Réda Caire — Envoi de fleurs song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Envoi de fleurs" by Réda Caire.
Lyrics
Pour vous obliger de penser à moi
D’y penser souvent, d’y penser encore
Voici quelques fleurs, bien modeste envoi
De très humbles fleurs qui viennent d'éclore.
Ce ne sont pas là de nobles bouquets
Signés de la main de savants fleuristes
Liés par des noeuds de rubans coquets
Bouquets précieux, chefs-d'oeuvre d’artistes.
Ce sont d’humbles fleurs, presque fleurs des champs,
Mais ce sont des fleurs simples et sincères
Des fleurs sans orgueil aux libres penchants
Des fleurs de poète à deux sous pas chères.
J’aurais mieux aimé de riches bijoux
Que ce souvenir vraiment trop champêtre
Bagues, bracelets, féminins joujoux
J’aurais mieux aimé… vous aussi, peut-être.
Mais du moins ces fleurs, ce modeste envoi,
Ces très humbles fleurs qui viennent d'éclore
Vous diront tout bas de penser à moi
D’y penser souvent, d’y penser encore
Lyrics translation
To make you think of me
To think about it often, to think about it again
Here are some flowers, though modest sending
Very humble flowers that have just hatched.
These are not noble bouquets
Signed by the hands of learned florists
Tied by knots of flirty ribbons
Precious Bouquets, masterpieces of artists.
These are humble flowers, almost flowers of the fields,
But these are simple and sincere flowers
From flowers without pride to free inclinations
Cheap two-dime poet flowers.
I would have liked rich jewels better
That this memory really too country
Rings, bracelets, feminine toys
I would have liked... you too, perhaps.
But at least these flowers, this modest sending,
These very humble flowers that have just hatched
They'll tell you all low to think of me
To think about it often, to think about it again