Pour Celine Dion
Sur l'album S'il Suffitsait d'aimer
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"I woke up this
morning baby, the blues was pouring out of me" Cent fois ces mots je les ai dits ces mots que d'autres avaient �crits |
"I woke up this morning baby, the blues was pouring out of me" One hundred times I've said these words Words that others have written |
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De toute ma voix, de toute mon ame "with all the soul that I can" Le blues comme on me l'a appris "I woke up this morning baby" mais ce matin-l�, j'ai compris |
With all my voice, with all my soul "with all the soul that I can" The blues like I was taught I woke up this morning baby" But that morning there, I understood |
| La peine aux longs
champs de coton j'imaginais de mon cocon Les coups, le sang, les temps boueux j'avais mal en fermant les yeux "His baby's far away" j'ai des pardons, j'ai des pri�res Mais l'blues c'est pas des phrases en l'air |
The pain of the long fields of cotton I'd imagined from my cocoon The blows, the blood, the muddy time I felt sick while closing my eyes "his baby's far away" I had pardons, I had prayers But the blues aren't just phrases in the air |
| "I woke up this
morming baby" mais ce matin t'as vraiment froid Tu comprends du fond de ta poitrine tous les blues sont crits pour toi |
I woke up this morning baby But on that morning you really are cold You understand from the pit of your stomach That all the blues were written for you |
| "Oh, oh I feel, the blues in me Nobody knows how I really feel Nobody knows, nobody cares" | |
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Les mots te br�lent un par un comme s'ils Comme s'ils t'appartiennent enfin Ces blues �taient les tiens |
The words burn you one by one as if they As if they finally belonged to you The blues are finally yours |
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De toute ma voix, toute mon �me, "with all the soul that I can" Le blues qu'on n'm'a jamais appris |
With all my voice, with all my soul.
"With all teh soul that I can"
The blues that I was never taught |
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"I woke up this morning, the blues was pouring out of me Nobody knows, nobody sees" |
This song, as sung by Celine Dion, is a passionate, driven ballad gaining that moment when (sadly) it all makes sense. When you finally understand why all those songs were written in the first place. JJG's use of English in the song is testament to his love of the blues, and it's also (at least I think, but I can't remember the song...) based on a song by Aritha Franklin.
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