Aux Champs-Élysées [English translation]

Aux Champs-Elysees (Ian’s translation)

I was walking on the avenue

my heart open to who knows who

I wanted to say hello to anyone at all

To anyone, it was you I didn’t say anything new

It was enough just to speak to get to know you.

On Champs-Elysées,

On Champs-Elysées

In the rain, or in sunlight

at midday or at midnight

There’s everything that you can want

On Champs-Elysées.

You said to me "I have a rendez-vous

in a basement with some crazy fools

who play guitar at any time from evening till dawn.

I went along to accompany you, first we sang, and then we danced

We didn’t even think about starting romance.

On Champs-Elysées,

On Champs-Elysées

In the rain, or in sunlight

at midday or at midnight

There’s everything that you can want

On Champs-Elysées.

Yesterday I didn’t know you this morning on the avenue

Two lovers very dazzled by the long, long night

from the Etolie to the Concorde

an orchestra of a thousand chords

And all the birds of daybreak they sing about love.

On Champs-Elysées,

On Champs-Elysées

In the rain, or in sunlight

At midday or at midnight

There’s everything that you can want

On Champs-Elysées.