Dalida
Mélodie perdue lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1991
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 2:47
Mélodie des jours heureux
Melody of happy days
Tu es restée là-bas
You stayed over there
Sous les toits d'un vieux faubourg
Under the roofs of an old neighborhood
Où les amours sont rois
Where loves are kings
Un violon venait la nuit
A violin came at night
Dans notre nid là-haut
In our nest up high
Nous bercer jusqu'au petit jour
Rocking us till dawn
D'une mélodie d'amour
With a melody of love
Mélodie des jours heureux
Melody of happy days
Tu es si loin, si loin
You are so far, so far
Seule amie d'un rêve enfui
Only friend of a vanished dream
Au paradis perdu
In the lost paradise
Tu n'es plus, tu n'es plus rien
You are no more, you are nothing now
Qu'un vieux refrain connu
Just an old, familiar refrain
Qui s'ennuie et traîne les rues
Bored and wandering the streets
Je ne t'entends plus
I can no longer hear you
Tu as disparu
You have disappeared
Toi, la mélodie perdue
You, the lost melody
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Key vocabulary
- mélodie
- melodyB1
- jours
- daysA1
- heureux
- happyA1
- restée
- remained
- là-bas
- over thereA1
- faubourg
- suburbB2
- toits
- roofsA1
- vieux
- oldA1
- amours
- lovesA1
- nuit
- nightA1
About this song
Dalida was a French singer and actress of Egyptian origin, associated with French pop and disco. She is known for chart records such as the long run of “Bambino” and for “J’attendrai,” the first disco hit with French lyrics.