Serge Reggiani — La cinquantaine song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "La cinquantaine" by Serge Reggiani.
Lyrics
On arrive la cinquantaine, moiti sage, moiti fou
Le cul assis entre deux chaises tenter d’en joindre les bouts
Sur la route de la chimre on se retrouve souvent un jour
Pour faire le compte de ses guerres, des petites joies, des grands amours
Et c’est tout
On arrive la cinquantaine, moiti figue, moiti raisin
Le cњur absous de toute haine, le cњur absous de tout chagrin
On a troqu sa destine contre des hauts, contre des bas
Rves vendus la crie pour faire le vendredi gras
Et c’est tout
On arrive la cinquantaine, moiti dyou, moiti content
Un quart de joie, un quart de peine, et l’autre moiti aux enfants
On se souvient de sa jeunesse comme d’un joyeux chapardage
Au seuil de la prime vieillesse on pose un instant ses bagages
Et c’est tout
Et on repart vers la centaine, un demi-sicle dans les reins
Avec tout juste la moyenne notre devoir de terrien
Comme elle est lointaine, la rive o l’on se couchera un jour
Il reste tant et tant vivre qu’on pourra faire un long dtour
Si tu veux, mon amour.
Lyrics translation
We arrive in their fifties, half wise, half crazy
Ass sitting between two chairs trying to join the ends
On the road of the chimre we often meet one day
To account for his Wars, small joys, great loves
And that's it
We arrive fifty, half fig, half grape
The heart absolved of all hatred, the heart absolved of all sorrow
We've traded our destiny for highs, for lows
Rves sold the scream to make fat Friday
And that's it
We arrive in their fifties, half dyou, half happy
A quarter of joy, a quarter of sorrow, and the other half to children
His youth is remembered as a joyful chapardage
At the threshold of the premium old age we put a moment his luggage
And that's it
And we go back to the Hundred, half a shekel in the kidneys
With just average our Earth duty
Since it is far away, the shore where one will lie down one day
There is so much to live that we can make a long detour
If you want, my love.