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Et Si Tu N'Existais Pas / 假如你未曾出現過

This is one of my two favorites by Joe Dassin. The other is L'été Indien.


Lyrics Translate is a great website. For this song only, there are 65 more other languages of translation. I checked only English and Chinese translation.


Et si tu n'existais pas,

dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais.

Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi,

sans espoir et sans regret.

Et si tu n'existais pas,

j'essaierais d'inventer l'amour

comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts

naître les couleurs du jour,

et qui n'en revient pas.


And if you didn't exist

Tell me why I should exist

To drag along in a world without you

Without hope and without regret

And if you didn't exist

I would try to invent love

As a painter who sees from beneath his fingers

the day's colours being born

and wonders about them.


Et si tu n'existais pas,

dis-moi pour qui j'existerais.

Des passantes endormies dans mes bras

que je n'aimerais jamais.

Et si tu n'existais pas,

je ne serais qu'un point de plus

dans ce monde qui vient et qui va,

je me sentirais perdu.

J'aurais besoin de toi.


And if you didn't exist

Tell me why I should exist

Passing girls, asleep in my arms

That I would never love

And if you didn't exist

I would only be another dot

in this world, which comes and goes

I would feel lost

I would need you


Et si tu n'existais pas,

dis-moi comment j'existerais.

Je pourrais faire semblant d'être moi,

mais je ne serais pas vrai.

Et si tu n'existais pas,

je crois que je l'aurais trouvé,

le secret de la vie, le pourquoi

simplement pour te créer,

et pour te regarder.


And if you didn't exist

Tell me how I would

I could pretend to be me

But it wouldn't be true

And if you didn't exist

I think that I would have found

The secret of life, the WHY

Only to create you

And to look at you




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