Sur Une Colline Lyrics English translation

I would like to be atop a hill
where one breathes miraculous air
where the warm breeze caresses you as it blows
where the horizon merges in the blue

Here, everything is in smoke
everything is gray, it is all houses
and past sorrows
which stagnate in my prison
every stone tells a story
a story that is very sad
and of all the little inglorious dramas
in the memory of which one cries

I would like to be atop a hill
where one breathes miraculous air
where the warm breeze caresses you as it blows
where the horizon merges in the blue

I write these pitiful figures
in a big white register
And in this sad setting
there are those who are contentÉdith Piaf - Sur Une Colline - http://motolyrics.com/edith-piaf/sur-une-colline-lyrics-english-translation.html
but my heart knows the martyrdom in that
I need an airy space
and the sound of the typewriters
torments me to tears

I would like to be near a river
where the sun makes its trembling reflections
on the green grass that borders a glade
While in the sky, white flakes pass by

I know that one can live
Far from cities, far from roads
i have read in many books
that which i did not know
i would like to be swept by passion
and to be taken away for a while
and sometimes i wish I were dead
buried, in fields

I would like to be atop a hill
where one breathes miraculous air
where the warm breeze caresses you as it blows
where the horizon merges in the blue.