If I had known how to love you

French → English translation for the song "si j'avais su t'aimer" by Chimène Badi lyrics.

Submitted by Guest on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 13:23


French

si j'avais su t'aimer

Si j'avais su t'aimer
Avec des habitudes
Des petits déjeuners
Au lit d'la solitude

Si j'avais su te dire
Avec exactitude
Ce qui me fait mourir
De tant d'incertitudes

Si j'avais su t'aimer
Comme on aime ce qu'on cache
Comme on voudrait prier
Pour que rien ne se détache

Si j'avais su t'écrire
Ce qu'il faut que tu saches
J'aurais été moins pire
J'aurais été moins lâche

J'aurais refusé d'etre sage
J'aurais donné bien davantage
De lumière à ton paysage
Si j'avais su
Si j'avais seulement vu sur ton visage
Ce qu'il faut d'amour et de rage
Si j'avais su, si j'avais su te mettre à nu

Si j'avais su t'aimer
Avant de te connaître
Avant de t'oublier
J'aurais menti peut-etre

Si j'avais su mentir
Mentir ou disparaître
Apprendre à devenir
Une femme à la fenetre

J'aurais refusé d'etre sage
J'aurais donné bien davantage
De lumière à ton paysage
Si j'avais su
Si j'avais seulement vu sur ton visage
Ce qu'il faut d'amour et de rage
Si j'avais su, si j'avais su te mettre à nu

Si j'avais seulement vu sur ton visage
Ce qu'il faut d'amour et de rage
Si j'avais su, si j'avais su te mettre à nu

Si j'avais su t'aimer
Avant de te connaître
Avant de t'oublier
J'aurais brûlé ma lettre

English

If I had known how to love you

I I had know how to love you
With certainty
Breakfasts
All alone in bed

If I had know what to tell you
With precision
What it is that makes me die
Of uncertainty

If I had known how to love you
How one loves the things one hides
How one would like to pray
That nothing will fall apart

If had known how to write to you
Everything you need to know
I would have been better off
I would have been less cowardly

I would have refused to be wise
I would have given more
Sun to your land
If I had known
If I had seen in your face
The love and the hate it takes
If I had known, If I had known how to open your heart

If I had known how to love you
Before getting to know you
Before forgetting you
I would have lied maybe

If I had known how to lie
To lie or to disappear
To learn how to become
A woman at the window

I would have refused to be wise
I would have given more
Sun to your land
If I had known
If I had seen in your face
The love and the hate it takes
If I had known, If I had known how to open your heart

If I had seen in your face
The love and the hate it takes
If I had known, If I had known how to open your heart

If I had known how to love you
Before getting to know you
Before forgetting you
I would have burnt my letter



     
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