Si j'étais

Janpol1953 · July 25, 2018, 07:21:51 AM

Music Pierre Billon, Jacques Revaux/
Words Michel Sardou
Performer Michel Sardou (1980)
Song: Janpol1953
Acoustic guitar picking: Janpol1953
Electric guitar: Janpol1953
Harmonica: Janpol1953
Other instruments: "Band in a box" software
Web site with chords and lyrics: http://www.multisong.ovh/
Have a look on my personal video (A lot of work):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeyHBocl4-M

Translation from french to english with the help of Deepl translator

And if I was weird, how could I say... asexual
Kind of like a reed that's been transplanted
And then we'd put everything in the back of a garden
With old tools, near the doghouse

If I had a fair complexion and transparent skin
And big open eyes that never lie
Magazine teeth and marble lips
Male names and almost no beards

What if I liked women just by cover
Not the ones in the bed, the ones covering the armor.
That I need to survive the newspapers,
To all those who do not believe that when evening comes

I never needed to sleep anything else.
Only the rosewood body of my first guitar.

And if I were violent, how could I say... metal leather
The spearhead dream, the tattooed heart of bullets
Blood you can no longer hold in your veins
An evil broth more polluted than the Seine

What if I was so sneaky that the bad guys
Speak to me half-voice and listen to me trembling
How about I play friend to suffocate, bruise
If I played nice just to make myself laugh

If behind my glasses, I was afraid to see you
If I had in my head like a big black flag
A desire to be alone, without a wife and children
If I changed my face, if I had talent

I wouldn't have needed, for the words I said.
Your fake hands, your points on my i's.

And if I was shy, how could I say... borrowed
A bird in a vacuum, a robot unplugged
And if I wasn't at the bottom, after all what I said
That a cardboard soldier who has no enemy

I wouldn't have had to, to sing my songs.
From your hearts on my hands, from your eyes on my forehead.

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