Baudelaire Lyrics in English Serge Gainsbourg
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Baudelaire by Serge Gainsbourg from French to English.
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Que j'aime voir chère indolente
That I like to see dear indolent
De ton corps si beau
Of your body so beautiful
Comme une étoffe vacillante
Like a wavering fabric
Miroiter la peau
Shimmer the skin
Sur ta chevelure profonde
On your deep hair
Aux âcres parfums
With pungent perfumes
Mer odorante et vagabonde
Fragrant and wandering sea
Aux flots bleus et bruns
With blue and brown waves
Comme un navire qui s'éveille
Like a ship waking up
Au vent du matin
In the morning wind
Mon âme rêveuse appareille
My dreaming soul sets sail
Pour un ciel lointain
For a distant sky
Tes yeux où rien ne se révèle
Your eyes where nothing is revealed
De doux ni d'amer
From sweet nor bitter
Sont deux bijoux froids où se mêlent
Are two cold jewels where mingle
L'or avec le fer
Gold with iron
À te voir marcher en cadence
Seeing you walk in rhythm
Belle d'abandon
Beautiful of abandonment
On dirait un serpent qui danse
It looks like a dancing snake
Au bout d'un bâton
At the end of a stick
Sous le fardeau de ta paresse
Under the burden of your laziness
Ta tête d'enfant
Your child's face
Se balance avec la mollesse
Sways with limpness
D'un jeune éléphant
Of a young elephant
Et ton corps se penche et s'allonge
And your body bends and stretches
Comme un fin vaisseau
Like a fine vessel
Qui roule bord sur bord et plonge
Who rolls edge to edge and dives
Ces vergues dans l'eau
These yards in the water
Comme un flot grossi par la fonte
Like a flood swelled by melting
Des glaciers grondants
Rumbling glaciers
Quand l'eau de ta bouche remonte
When the water in your mouth comes up
Au bord de tes dents
On the edge of your teeth
Je crois boire un vin de Bohème
I think I'm drinking a Bohemian wine
Amer et vainqueur
Bitter and victorious
Un ciel liquide qui parsème
A liquid sky that sprinkles
D'étoiles mon cœur
Of stars my heart
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