Translation of the song lyrics Imaginer - Jackie Evancho

Imaginer (original)

Assise au bord de mon grand cœur
je parle de paix sans pudeur
d’un arbre millénaire me racontant l’histoire
qu’ici-bas on a peine à croire:
Bien avant la Tour de Babel
les iPhones, les moteurs diesel
existait un jardin
grand comme notre vieille Terre
où les hommes protégeaient leurs frères.
Imaginer un monde solaire
où se dissoudraient nos vieilles guerres,
imaginer un monde sans faim
où le ciel d’un seul Dieu
éteindrait tous les feux
Ouvre les yeux
et lance-toi du haut de ton rêve le plus fou !
Le secret c’est d’y croire encore
et malgré tout.
Ouvre les yeux !
Imaginer un monde solaire
où se dissoudraient nos vieilles guerres,
imaginer un monde sans faim
où le ciel d’un seul Dieu
éteindrait tous les feux
Seated on the edge of my big heart
I speak of peace shamelessly
of a millennium tree telling me the story
that here below we have trouble to believe:
Long before the Tower of Babel
the iPhones and diesel engines
there was a garden
as big as our old Earth
where people would protect their brothers.
Open your eyes
and launch yourself from the top of your craziest dream !
The secret is to believe it still
and despite everything.
Open your eyes !
To imagine a solar world
where our old wars would desolve,
to imagine a hungerless world
where the sky of one God
would extinguish all fires.

Imaginer (translation)

Sitting on the edge of my great heart
I speak of peace without shame
of a millennial tree telling me the story
that down here it is hard to believe:
Long before the Tower of Babel
iPhones, diesel engines
there was a garden
big like our old earth
where men protected their brothers.
Imagine a solar world
where our old wars would dissolve,
imagine a world without hunger
where the sky of one God
would put out all the fires
Open your eyes
and launch yourself from the top of your wildest dream!
The secret is to still believe
and despite everything.
Open your eyes !
Imagine a solar world
where our old wars would dissolve,
imagine a world without hunger
where the sky of one God
would put out all the fires
Seated on the edge of my big heart
I speak of peace shamelessly
of a millennium tree telling me the story
that here below we have trouble to believe:
Long before the Tower of Babel
the iPhones and diesel engines
there was a garden
as big as our old Earth
where people would protect their brothers.
open your eyes
and launch yourself from the top of your craziest dream!
The secret is to believe it still
and despite everything.
Open your eyes!
To imagine a solar world
where our old wars would solve,
to imagine a hungry world
where the sky of one God
would extinguish all fires.