Translation of the song lyrics Les hommes de ma vie - Dalida

Les hommes de ma vie - Dalida
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Song from the album: L'Intégrale Des Enregistrements Orlando
In the genre:Поп
Release date:06.03.1986
Song language:French
Record label:Barclay

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Les hommes de ma vie (original)Les hommes de ma vie (translation)
Le premier dans ma vieThe first man in my life
M’appelait la dame du Nilcalled me the lady of the Nile
On attendait la nuitWe waited for the night
Sur Le Caire endormieover sleeping Cairo
Pour compter les étoilesto count the stars
Et puis on a grandiAnd then we grew up
A Paris étrangèreIn Paris, a stranger
Il m’a prise comme un pèreHe took me in like a father
M’a conduite du désertled me out of the desert
Jusqu’en pleine lumièreinto the full light
Et sa main comme une aideAnd his hand, like a helper,
Me pousse encore sur scènestill pushes me onto the stage
Vous, vous aussiYou, you too
Mal ou bien l’amour vous a grandifor better or worse, love raised you
Pour vous, vous aussiFor you, you too
L’homme idéal chaque fois, c'était luihe was the ideal man every time
Vous, vous aussiYou, you too
Allumiez des soleils à minuitlit up suns at midnight
Vous, vous aussiYou, you too
Un jour vous direz les hommes de ma vieone day you'll say "the men of my life"
J’ai pleuré l’ItalienI wept for the Italian
Sa chanson son refrainhis song, its refrain,
N'était pas terminéwas left unfinished
Quand il s’en est alléwhen he went away
C’est fragile un artisteAn artist is fragile
Depuis mon coeur est tristesince then my heart's been sad
Et le magicien fouAnd the mad magician,
Dans sa boule voyait flouin his crystal ball saw only blur
Il voulait faire encoreHe still wanted to turn
De mon amour de l’ormy love into gold
Et ses mains de sculpteursand his sculptor's hands
Dénudaient ma pudeurstripped away my modesty
Vous, vous aussiYou, you too
Mal ou bien l’amour vous a grandifor better or worse, love raised you
Pour vous, vous aussiFor you, you too
L’homme idéal chaque fois, c'était luihe was the ideal man every time
Vous, vous aussiYou, you too
Allumiez des soleils à minuitlit up suns at midnight
Vous, vous aussiYou, you too
Un jour vous direz les hommes de ma vieone day you'll say "the men of my life"
Finalement aujourd’huiIn the end, today,
Moi la femme de personneI, a woman who belongs to no one,
C’est avec vous que je suisit's with you that I stand
Dans mon coeur ne résonneIn my heart there echoes
Aucune nostalgieno nostalgia at all
C’est avec vous qu’je visit's with you that I live
Vous, vous aussiYou, you too
Mal ou bien l’amour vous a grandifor better or worse, love raised you
Pour vous, vous aussiFor you, you too
L’homme idéal chaque fois, c'était luihe was the ideal man every time
Moi aujourd’huiMe, today,
Mon bilan est sans mélancoliemy reckoning holds no sorrow
Moi aujourd’huiMe, today,
Puisque j’ai choisisince I have chosen —
C’est vous ma vieyou are my life

About the song

"Les hommes de ma vie" is structured as a personal retrospective, with the singer walking through a series of men who shaped her at different points in her life. The song opens in Cairo, evoking a childhood spent counting stars over a sleeping city, before shifting to Paris, where a fatherly figure guides her from obscurity into the spotlight and keeps pushing her back on stage.

Later verses turn more melancholy, mourning an Italian whose song was left unfinished when he departed, and describing a restless, almost feverish creative figure who tried to turn her love into art. Each man is painted less as a literal lover than as a formative presence, tied to a stage of her artistic and emotional growth.

The recurring address to "vous" invites the listener to recognize their own list of formative men. The song resolves without bitterness: looking back, the narrator feels no nostalgia, only the sense that she has finally chosen her own life.

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