Les feuilles mortes (English translation)

Artist: Yves Montand (Ivo Livi)
Song: Les feuilles mortes 26 translations
Translations: Arabic #1, #2, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, English #1, #2, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian #1, #2, Italian (Central dialects), Latvian, Persian #1, #2, #3, Romanian #1, #2, Russian, Serbian #1, #2, Spanish #1, #2, #3, Turkish
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French

Les feuilles mortes

Oh ! je voudrais tant que tu te souviennes

Des jours heureux où nous étions amis.

En ce temps-là la vie était plus belle,

Et le soleil plus brûlant qu'aujourd'hui.

Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle.

Tu vois, je n'ai pas oublié...

Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle,

Les souvenirs et les regrets aussi

Et le vent du nord les emporte

Dans la nuit froide de l'oubli.

Tu vois, je n'ai pas oublié

La chanson que tu me chantais.

Refrain :

C'est une chanson qui nous ressemble.

Toi, tu m'aimais et je t'aimais

Et nous vivions tous les deux ensemble,

Toi qui m'aimais, moi qui t'aimais.

Mais la vie sépare ceux qui s'aiment,

Tout doucement, sans faire de bruit

Et la mer efface sur le sable

les pas des amants désunis.

Submitted by

bellargent on Wed, 13/05/2009 - 18:42

English translationEnglish

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Dead leaves

Versions: #1#2

Oh, I wish you'd remember.

Happy days when we were friends.

In those days life was better,

And the sun is hotter than today.

Dead leaves are picked up by the shovel.

You see, I haven't forgotten...

Dead leaves are picked up by the shovel,

Memories and regrets too

And the north wind carries them away

In the cold night of oblivion.

See, I haven't forgotten

The song you used to sing me.

Chorus :

It's a song that looks like us.

You loved me and I loved you

And we both lived together,

You who loved me, I who loved you.

But life separates those who love each other,

Slowly, quietly and quietly

And the sea erases on the sand

the footsteps of broken lovers

Submitted by

Mattéo. D on Sun, 26/08/2018 - 21:08

thanked 29 times

More translations of "Les feuilles mortes "

Arabic Cyrus Marvy

Arabic mehmut.abdilmoti

Chinese Shampoo

Croatian Guest

Dutch fcolstee

English Cyrus Marvy

English Mattéo. D

German Celibaste

Greek Élisabetk

Hebrew utaa3

Italian Ghosts with just voices_

Italian Alessandro Rascelli

Italian (Central dialects) Massimo Morroni

Latvian vilkacis

Persian Cyrus Marvy

Persian Mehr Banoo

Persian ehsanalikhani

Romanian corneliu.hututui

Romanian licorna.din.vis

Russian A.S.M

Serbian Lidija R

Serbian Gavrilo Došen

Spanish blacklune

Spanish chemazzo

Spanish KAIROS 42

Turkish nuripinar

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Comments

Preslynn

Mon, 20/05/2019 - 23:37

I'm in love with this translation. Though nothing could ever fully capture the beauty of the original French song, this comes close enough.

Just one tiny thing--In English you can't really say "In those days life was better, and the sun is hotter than today". It would both be in past tense---> "In those days life was better, and the sun was hotter than today". The sun was hot then, but it isn't as hot today. I hope the whole why it is that way makes sense.

You could even structure it like in the original French --> "In those days life was better, and the sun hotter than today".

Thank you again for the translation