'avant que de comprendre on quitte l'existence
That before we understand, we leave existence
Souvent en vain, on tend les mains
Often in vain, we reach out our hands
Et l'on regrette, il est trop tard
And we regret, it's too late
Sur son chemin, rien ne l'arrête
On its path, nothing can stop it
On ne peut garder sans cesse
We cannot hold on forever
Sa jeunesse
To our youth
Sa jeunesse
To our youth
Sa jeunesse
To our youth
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Key vocabulary
- jamais
- neverA1
- jeunesse
- youthA1
- mains
- handsA1
- nuits
- nightsA1
- offrir
- offerA1
- pleins
- fullA1
- riche
- richA1
- rire
- laughA1
- promesses
- promisesB2
- amour
- love
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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.