L'Amour Existe Encore: Real translation of French (with accurate English lyrics)

[emilynghiem]

Aah the French. Always romanticizing Love.
Here's my version of "L'Amour Existe Encore" (Love still exists/endures)
Telling it like it is.

I think my lyrics fit the video and dramatic expressions much better.
What do you think? Should I send this to Celine Dion
as "How Can Love Survive" by Ceking Divorce:



Dear
When you're snoring by my side
And it keeps me up all night
(I wonder)
How can love survive?

Is it crazy or am I squirrely
To want some way to end this early
Short of suicide?

Our health insurance rates are better
As married folks who stay together
Unless we die of double murder!

I wish some random chick at Wal-Mart
Would grab and take you home in her cart!
I thank my stars you've got a job,
At least you're good at fixing cars....

When
You fart at dinner time,
There's no question that you're mine.
I'm stuck with you for life,
Who else would be your wife?

How many couples break up over
A jealous ex or secret lover?
With you there is no other:

Nobody else could watch you slobber
On the pillow while you slumber
Like a pile of formless blubber!

No wonder there's domestic violence!
People jumping off a high ledge!
Begging Death to stop the carriage
And kindly end their life of marriage!

When
We took our wedding vows,
The longer years we didn't count.
We should be dead by now!
But love survives somehow,
Our love survives somehow!

When I hear of wives and husbands
Who would kill to claim insurance,
Perhaps they're better off than me
To spend eternity in prisons....

When
I lie awake at night
Cuz you're snoring by my side
How long can love survive?

drifter Impenitent hope this makes you smile/sourire

Original Lyrics:

 

[Auld Phart]

Heck, I opened this thread because I thought it was about the author Louis L'amour

 

[emilynghiem]

Heck, I opened this thread because I thought it was about the author Louis L'amour

Oh, now let's not go there with Westerns or satires on Westerns.
Like karaoke, those spoofs are either superbly good or painfully bad.
The Good are sadly outnumbered by the Bad and the Ugly.
(I also write country songs that are so bad they border on terroristic, they make a good emetic if you want to induce vomiting. I save them for people who need a reminder that things can always be worse than you imagine.)

 

[emilynghiem]

REVISED lyrics

. . .

When
You fart at dinner time,
There's no question in my mind:
I'm stuck with you for life,
Who else would be your wife?

So many couples break up over
A jealous ex or secret lover,
With you there is no other:

Nobody else could stand your slobber
As you drool in peaceful slumber
A spineless pile of useless blubber!

. . .

 

[emilynghiem]

Dear
When you're snoring by my side
And it keeps me up all night
(I wonder)
How can love survive?

* Am I crazy? Is it squirrely
To want some way to end this early
Short of suicide?

Our health insurance rates are better
As married folks who stay together
Unless we die of double murder!

I wish some random chick at Wal-Mart
Would grab and take you home in her cart!
* Thank God at least you've got a job,
* And you're good at fixing cars....

When
You fart at dinner time,
There's no question that you're mine.
I'm stuck with you for life,
Who else would be your wife?

* So many couples break up over
A jealous ex or secret lover,
With you there is no other:

* Nobody else could stand your slobber
* As you drool in peaceful slumber
* Like a pile of useless blubber!

No wonder there's domestic violence!
* Lovers leaping off a high ledge!
Begging Death to stop the carriage
And kindly end their life of marriage!

When
We took our wedding vows,
The longer years we didn't count.
We should be dead by now!
But love survives somehow!!
Our love survives somehow!!!

When I hear of wives and husbands
Who would kill to claim insurance,
* At least they're better off than me
* Free to spend their lives in prisons....

Hon
When I lie awake at night
Cuz you're snoring by my side
How long can love survive?