Ballade à temps perdu [English translation]

Can someone tell me if a heart abused by love

can see one day its wounds healed forever?

Is it that one day hope will come sooner or later

if you are alone—lost in an unknown world?

Love no longer smiles

in my ballad to lost time.

oo oo oo oo oo oo, oo oo oo oo oo oo oo

Can anyone count the flowers of the dew

before the sun arrives to dry out everything?

The drops of dew never linger,

just like the happiness that once lived in my heart.

Love no longer smiles

in my ballad to lost time.

oo oo oo oo oo oo, oo oo oo oo oo oo oo

You will never know if a heart abused by love

can see one day its wounds healed forever.

But I know that I love you—you who have no name—

you who compel me in my pain to sing this song.

My heart did not hardly beat anymore

in my ballad to lost time,

but I love the unknown love

in my ballad to a lost heart.

• Artist:Dalida
• Album:L'An 2005 (1965)