Charles Aznavour
Si je n’avais plus lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1959
- Genre
- Chanson
- Length
- 2:51
Si je n'avais plus
If I had no more
Si je n'avais plus
If I had no more
Plus qu'une heure à vivre
Just one hour to live
Une heure et pas plus
One hour and no more
Je voudrais la vivre
I would want to live it
Au creux de ton lit
In the curve of your bed
Car j'aurais ma mie
For I would have my darling
Ma peur à combattre
My fear to fight
Penché sur ta vie
Leaning over your life
Pour l'entendre battre
To hear it beat
Je pourrais garder
I could keep
Je pourrais garder
I could keep
Au fond de mon cœur
Deep in my heart
Sous la terre froide
Under the cold earth
Un peu de chaleur
A bit of warmth
Que j'emporterais
That I would carry away
Si je n'avais plus
If I had no more
Si je n'avais plus
If I had no more
Plus qu'une heure à vivre
Only an hour to live
Une heure et pas plus
An hour and nothing more
Je voudrais la vivre
I would like to live it
A l'aube d'un jour
At the dawn of a day
Sur un lit d'amour
On a bed of love
Pour n'avoir à dire
So that I only have to say
Que des mots d'amour
Sweet words of love
Pour te voir sourire
To see you smile
Et ne plus penser
And no longer think
Et ne plus penser
And no longer think
Qu'un autre après moi
That someone after me
Te verras sourire
Will see you smile
Qu'un autre après moi
That another after me
Pourra t'enlacer
Will be able to embrace you
Et dans un baiser
And in a kiss
Et dans un baiser
And in a kiss
Le corps apaisé
The body at peace
Le cœur allégé
The heart unburdened
D'un million de doutes
Of a million doubts
Mon dernier sommeil
My final sleep
M'ouvrira la route
Will open the way for me
Qui mène au soleil
That leads to the sun
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Key vocabulary
- froide
- coldA1
- garder
- keepA1
- heure
- hourA1
- lit
- bedA1
- peu
- fewA1
- voir
- seeA1
- chaleur
- heatB1
- voudrais
- would like
- aurais
- would have
- entendre
- hear
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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.