gal_rosbi

if anyone can translate it to english for me ....
that would be super.

Joe Dassin-Et si tu n'existais pas

teamouton

Here is what I translated, it's quite litteral, but the meaning is there !!
I put the french version too...

Et si tu n'existais pas,
Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais.
Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi,
Sans espoir et sans regrets.

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.

And if you didn't exist,
Tell me why I would exist.
To hang around in a world without you,
Without hope and without regrets.

And if you didn't exist,
I would try to invent love,
Like a painter seeing, under his fingers (umm...litteraly)
arising the colours of daylight.
And who can't believe it.

And if you didn't exist,
Tell me who I would exist for.
Passers-by asleep in my arms
Whom I will never love.

And if you didn't exist,
I would only be one more point
In this world who comes and goes,
I would feel lost,
I would need you.

And if you didn't exist,
Tell me how I would exist.
I could play at being me,
But it wouldn't be truthful.

And if you didn't exist;
I think I would have found it,
The secret of life, the why,
Simply to create you,
And to look at you.