By Jaques Brell
Submitted by BlueDenim
Date: 2001 Dec 02
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Chanson Sans Paroles (Song without words)

J'aurais aime ma belle
T'ecrire une chanson
Sur cette melodie
Recontree une nuit
J'aurais aime ma belle
Rien qu'au point d'Alencon
T'ecrire un long poeme
T'ecrire un long "Je t'aime"

Je t'aurais dit "amour"
Je t'aurais dit "toujours"
Mais de mille facons
Mais par mille detours
Je t'aurais dit "partons"
Je t'aurais dit "brulons"
Brulons de jour en jour
De saisons en saisons

Mais le temps qui s'allume
L'idee sur la papier
Le temps de prendre une plume
Le temps de la tailler
Mais le temps de me dire
Comment vais-je l'ecrire
Et le temps est venu
Ou tu ne m'aimais plus.
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I would have loved my darling
To write you a song
On this melody
Discovered one night
I would have loved my darling
Nothing more than romantic city of Alencon
To write you a long poem
To write you a long "I love you"

I would have told you "love"
I would have told you "always"
But by a thousand ways
But by a thousand detours
I would have told you "Let's leave"
I would have told you "Let's burn"
Let's burn from day to day
From season to season

But the time which illuminates
The idea on paper
The time to take a pen
The time to prepare it
But the time to tell myself
How am I going to write it
And the time came
Where you loved me no longer.