Au Café des délices [English translation]

Your memories become shrouded

As like an eclipse

A night filled with stars

On the port of Tunis

The breeze of the fan

Of your grandfather sitting

at the Café des Délices (Café of Delights)

Your memories become shrouded

You see the tram passing

And the whiteness of veils

Women holding their sons

And the scent of jasmine

That he carries in his hands

At the Café des Délices

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil yalil

Your memories become shrouded

You see her again, the girl

The kiss that wounds

At El Kantaoui Port

The first words of love

Crooned from songs of velvet

Habibi habibi

Your memories become shrouded

You loved these fruits

The pits of apricots

For you, they were marbles

And the festive evenings

That we created in our heads

At the beaches of Hammamet

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil

Your memories become shrouded

At the bow of the ship

And this quay that grows distant

Towards a new world

A life that stops

For a day that begins

Perhaps it's a chance

Yalil yalil you will not forget

Yalil yalil these perfumes from another time

Yalil yalil you will not forget

Yalil yalil even if you leave

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil…

A night filled with stars

On the port of Tunis

And the whiteness of veils

Women holding their sons

The breeze of the fan

Of your grandfather sitting

And the scent of jasmine

That he carries in his hands

at the Café des Délices (Café of Delights)

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil

Yalil yalil habibi yalil yalil yalil habibi yalil…

at the Café des Délices

at the Café des Délices.

• Artist:Patrick Bruel