Corrections (I'm an almost bilingual french-canadian from Quebec) : JUSTIFICATIONS ARE BELOW TRANSLATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dream after dream I miss you And sorrows don't disappear And day after day I imagine Running very softly towards you But you, you don't know me anymore After this time, I've really lost you And she settles at your side while I forget your kisses And without suffering, I laugh; my regrets remain in his bed And without laughing I suffer, because he got my last breath Wrong after wrong, I sink And my tears won't bring you back And punch after punch that I throw, he won't let me go And he does not really know me And you, you're not looking for me right now Yet I wonder why I left you, just for a moment that night And without suffering, I laugh; my regrets remain in his bed And without laughing I suffer, because he got my last breath And without suffering, I laugh; my regrets remain in his bed And without laughing I suffer, because he got my last breath. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Justifications : The goal here is for English speaking people to understand the meaning, so in this translation, I didn't care about fitting with the melody, only about meaning. Keep that in mind. Line 2 : "peines" means "sadness", but plural. So "sorrows" was chosen. Line 3A : "Jour après jour" can be translated literally, without any loss, so it was. "Everyday" would translate to "tous les jours" or "chaque jour" Line 3B : "songe" can mean "dream", but also "think", "imagine", and so on. In this case, the word play seemed to use "songe" two times but with a different meaning. The first time talking about nights (dreams), and then switching to day (day after day) Line 4 : "doucement" means "softly" or "gently". In this case, it doesn't seem to be about the speed, so "gently" was chosen instead of "slowly". Line 5A : "Mais toi, tu [...]", means "But you, you [...]". Left it there to stay as exact as possible. Line 5B : "tu ne me connais plus" means "you don't know me anymore", and it's because "plus" was used instead of "pas". With "pas" instead, then it would mean "you don't know me". Line 6 : "je t'ai vraiment perdu" translates to "I have really lost you". The "you" is the " 't" before "ai". Line 7A : The word "range" in "Et elle se range à tes côtés" was mistakenly heard as "ange" which is french for "angel", which led to more misunderstandings. Line 7B : The word "oublie" in "pendant que j'en oublie tes baisers" was wrongly translated as "miss", but it means "forget". Line 8A : "souffrir" in "Et sans souffrir, j'en rie" was mistakenly heard as "sourire" which is french for "smile". Line 8B : "les regrets restent dans mon lit". "son" was omitted here, so I added it back ("his" in English"). Line 9 : "Et sans rire je souffre" The word play in the chorus is to switch the verbs "rire" (to laugh) and "souffrir" (to suffer) between line 8 and 9, and this intention was lost in translation. Line 9B : In "car il a eu mon dernier souffle", "il a eu" means "he got" or "he has gotten". "it was" would be "c'était". Line 10A : "tort" is a hard word to translate. It means "something someone did wrong". So I chose "wrong" as a noun (like in : "I did you no wrong"). But it could also be translated to "fault" or "mistake". Line 10B : I'm getting lazy, so let's just say there was a bunch of misunderstandings here. Also there was a missing word at the end. Line 11A : "Coup après coup que je donne" The word "coup", which means "hit" (noun), was mistakenly translated to "time". Also, in french, you can say "give a hit", as in hitting someone or something", so the literal translation would be : "Hit after hit, that I give", but it doesn't work, so workarounds had to be used. In this case, the author seemed to refer to metaphorical hits directed at the pain the guy caused her, or at the guy himself, so "punch" was chosen. Line 12A : The coma was misplaced. "[...] know me and you, [...]" instead of "know me, and you [...]" makes it sound like the "know" is directed towards both "me" and "you", but it's not. Line 12B : Getting lazy again. "you do not look at time" is meaningless even in English, and it's far from the real meaning. Line 13A: "Pourtant je cherche pourquoi je t'ai laissé" was translated in present tense but it's in past tense. Also, "seek" was translated literally from "cherche", but it was used as in "looking for a reason why she left him", and since "wonder" does the job perfectly as a replacement for "looking for the reason why", it was chosen. Also, the " 't" was ignored, and it refers to the guy she was with. The author meant that she left him, not just left. Line 13B : "que pour un temps dans cette soirée". The "que" is used to put emphasis on the fact that she left him just for a moment, and yet he managed to hurt her during that time. The word "long" was added, but it's not there and it goes against the intention of the author. Also, she is referring to a somewhat distant night in the past, so "that" was chosen instead of "this". And since the word "night" fits more with the night life during which young people spend time with their friends or at parties and such (and the story talks about a night spent with a guy and possibly other people), it was chosen instead of "evening", which seems to lose the vibe. Line 14 and 15 : Same as 8 and 9. Line 16 and 17 : Same as 8 and 9. P.S. Don't ask me why I posted this gigantic analysis. I was bored and I like Coeur de Pirate and her songs.