Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Quel Dommage by Françoise Hardy from French to English.
These English lyric translations are not yet verified.
Pas de grandes phrases
No big sentences
Mettons vos roses rouges dans un vase
Let's put your red roses in a vase
Essayons de briser la glace
Let's try to break the ice
Car sur nos carapaces un ange passe
Because on our shells an angel passes
Et si personne ne bouge n'ôte son masque
And if no one moves, don't take off their mask
J'entends la musique, je revois le film
I hear the music, I see the film again
Tellement romantique de sommet en abîme
So romantic from peak to abyss
Les notes de piano sur les images
Piano notes on images
Un tel fiasco, vraiment quel dommage
Such a fiasco, really what a shame
Retour en grâce
Return to grace
Qu'attendez-vous très cher que l'on fasse
What are you dearly waiting for us to do?
Amendes honorables et voltes faces
Honorable fines and about-faces
Un autre tour de phrase
Another turn of phrase
La même musique pour le même film
The same music for the same film
Si mélancolique, déchirant mais sublime
So melancholy, heartbreaking but sublime
Impossible et lasse pour les otages
Impossible and tired for the hostages
Du temps qui passe, vraiment quel dommage
Time passing, really what a shame
J'entends la musique
I hear the music
Et je nous revoie tellement romantique
And I see us again, so romantic
Vous même autant que moi
You even as much as me
Où sont les photos de ces visages?
Where are the photos of these faces?
Si jeunes, si beaux, mon Dieu quel naufrage
So young, so beautiful, my God what a wreck
Si jeunes, si beaux, mon Dieu quel dommage
So young, so beautiful, my God what a shame
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