Translation of the song Zelda artist Yves Simon

French

Zelda

English translation

Zelda

Tu rêvais à Chopin ou à Franz Liszt

You were dreaming of Chopin or Frantz Liszt

Dans un grand salon de l'hôtel Ritz

in a big private room of the Ritz,

Tu écrivais des mots sur un bloc-notes

intent on a few words that you might jot.

Tu ressemblais à la Zelda de Scott

You looked like the Zelda told by Scott

Tu portais une cape de zibeline

You were wearing a cape of sable-skin

En écoutant Kashmir de Led Zeppelin

you listened to Kashmere by Led Zeppelin.

Tu portais une cape de zibeline

You were wearing a cape of sable-skin

En écoutant Kashmir de Led Zeppelin

You listened to Kashmere by Led Zeppelin.

Toutes les femmes de la terre étaient là

All the women of the world were present

Dans un coin de ta tête, Zelda

In a corner of your mind, Zelda.

Angela, Rosa et Virginia

Angela, Rosa ,Virginia or

Et tant d'autres que je ne connais pas

so many others that I'll never know.

Tu portais une cape de zibeline

You were wearing a cape of sable-skin

En écoutant Kashmir de Led Zeppelin

you listened to Kashmere by Led Zeppelin.

Tu portais une cape de zibeline

You were wearing a cape of sable-skin

En écoutant Kashmir de Led Zeppelin

You listened to Kashmere by Led Zeppelin.

Tous les mots étouffés par les baillons

All the words that get smothered and stifled

Sont dans les rêves des femmes et les prisons

survive in women's dreams or in prisons.

Plus jamais elles ne quitteront les villes

Never more will they escape from cities

Comme Zelda pour entrer dans un asile

Like Zelda, taken to an asylum.

Tu portais une cape de zibeline

You were wearing a cape of sable-skin

En écoutant Kashmir de Led Zeppelin

you listened to Kashmere by Led Zeppelin.

Tu portais une cape de zibeline

You were wearing a cape of sable-skin

En écoutant Kashmir de Led Zeppelin...

You listened to Kashmere by Led Zeppelin.

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