Heureux Celui Qui Meurt D'aimer Lyrics in English Jean Ferrat

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Heureux Celui Qui Meurt D'aimer by Jean Ferrat from French to English.
Oh my garden of cool water and shade
My dance of being, my somber heart
My sky with stars beyond count
My boat far off, gentle to row
Happy the one who grows deaf
To song unless it's from his love
Blind to the day after his day
His eyes closed on you alone
Happy the one who dies of love
Happy the one who dies of love
Loving so hard, his lips shut
That he needs nothing at all
Except the memory of roses
Forever scented by you
The one who dies even to pain
For whom without you the world's a sham
And keeps from it only your colors
It's enough for him that he named you
Happy the one who dies of love
Happy the one who dies of love
My child he says, my dear soul
The time to know you, oh woman
Eternity's just a swoon
In the fire I'm consumed by
He said oh woman and falls silent
The name that looks like ember
Like the red strawberry mouth
Forever shaped between his teeth
Happy the one who dies of love
Happy the one who dies of love
He said oh woman and it ends
So life, so dream
Whether on the Grève square
Or in the familiar bed
Young lovers, you for whom it's time
Between the dance and the journey
Mad the one sparing himself who thinks he's wise
Shout at whoever wants to blame you
Happy the one who dies of love
Happy the one who dies of love
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“Heureux Celui Qui Meurt D'aimer” is a poetic celebration of love so intense that it eclipses everything else. Jean Ferrat paints a dream-like garden where sight, sound, and even time blur, because the lover’s entire universe has narrowed to one radiant person. Being deaf to any song but that of the beloved, blind to any dawn without them, the singer insists that the happiest fate is to “die of loving” – to be completely consumed by passion until nothing remains but the sweet memory of rose-scented kisses.

As the verses unfold, Ferrat shifts from tender imagery to an almost mythical declaration. He likens the lover’s name to a glowing ember, a strawberry-red mouth, a secret fire carried forever behind closed teeth. Finally he turns to the listeners, urging young lovers to ignore cautious voices and plunge headlong into their own blazing romances. In Ferrat’s world, the true sage is the one brave enough to risk everything for love, because only that all-engulfing devotion can make life, death, and even eternity feel exquisitely complete.

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