| Francis Cabrel – Je T'Aimais Je T'Aime Et Je T'Aimerai Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The heaven claims to know you, and while truly sublime, it never comes near, though I've seen it captured in your rays. |
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| Francis Cabrel – Je T'Aimais Je T'Aime Et Je T'Aimerai Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The heaven claims to know you, and while truly sublime, it never comes near, though I've seen it captured in your rays. |
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| Francis Cabrel – Je T'Aimais Je T'Aime Et Je T'Aimerai Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The heaven claims to know you, and while truly sublime, it never comes near, though I've seen it captured in your rays. |
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| Francis Cabrel – Je T'Aimais Je T'Aime Et Je T'Aimerai Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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My child, you lie bare on the pebbles, the wind breezing through your undone hair, like the springtime in the course (that is my life), a diamond fallen out of the treasure box. Only the Light itself could erase the secret marks of my fingertips on your wrists. I loved you, I still love you and always will. And regardless of what you do, there is Love wherever you look - in the smallest recesses of space and the briefest dreams where you linger. Love - as if it poured bare onto the pebbles. The heaven claims to know you, and while truly sublime, it never comes near, but I've seen it captured within the fabric of your light. The world is full of regrets, full of unfulfilled promises, but, your are the only one for which I was created I loved you, I still love you and always will. And regardless of what you do, there is love wherever you look - in the smallest recesses of space and the briefest dreams where you linger. Love - as if it poured bare onto the pebbles. We will take flight from the same pier with same reflections in our eyes, in this life and in the one thereafter you will remain my only opus. I will go to paint your portrait on all the ceilings of every palace, and all the walls that I am able to find. Beneath them all I will sign that Only the Light itself could... And my fingertips on your wrists I loved you, I still love you and always will... |
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| Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Incidentally, in my opinion there is another, newer, French song that rivals Brel's Ne Me Quitte Pas in intensity of emotion and love expressed (although it is more positive). It is Francis Cabrel's Je T'aimais, Je T'aime et Je T'Aimerai. Another legend... | |
| Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Do not leave me. One must forget that which is bygone. Everything can be forgotten - The instances of misunderstandings and all the moments lost. Knowing how to forget the hours that sometimes killed the essence (or the very heart) of happiness - with all the doubts (or why's). Do not leave me... (4x) |
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| Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Thanks Venus in Mohair - I agree with you. So, as another American who speaks 6 languages, I would like to say that the above translations - more or less literal - fail to capture the passion that is expressed in the French original, which is why I would translate it (albeit more liberally), as follows: Do not leave me. One must forget that which is bygone. Everything can be forgotten - Forget the instances of misunderstandings and of the moments lost. Knowing how to forget the hours that sometimes killed the very heart of happiness - with all their Why's. Do not leave me. (4x) I will offer you pearls made of raindrops, found in countries where it never rains. I will traverse the Earth, until after I'm gone, only to cover your body with gold and with sunlight. I will establish a kingdom where Love will be king, where Love will rule, and you will be Queen. Do not leave me. (4x) Do not leave me. I will invent for you nonsensical words which only you will understand. I will tell you stories about the lovers whose hearts have been twice ablaze, and of that king who died for not having met you. Do not leave me. One has often seen a fire erupting out an ancient volcano, thought to be extinct. And it seems that a scorched earth could give more wheat than in the best of springs. And when the evening falls do the red and the black not unite in order for sky to be set aflame? Do not leave me. Do not leave me. I will no longer cry. I will no longer talk. I will just hide where I can look at you dance and smile, and listen to you sing and then laugh. Let me become the shadow of your shadow the shadow of your hand the shadow of your dog. Do not leave me. (4x) |
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