12.01.2018
The one I love
I know nothing beyond thinking
of boys
They know how to say
beautiful things
And when I sing them
My song
They look at me
astonished, surprised
They take me in hand
in a trembling hand
and their loving eyes
look tenderly in mine
They are very
curious sometimes
When I lean my face sweetly
toward them
They just drown
They lose their language
They are very
shy sometimes
But the one I love
is not like that
He doesn't laugh, doesn't speak
The one I love is not like that
They act like idiots
when I want to laugh
and fall to my knees
whenever I sigh
They are very
kind to me
But the one I love
Is not like that
He doesn't laugh, doesn't speak
The one I love is not like that
Because the one I love
doesn't love me
because the one I love
doesn't love me
Because the one I love
doesn't love me
12.01.2018
That makes me laugh
That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh
I'm happy, I'm happy
Life is not as you say
It's much easier
That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh
and it delights me, it delights me
You make yourself a heap of worry
but you don't have to, buddy
Never before you did I go out
Never before you did I lie
Yes but since we started going out together
It's a good thing I do
The evenings you arrange to meet me,
I invent a sleep walking story
and you believe me or you don't
It works every time
That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh
Life is beautiful, Life is so beautiful
since, by chance, I learned that I have
Not-so-dumb parents
It makes them laugh, it makes them laugh
It delights them, it delights them
Maybe twenty years ago
They did it too
One day you'll come round all prettied up
indeed, it's an old game but it's so cute
We've known each other a long time
You admit we're in love
Dad grunts as this is serious
Mom, not a word escapes her eyes
You, You'll be all intimidated
And unable to think
That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh
It's that I love you, It's that I love you
That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh
It's that I love you, It's that I love you
That makes me laugh, that makes me laugh
12.01.2018
Azima's Song
When the desert advances
It's life that retreats
Blame it on bad luck
Or god who smites us
And the desert is advancing
Nobody believes it
That's out downfall
The impossible fight
When the desert advances
What do you want us to be?
The Tuareg women dance
They don't believe it either
In their childhood memories
The hunters were there
But the desert advances
The sand becomes king
And it's our suffering
Which flows between our fingers
In these immense dunes
Who will survive
But you, who come from France
Where people drink to forget
Tell them what you think
Tell them what you see
Tell them what their chances are
And that they don't see it
And that we're dying of impotence
But we're keeping the faith
May the desert advance
And water never come
Without that deliverance
We no longer have a choice
Tell them that night is falling
On this awful emergency
And that it's on our tombs
That the desert is advancing
i hope this translation was useful to you. use it wherever, i don't mind.
i write evocative translations rather than precise ones so this might not be 'word for word'.
28.09.2017
Milk Teeth, Wolf teeth
(France Gall)
Milk teeth
(Serge Gainsbourg)
Wolf teeth
(France Gall)
Milk teeth
(Serge Gainsbourg)
Wolf teeth
You are just a baby
Nothing but a baby wolf
You have milk teeth
Wolf teeth
(France Gall)
Yes, I am a baby
Nothing but a baby wolf
Yes, I have milk teeth
Wolf milk teeth
Milk teeth
(Serge Gainsbourg)
Wolf teeth
(France Gall)
Milk teeth
(Serge Gainsbourg)
Wolf teeth
Yes, you are just a baby
Nothing but a baby wolf
You have milk teeth
Wolf teeth
(France Gall)
Yes, I am a baby
Nothing but a baby wolf
Yes, I have milk teeth
Wolf milk teeth