Sarah Brightman - Un jour il viendra

Dans les heures qui viennent.
Ou bien l'année prochaine
Peu m'importe j'attends,
Car c'est l'homme que j'aime.
Et je l'attendrai même plus longtemps.

Un jour il viendra,
Mon bel amour d'hier.
Et demain l'amour renaîtra.
Un beau jour de lumière.

Le bonheur suprême.
Et les nuits qui s'enchainent.
Une a une longtemps.
Dans les heures qui viennent.
Ou bien l'année prochaine.
Je l'attends.

Un jour il viendra.
Mon bel amour d'hier.
L'amour reviendra
Par un jour de lumière.

Si c'est un rêve.
Faites qu'il dure encore,
Oh mon rêve.
Faites qu'il dure encore.

Un jour il viendra.
Mon bel amour d'hier.
L'amour reviendra
Par un jour de lumière.

Si c'est un rêve.
Faites qu'il dure encore,
Oh mon rêve.
Faites qu'il dure encore,
Un jour.

Music: Gabriel Yared
Lyrics: Michael Jonasz

From: Eden (1998).

Source of the lyrics: the CD-booklet.
Some notes though:

• Mike Smith correctly pointed out that the word -- "hier" which appears four times -- has no accent on it, contrary to what the booklet shows (which has "hièr").
• In the third stanza the CD-booklet has the spelling "renaîtrà", but Mike informs me that it should be without the accent on the 'a'.
• The same counts for the first use of "reviendra", which incorrectly has an accent in the booklet ("reviendrà").
• Near the end Sarah sings very unclear high, and the last 3-4 lines of the lyrics are not very clearly understandable.
• And Josemaria Bahena Gomez pointed to the fact that "même" is with a circumflex accent, not a grave accent (mème) as in the CD-booklet; the same counts for "suprême", I then noticed.

Luz del Carmen Osorio Armenta wrote me that the music of this song can be heard in the movie "The English Patient"; in fact the whole musical score of that movie was from Gabriel Yared.

Johan Jarl sent me the following translation into English, which may still need some improvements; Carlos Edmar de Almeida Souza sent me a correction that completed the second stanza, and Mike also sent me some corrections.
As Stephen Schrader, Jr. pointed out to me:
            "viendra" means "will come"
            "reviendra" means "will return"
Thus "will come" should be used in the translation, but it makes more sense to say One day he will return / My dear love of yesterday than to say One day he will come / ...".

One day he'll return

One day he'll return
My dear love from yesterday
Love will return
On a day of light

In the hours that come
Or in the coming year
I don't care if I have to wait
Because it is the man I love
And I'll be waiting for him even longer

One day he'll return
My dear love from yesterday
And tomorrow love will be reborn
One fine light day

The supreme hapiness
And the nights that follow each other
One after the other for a long time
In the hours that will come
Or in the coming year
I'll be waiting for you

One day he'll return
My dear love from yesterday
Love will return
On a day of light

If it's a dream
Make it still last
Oh, my dream
Make it still last

One day he'll return
My dear love from yesterday
Love will return
On a day of light

If it's a dream
Make it still last
Oh, my dream
Make it still last
One day

 
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