Et si tu n'existais pas - If you didn't exist

Et si tu n’existais pas – If you didn’t exist 

French  - English lyrics

Et si tu n'existais pas Et si tu n'existais pas Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi Sans espoir et sans regret Et si tu n'existais pas J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts Naître les couleurs du jour Et qui n'en revient pas Et si tu n'existais pas Dis-moi pour qui j'existerais Des passantes endormies dans mes bras Que je n'aimerais jamais Et si tu n'existais pas Je ne serais qu'un point de plus Dans ce monde qui vient et qui va Je me sentirais perdu J'aurais besoin de toi Et si tu n'existais pas Dis-moi comment j'existerais Je pourrais faire semblant d'être moi Mais je ne serais pas vrai Et si tu n'existais pas Je crois que je l'aurais trouvé Le secret de la vie, le pourquoi Simplement pour te créer Et pour te regarder Et si tu n'existais pas Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi Sans espoir et sans regret Et si tu n'existais pas J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts Naître les couleurs du jour Et qui n'en revient pas

If you didn’t exist And if you didn’t exist Tell me why should I exist For living in a world without you Without hope and regrets And if you didn’t exist I would try to invent love Like a painter who sees under his fingers The day’s colours, borne And that aren’t coming back. And if you didn’t exist Tell me why should I exist Passers-by asleep in my arms That I won’t ever love And if you didn’t exist I would be nothing more than one more dot In this world that comes and goes I would feel lost I would need you. And if you didn’t exist Tell me how could I exist I could make a semblance of me But I wouldn’t be true I think that I have found it The secret of life, the why Just for believing you And for seeing you. And if you didn’t exist Tell me why should I exist For living in a world without you Without hope and regrets And if you didn’t exist I would try to invent love Like a painter who sees under his fingers The day’s colours, borne And that aren’t coming back.

My Love

Two words saying everything.
Saying I love you, saying goodbye my beloved one.
To someone you have opened your world to, shared everything, became one with.
Hello my love. Goodbye my love.

Et si tu n'existais pas

Of Love

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.

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Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

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And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Kahlil Gibran