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Je dis AIME (I say love) Posted by on Feb 17, 2011 in Culture, Music, Vocabulary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a5Loy3lLf0

As promised, here is la suite (the follow-up)!

-M- “Je dis aime—le clip (the music video) which you could virtually hear for a while on all les stations de radio françaises

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…et les paroles (and the lyrics), written by his grand-mère, the late Andrée Chedid, who left us only a few days ago (the English translation is mine.)

* -M- “JE DIS AIME” (“I SAY LOVE”):

J’ai les méninges nomades

I’ve got nomadic brains

J’ai le miroir maussade

I’ve got my mirror bleak

Tantôt mobile

At times mobile

Tantôt tranquille

At times laid back

Je moissonne sans bousculade

I harvest, no rush


Je dis Aime

I say Love

Et je le sème

And I sow

Sur ma planète

On my planet

Je dis M

I say M

Comme un emblème

As an emblem

La haine je la jette

Hatred I throw away

Je dis Aime, Aime, Aime

I say Love, Love, Love


Du Sphinx dans mon rimeur

A limb of the Sphinx into my rhymester

Paris au fil du cœur

Paris along my heart

Du Nil dans mes veines

A sip of the Nile into my veins

Dans mes artères coule la Seine

In my arteries flows the Seine

Je dis Aime

I say Love

Et je le sème

And I sow

Sur ma planète

On my planet

Je dis M

I say M

Comme un emblème

As an emblem

La haine je la jette

Hatred I throw away

Je dis Aime, Aime, Aime

I say Love, Love, Love


Pour le dehors le dedans

For the outside the inside

Pour l’après pour l’avant

For the after the before

Je dis Aime, Aime, Aime

I say Love, Love, Love

Pour le dehors le dedans

For the outside the inside

Pour l’après pour l’avant

For the after the before

Aime, Aime, Aime…

Love, Love, Love

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  1. Adam:

    Thanks for the great phrases as always! Even for those of us who already live in France, it’s always a pleasure to learn a bit more of this beautiful language! Your French language tweets & corresponding articles are always great and insightful! 🙂 Many thanks!