Barbara - Say, when will you be back

Original Title: "Dis, quand reviendras-tu?"
Year: 1964

For how many days, for how many nights
For how long have you been gone again
You told me : "This time, it's the last trip
for our torn hearts, it's the last wrecking
In the spring you'll see I'll be back
The spring, it's pretty to talk about love,
We'll go together see the florished gardens
and will stroll in the streets of Paris"

Say, when will you be back
Say, do you at least know it
That all the time that passes,
Can't be caught up,
That all the time lost
Can't be caught up anymore.

Spring has fled for a long time already,
creak the dead leaves, burn the wood fires,
To see Paris so beautiful at this end of fall,
Suddenly I grow languid, I dream, I shiver,
I reel, I capsize, and like the old refrain,
I go, I come, I veer, I'm turning around, I'm dragging myself,
Your image is haunting me, I'm whispering to you
And I'm lovesick and I'm yearning for you.

Say, when will you be back
Say, do you at least know it
That all the time that passes,
Can't be caught up,
That all the time lost
Can't be caught up anymore.

Even though I still love you, even though I always love you,
Even though you are the only one I love, even though I love you of love,
If you do not understand that you must come back
I will make of us both my most beautiful memories
I'll take the road again, the world marvels me
I'll warm myself up at another sun,
I'm not of those girls who die of sorrow
I do not have the virtue of sailors' wives

Say, but when will you be back
Say, do you at least know it
How all the time that passes,
Can't be caught up,
How all the time lost
Can't be caught up anymore.