Encore Un Soir : A Heartbreaking Outcry - Celine Dion
Encore Un Soir
Céline Dion’s Heartbreaking Outcry
I was driving home one evening when a voice on the radio caught my attention. I increased the volume. It was Celine Dion
I had never been a Céline fan, not for any good or bad reason, it’s just that I’m usually tuned to old hits of yesteryears, my favourites, and I don’t listen to much else. But that song… Once I started listening, I just couldn’t stop! Something just happened. I felt a great rush of emotion come through me and my mind wandered away from the monotony of the awful traffic. That voice, now whispering, now soaring, was so intense that I found myself pulling the car over to the side of the congested road so I could concentrate on the song and the sensation it created in me.
Time Stops for No One
The song was like a personal supplication – an urgent appeal – delivered in a crystal-clear and powerful way. I soon found myself joining in that pleading which entreated Time to stop for just one more night, one more hour, one more tear of bliss.
Today, months after the release of the French-language album, Céline Dion’s poignant rendering of Jean-Jacques Goldman’s stirring lyrics and music, continues to send chills up the spine in a most uplifting way.
Here is an excerpt of the song “Encore Un Soir” (One More Night) which I’ve attempted to translate to English for our readers who may still want to listen to it once again and have their mind race with questions about life to which they will find no answers:
A picture, a date,
It's hard to believe it
But it was only yesterday, my memory would lie to me
And those children faces, and mine in that mirror
Oh, it's not that I’m complaining
From that, you’ve nothing to fear
Life has indulged me so much
I find it rather hard to stifle it
Oh God, I did get my share
And so much more in so many ways
But when one lives too exquisitely too strongly
One forgets the Time that goes by
Just as we lose a little of our bearings
When in the midst of too large an expanse
Hardly have we time to get used to it
Than we have to move and vacate the scene
Oh, if I could…
One more night!
One more hour!
One more tear of happiness!
A favor, like a flower
A breath, an error
A little bit of us,
A bit of almost nothing
To sum it all up again
Or to keep quiet with eyes speaking
Just a postponement
Only just,
I know, it’s late!
I’ve never asked for anything
This, is not asking the impossible!
Come on! In the face of Eternity
This will not even be noticed!
It will remain just between you and me
Oh, just a slight postponement!
It's not very much,
Simply a suspension
Let Time and timepiece rest
And caress just a kiss,
One kiss!
One more night!
One more hour!
A little bit of us,
A little bit of everything!
A night!
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