Lyrics of Si j'avais su t'aimer - Chimène Badi

Si j'avais su t'aimer (original)

Si j’avais su t’aimer
Avec des habitudes
Des petits déjeuners
Au lit d’la solitude
Si j’avais su te dire
Avec exactitude
Ce qui me fait mourir
De tant d’incertitudes
Si j’avais su t’aimer
Comme on aime ce qu’on cache
Comme on voudrait prier
Pour que rien ne se détache
Si j’avais su t'écrire
Ce qu’il faut que tu saches
J’aurais été moins pire
J’aurais été moins lâche
J’aurais refusé d'être sage
J’aurais donné bien davantage
De lumière à ton paysage
Si j’avais su
Si j’avais seulement vu sur ton visage
Ce qu’il faut d’amour et de rage
Si j’avais su, si j’avais su te mettre à nu
Si j’avais su t’aimer
Avant de te connaître
Avant de t’oublier
J’aurais menti peut-être
Si j’avais su mentir
Mentir ou disparaître
Apprendre à devenir
Une femme à la fenêtre
Si j’avais seulement vu sur ton visage
Ce qu’il faut d’amour et de rage
Si j’avais su, si j’avais su te mettre à nu
Si j’avais su t’aimer
Avant de te connaître
Avant de t’oublier
J’aurais brûlé ma lettre

(translation)

If I had known how to love you
with habits
Breakfasts
In bed of loneliness
If I had known to tell you
With accuracy
What makes me die
Of so many uncertainties
If I had known how to love you
How we love what we hide
How we would like to pray
So that nothing comes off
If I had known how to write to you
What you need to know
I would have been less bad
I would have been less cowardly
I would have refused to be wise
I would have given more
From light to your landscape
If I had known
If I had only seen on your face
What it takes love and rage
If I had known, if I had known to expose you
If I had known how to love you
Before knowing you
Before forgetting you
I might have lied
If I had known how to lie
Lie or disappear
learn to become
A woman at the window
If I had only seen on your face
What it takes love and rage
If I had known, if I had known to expose you
If I had known how to love you
Before knowing you
Before forgetting you
I would have burned my letter