Françoise Hardy
Comment te dire adieu lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1968
- Genre
- Chanson
- Length
- 2:29
Sous aucun prétexte
Under no circumstance
Je ne veux
I do not want
Avoir de réflexes
To have reflexes
Malheureux
Unhappy
Il faut que tu m'expliques
You need to explain to me
Un peu mieux
A little better
Comment te dire adieu
How to say goodbye to you
Mon cœur de silex
My heart of flint
Vite prend feu
Quickly ignites
Ton cœur de pyrex
Your heart of pyrex
Résiste au feu
Resist the fire
Je suis bien perplexe
I am quite perplexed
Je ne veux
I don't want
Me résoudre aux adieux
To resign myself to goodbyes
Je sais bien qu'un ex-amour n'a pas de chance, ou si peu
I know well that a past love has little chance, or so little
Mais pour moi une explication voudrait mieux
But for me, an explanation would be better
Sous aucun prétexte
Under no circumstances
Je ne veux
I don't want
Devant toi surexposer mes yeux
To excessively expose my eyes before you
Derrière un kleenex
Behind a tissue
Je saurais mieux
I would know better
Comment te dire adieu
How to say goodbye to you
Comment te dire adieu
How to say goodbye to you
Tu as mis à l'index nos nuits blanches, nos matins gris-bleu
You've put our sleepless nights, our gray-blue mornings on the shelf
Mais pour moi une explication voudrait mieux
But for me, an explanation would be better
Sous aucun prétexte
Under no circumstances
Je ne veux
I don't want
Devant toi surexposer mes yeux
To overly expose my eyes in front of you
Derrière un kleenex
Behind a tissue
Je saurais mieux
I would know better
Comment te dire adieu
How can I say goodbye to you
Comment te dire adieu
How can I say goodbye to you
Comment te dire adieu
How can I say goodbye to you
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Key vocabulary
- aucun
- noneA1
- prétexte
- pretextB2
- veux
- want
- réflexes
- reflexesB2
- faut
- must
- expliques
- explain
- comment
- howA1
- perplexe
- perplexedB2
- résoudre
- solveB2
- malheureux
- unhappyA2
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About this song
Françoise Hardy was a French singer-songwriter associated with yé-yé and pop. She is known for writing much of her own material and for the 1962 album Tous les garçons et les filles, including the hit title track that brought her international recognition.