Mon amie la rose [English translation]

We aren't anything much

and my friend the rose

told me so this morning.

At dawn I was born,

baptised with dew,

I spread myself out

happy and loving

to the suns rays.

I closed myself at night

and woke up old.

Nonetheless I was very beautiful,

yes, I was the most beautiful

of the flowers in your garden.

We aren't anything much

and my friend the rose

told me so this morning.

See the god who made me

makes me bow my head

and I feel that I'm falling,

and I feel that I'm falling.

My heart is almost bare,

I've one foot in the grave

already I no longer am.

You admired me yesterday

and I'll be dust

for ever tomorrow.

We aren't anything much

and my friend the rose

died this morning.

Last night the moon

held a wake over my friend.

I, in a dream I saw

her bare and dazzling

soul which was dancing

well beyond the clouds

and was smiling at me.

Let him who can believe,

Me, I need some hope

without it I am nothing

Or maybe not much of anything.

It was1 my friend the rose

who said that yesterday morning.

1. in English identity has tenses (yukh!)

• Artist:Françoise Hardy
• Album:Mon amie la rose (1964)