Come Rain or Come Shine / Qui aime comme j’aime
Come Rain or Come Shine: a joyful, confident declaration of love, expressing an unshakeable faith in the strength and reciprocity of feeling. What was at first a flirtation, nothing more than a tease, something that could not have gone any further, turns into a love as deep as a riverbed and as solid as a mountain.
Qui aime comme j’aime (who loves as I love) : due to the constraints of prosody, I had to move away from the metaphor of rain and sunshine. Thus, “come rain or come shine” became in French « qui aime comme j’aime »/“who loves as I love”, the central theme around which I wove another declaration of love just as devoid of solemnity, indifferent to life’s trials and tribulations, and imbued with the confidence that we can only gain by betting on love, by surrendering to it without reservation.
Come Rain or Come Shine
Written by
Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer
I’m gonna love you like nobody’s loved you / Come rain or come shine / High as a mountain and deep as a river / Come rain or come shine
I guess when you met me / It was just one of those things / But don’t you ever bet me / ‘Cause I’m gonna be true if you let me
You’re gonna love me like nobody’s loved me / Come rain or come shine / Happy together, unhappy together / And won’t that be fine
Days may be cloudy or sunny / We’re in or we’re out of the money / But I’m with you always / I’m with you rain or shine
Qui aime comme j’aime
French kiss by
François Godin
Qui aime se rit de savoir pourquoi / Qui aime comme j’aime / Qui aime se donne, c’est sa seule loi / Qui aime comme j’aime
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Le jour où tu m’as souri / Tu croyais à une aventure / Mais voilà que ça dure / Veux-tu bien ne pas prendre cet air surpris
Qui aime s’y pique, les roses ont leurs épines / Problème, mais on s’aime / Que sont les petits riens qui froissent, qui chagrinent ? / On s’aime quand même
Ose dire que c’est pour la vie / Ne veux-tu pas en faire le pari ? / Pour moi, j’y compte bien / Si tu m’aimes comme je t’aime
Who Loves As I Love
Translation of the
French adaptation
He who loves has no clue why / He who loves as I love / He who loves gives it all, it’s his only law / He who loves as I love
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The day you smiled at me / You believed it would just be a fling / But see, how it lasts! / Please don’t look so surprised
He who loves pricks himself, roses have their thorns / So what? It’s part of the game! / What are the little things that offend, that sadden? / We still love each other
Dare to say that it’s for life / Don’t you want to bet on it? / As for me, I'm counting on it / If you love me like I love you
The voice/piano demos of the French versions were recorded for the strict purpose of presenting my adaptation work. No broadcasting or public sharing on social networks, media or any other platform is authorized.
Any recording or public presentation by third parties of the songs in their French version is subject to my authorization as well as that of the rights holders of the original song.
