Patrick Bruel
Au Café des délices lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1999
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 4:44
Tes souvenirs se voilent
Your memories are shrouded
Ça fait comme une éclipse
It's like an eclipse
Une nuit plein d'étoiles
A night full of stars
Sur le port de Tunis
On the port of Tunis
Le vent de l'éventail
The wind of the fan
De ton grand-père assis
Of your grandfather seated
Au Café des délices
At the Café of delights
Tes souvenirs se voilent
Your memories are shrouded
Tu vois passer le tram
You see the tram passing by
Et la blancheur des voiles
And the whiteness of the sails
Des femmes tenant un fils
Women holding a son
Et l'odeur du jasmin
And the smell of jasmine
Qu'il tenait dans ses mains
That he held in his hands
Au Café des délices
At the Café of delights
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, my love, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, my love, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, my love, yalil
Yalil, yalil, yalil
Tes souvenirs se voilent
Your memories fade
Tu la revois la fille
You see her again, the girl
Le baiser qui fait mal
The kiss that hurts
À Port El Kantaoui
In Port El Kantaoui
Les premiers mots d'amour
The first words of love
Sur des chansons velours
On velvet songs
Habibi, habibi
Tes souvenirs se voilent
Your memories cloud over
Tu les aimais ces fruits
You loved those fruits
Les noyaux d'abricot
The apricot pits
Pour toi, c'étaient des billes
For you, they were marbles
Et les soirées de fête
And the festive evenings
Qu'on faisait dans nos têtes
What we dreamed in our minds
Aux plages d'Hammamet
On the beaches of Hammamet
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Tes souvenirs se voilent
Your memories become blurred
À l'avant du bateau
At the front of the boat
Et ce quai qui s'éloigne
And this quay that drifts away
Vers un monde nouveau
Towards a new world
Une vie qui s'arrête
A life that comes to a halt
Pour un jour qui commence
For a day that begins
C'est peut-être une chance
It might just be a chance
Yalil, yalil tu n'oublieras pas
Yalil, yalil you will not forget
Yalil, yalil ces parfums d'autrefois
Yalil, yalil those scents of yesteryear
Yalil, yalil tu n'oublieras pas
Yalil, yalil you will not forget
Yalil, yalil même si tu t'en vas
Yalil, yalil even if you leave
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, darling, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, darling, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, darling, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, darling, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, darling, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, darling, yalil
Une nuit plein d'étoiles
A night full of stars
Sur le port de Tunis
On the port of Tunis
Et la blancheur des voiles
And the whiteness of the sails
Des femmes tenant un fils
Women holding a son
Le vent de l'éventail
The breeze of the fan
De ton grand-père assis
Of your grandfather sitting
Et l'odeur du jasmin
And the scent of jasmine
Qu'il tenait dans ses mains
That he held in his hands
Au Café des délices
At the Café of delights
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Au Café des délices
At the Café of delights
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, darling, yalil
Au Café des délices
At the Café of delights
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, darling, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, darling, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, darling, yalil
Yalil, yalil, habibi, yalil
Yalil, yalil, darling, yalil
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Key vocabulary
- café
- coffeeA1
- plages
- beachesA1
- avant
- before
- bateau
- boatA1
- voilent
- veil
- el
- he
- amour
- love
- peut-être
- maybeA1
- oublieras
- you will forget
- parfums
- perfumeA1
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About this song
Patrick Bruel is a French singer and actor known for his prominence in 1990s pop and his later work in traditional French chanson. He rose to commercial success with the number one single “Alors Regarde” and has also maintained a parallel career in film, including César-nominated acting for Le Prénom.