Les Compagnons de la Chanson - Bécaud - I belong to you

Original Title: "Je t'appartiens"
Text: Pierre Delanoë
Music: Gilbert Bécaud
Year: 1955, 1956 (Les compagnons de la Chanson's version)
The song was a hit and adapted to english to become the famous song "Let it be me"

Like clay
the fragile insect
the docile slave
I belong to you

Of my whole being
You are the only master
I have to submit
I belong to you

If you condemn
Throwing my soul
At the heart of the flames
I can't do anything about it

If you condemn
If you curse me
Here is my soul
Here are my hands

With the sorrows
Love and hate
Flowing in my veins
I belong to you

What can I do
To satisfy you
Lord of the earth
On my path

Like the angels
To sing the praises
But I am not angel
You know it well

I am nothing but a man
Nothing but a poor man
Who likes you
Like a buddy

Often I think
That in your immense
Palace of silence
You must be well

Sometimes I think
That in your immense
Palace of silence
We must be well

Gilbert Bécaud's version:

Charles Aznavour - On my life

Original title: "Sur ma vie"
Year: 1956

On my life
One day, I've sworn to you
To love you until the last day of my days
And the same word,
Very soon, had to,
Unite us in front of God and men

On my life, I have sworm to you
That this bond will hold until the end of Times
This is how we were living
Drunk with passion
And my heart wanted to offer you my name

Close to the organs which were singing
In front of God who was praying
Happy, I was waiting for you
But the organs went silent
And God disappeared
Because you did not come

On my life....
I've sworm to you that my heart
Will never beat for another heart
And everything is lost
Because it is not beating anymore
But it's crying for my disappointed love

On my life...
One day, I've sworn to you
To love you until the last day of my days
And even now
I'll hold my oath
In spite of the hurt you inflicted me

On my life...
Honey...
I will love you.

Live version:
Version of Les Compagnons de la Chanson:

Jacques Bertin - Louis Aragon - Now that the youth

Original Title: "Maintenant que la jeunesse"
Text: Louis Aragon
Music: L. Leonardi
Year: 1966 (Morelli's version), 1982 (Bertin's version)

Now that the youth
goes out on the blue windows
Now that the youth
Unconscious, betrayed me

Now that the youth
You remember, remember it
Now that the youth
Sings the spring to others
Now that the youth
Turns away its lilac eyes

Now that the youth
Is not here or there anymore
Now that the youth
On other light paths

Now that the youth
Follows a foreign cloud
Now that the youth
Ran away, generous thief
Leaving me my right of primogeniture
And the silver of my hair.

It's a fine day as to not believe in it
It's a fine day like never
What a weather, what a weather witout memory
One does not know how to see anymore
nor to get up nor to sit down
It's a fine day like never

It's an unnatural weather
Like the sky in paintings
Like the oblivion of tortures
It's a fine day like never

Fresh, like water under the row
A weather strong like a woman
A weather to damn one's soul
It's a fine day like never

A weather to laugh and run
A weather to not die
A weather to fear for the worst
It's a fine day like never

Monique Morelli's version:

Marc Ogeret's version:

Hélène Martin's version:

Les Compagnons de la chanson's version:



All poems written by Louis Aragon