Et si tu n'existais pas – Bilingual Lyrics French/English

• By: Willy Denzey

Lyrics & Translation

[French]

[English]

Et si tu n'existais pas

What if you didn't exist

Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais

Tell me why I should exist

Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi

To wander in a world without you

Sans espoirs et sans regrets

Without hopes and without regrets

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Et si tu n'existais pas

And if you didn't exist

J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour

I'd try to invent love

Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts

Like a painter who sees beneath his hands

Naître les couleurs du jour

The colors of the day coming to life

Et qui n'en revient pas

And can't believe it

Si tu n'existais pas

If you didn't exist

Et si tu n'existais pas

And if you didn't exist

Dis-moi pour qui j'existerais

Tell me who I would exist for

Des passantes endormies dans mes bras

Passersby sleeping in my arms

Que je n'aimerais jamais

That I would never love

Jamais

Never

Et si tu n'existais pas

And if you didn't exist

Je ne serais qu'un point de plus

I would just be another point

Dans ce monde qui vient et qui va

In this world that comes and goes

Je me sentirais perdu

I would feel lost

J'aurais besoin de toi

I would need you

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Et si tu n'existais pas

And if you didn't exist

Dis-moi comment j'existerais (dis-moi comment)

Tell me how I could exist (tell me how)

Je pourrais faire semblant d'être moi

I could pretend to be myself

Mais je ne serais pas vrai (alors crois-moi)

But I wouldn't be true (so believe me)

Et si tu n'existais pas (n'existais pas)

And if you didn't exist (didn't exist)

Je crois que je l'aurais trouvé

I think I would have found it

Le secret de la vie, le pourquoi (le pourquoi)

The secret of life, the reason (the reason)

Simplement pour te créer

Simply to create you

Et pour te regarder

And to watch over you

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Et si tu n'existais pas (si tu n'existais pas)

And if you didn't exist (if you didn't exist)

Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais (dis-moi pourquoi, non, non)

Tell me why I should exist (tell me why, no, no)

Pour t'aimer dans un monde sans toi

To love you in a world without you

Sans espoirs et sans regrets (sans regrets)

Without hopes and without regrets (without regrets)

Et si tu n'existais pas (n'existait pas)

And if you didn't exist (didn't exist)

J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour (je vais inventer l'amour)

I would try to invent love (I'll invent love)

Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts (ses doigts)

Like a painter who sees beneath his hands (his hands)

Naître les couleurs du jour (du jour)

The colors of the day coming to life (of the day)

Et qui n'en revient pas, non, non

And can't believe it, no, no

Si tu n'existais pas

If you didn't exist

Si tu n'existais pas

If you didn't exist

Ohh yeah

Oh yeah

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
exister /ɛg.zi.ste/ A2	verb - to exist
regret /ʁə.ɡʁɛ/ B1	noun - a feeling of sorrow or remorse for a mistake or wrong verb - to feel sorry about something
amour /a.muʁ/ B2	noun - love
peindre /pɛ̃dʁ/ C1	verb - to paint
couleurs /kulœʁ/ A2	noun plural - colors
point /pwẽ/ A1	noun - a work of art produced by dotting ink or paint
perdu /pɛʁ.dy/ B2	adjective - lost
sentirais /sɑ̃.tiʁe/ B2	verb (conditional form) - to feel
vie /vi/ A2	noun - life
créer /kʁe.e/ B2	verb - to create
regarder /ʁə.ɡaʁ.de/ B2	verb - to look at

Key Grammar Structures

• Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais

  ➔ Conditional tense (would)

  ➔ The phrase uses the conditional tense "existerais" to express hypothetical situations or what would happen under certain conditions.

• Et si tu n'existais pas

  ➔ Present subjunctive in a conditional clause

  ➔ The phrase introduces a hypothetical scenario using a past tense in the negative form, indicating a condition that is contrary to reality.

• J'inventerais l'amour

  ➔ Conditional tense (would invent)

  ➔ The verb "inventerais" is in the conditional tense, expressing a hypothetical action that would happen if certain conditions were met.

• Naître les couleurs du jour

  ➔ Infinitive verb phrase indicating an action

  ➔ The infinitive "naître" expresses the action of 'giving birth' or 'coming into being,' illustrating creation or emergence in a poetic sense.

• Je ne serais qu'un point de plus

  ➔ Conditional tense with "serais" (would be), combined with "ne...que" for emphasis

  ➔ The phrase combines the conditional "serais" with "ne...que" to mean "would be only," emphasizing insignificance or being one among many.