And if you didn't exist (were not alive)

Artist: Joe Dassin
Song: Et Si Tu N'existais Pas
Translation: French → English
Submitted by cortom on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 00:00
Translations: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian #1, #2, #3, Croatian, Dutch, English #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, Finnish, Greek #1, #2, Hebrew, Italian, Macedonian #1, #2, Persian #1, #2, #3, Polish #1, #2, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian #1, #2, Serbian #1, #2, Spanish, Turkish #1, #2

French

Et Si Tu N'existais Pas

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

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

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

English

And if you didn't exist (were not alive)

Versions: #1 #2#3#4 #5 #6

And if you didn't exist (were not alive)
Tell me, why should I [exist]
To roam in world without you
Without hope [and] without regret
And if you didn't exist
I would try to invent love
Like a painter, who sees, from beneath his fingers,
the day's colours being born
and wonders about them

And if you didn't exist
Tell me, why should I [exist]
Passing girls, asleep in my arms
That I would never love
And if you didn't exist
I would only be one other dot
in this world, that comes and goes
I would feel lost
I would need you

And if you didn't exist
Tell me, how could I
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

And if you didn't exist
Tell me why should I [exist]
To roam in a world without you
Without hope, [and] without regret
And if you didn't exixt
I would try to invent love
Like a painter who sees, beneath his fingers
The day's colours being born
and wonders about them