Translation of the song lyrics Le coeur fragile - Jean Ferrat

Le coeur fragile (original)

Si je meurs un beau soir d’hiver
On dira que c’est d’un cancer ou bien d’un truc quelque chose
Il peut se trouver des experts
Qui dcrteront au contraire que c’tait la tuberculose
C’est pourquoi je prends les devants
Pour affirmer ds maintenant, croyez pas ces vieux imbciles
J’avais une sant de fer
Je n’avais qu’un petit travers, j’avais le cњur un peu fragile
Le cњur fragile, les mains fbriles, la bouche offerte
J’aurai vcu, sans avoir cru, l’le dserte
En attendant, le cњur battant, la dcouverte
Je veux dormir, je veux mourir la porte ouverte
Quand on prend tout d’un cњur lger
Il parat qu’on vit sans danger que la mort longtemps nous vite
Mais j’ai voulu croire au bonheur
Et j’ai pris tant de choses cњur que mon cњur a battu trop vite
Au lieu d’tre un homme averti
Qui se passionne au ralenti, j’ai pris le parti des potes
C’est en cherchant la toison d’or
Que mon cњur a battu si fort, quand j’y pense encore, il s’arrte
Le cњur fragile, les mains fbriles, la bouche offerte
J’aurai vcu, sans avoir cru, l’le dserte
En attendant, le cњur battant, la dcouverte
Je veux dormir, je veux mourir la porte ouverte
On me dira c’est pas srieux
On ne s’en va pas pour si peu, il faut des raisons bien plus fortes
Mais je n’ai pas d’autres raisons
De mettre sous le paillasson, la petite cl de ma porte
On peut mourir tout doucement
D’un petit baiser qu’on attend, d’une voix froide au tlphone
D’un mot qu’on lance bout portant
D’une confiance qu’on reprend, d’un amour qui vous abandonne
Le cњur fragile, les mains fbriles, la bouche offerte
J’aurai vcu, sans avoir cru, l’le dserte
En attendant, le cњur battant, la dcouverte
Je veux dormir, je veux mourir la porte ouverte.

(translation)

If I die on a beautiful winter evening
We'll say it's cancer or something
There may be experts
Who will decide on the contrary that it was tuberculosis
That's why I take the lead
To say right now, don't believe these old fools
I had iron health
I only had a little flaw, I had a little weak heart
The fragile heart, the feverish hands, the mouth offered
I would have lived, without having believed, the deserted island
In the meantime, heart beating, discovery
I want to sleep, I want to die with the door open
When we take everything with a light heart
It seems that we live without danger that death longs us fast
But I wanted to believe in happiness
And I took so many things to heart that my heart beat too fast
Instead of being a knowledgeable man
Who gets excited in slow motion, I took the side of the homies
It's looking for the golden fleece
That my heart beat so hard, when I think about it again, it stops
The fragile heart, the feverish hands, the mouth offered
I would have lived, without having believed, the deserted island
In the meantime, heart beating, discovery
I want to sleep, I want to die with the door open
They'll tell me it's not serious
We don't leave for so little, we need much stronger reasons
But I have no other reasons
To put under the doormat, the little key to my door
We can die slowly
With a long-awaited kiss, with a cold voice on the phone
Of a word that is thrown point-blank
Of a confidence that we regain, of a love that abandons you
The fragile heart, the feverish hands, the mouth offered
I would have lived, without having believed, the deserted island
In the meantime, heart beating, discovery
I want to sleep, I want to die with the door open.