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In Love (Aimer)

Original English lyrics to my nemesis the bane of my existence “Aimer” from Roméo et Juliette. My latest breakthrough is without a doubt the counterpart solos; no matter how many improvements I made, I could never come up with decent lines. I do slightly regret not being able to include some ideas like leaving fear behind and love giving meaning to your life (the Hungarian equivalent especially is so nice). But at least with these lyrics I get to have both commentary re: the feud and epic foreshadowing in my non-aria aria, which is nice. What can I say, my English RetJ are expert shade-throwers, 200% done with literally everything, and have slightly feral vibes (canon-compliant, naturally). You guys will tell me if I have completed the assignment. Reblog, like, comment, etc.

MAJOR-ISH EDIT 7/9/23: Tweaked some of the words (the "our" was perhaps too on-the-nose for my tastes). Also decided to replace the Chorus echo of Juliet's verse with an original one à la Hungarian to lessen repetition somewhat and give a sense of ˜progression. If you dislike it, just pretend it's the Juliet verse echo; that works too. Otherwise...not gonna lie, this is looking pretty official; at the very least the B-melody verse is set in stone. Which means, of course, that I will 99.999% change it up even more, lol.

MAJOR EDIT 8/30/23: Aaaaaaaand I’m back, changing things up some more. Surprise! So apparently the lot of you really didn’t like the repetitions…for a famously repetitious song at both the lyrical and melodic level. 😑 Luckily for you lot, I wasn’t satisfied with all the “I”s, so I took this opportunity to switch it to “we” and keep the gerunds. I had to sacrifice some of my internal rhymes (RIP), but I kept the most important stuff re: RetJ rhyming together. Plus, now they refer to each other as the married couple they most certainly are. It’s canonical, folks. Either way, this turned out to be one of my most faithful translations yet.

In Love (Aimer)

Romeo In love beyond this life’s end We’ll be until we’re rising And yearning in flight, in splendor In love, beyond this life’s end

Juliet In love, beyond this time’s end We’ll be until we’re binding And burning in flame, in tender In love, beyond this time’s end

Both In love, we’re strong together Fighting for one another Plighting to one another Our lives, our souls forever

Chorus In love beyond this life’s end We’ll be until we’re rising And yearning in flight, in splendor In love, beyond this life’s end

In love beyond this life’s dream We’ll be until we’re living And dwelling in hope, in meaning In love, beyond this life’s dream

In love beyond this world’s wrong (Juliet: Beyond this world’s wronging) We’ll be until we’re dying (Juliet: In love till I’m dying) And drowning in night, in longing In love, beyond this world’s wrong

In love beyond this life’s end (Romeo: Beyond this life’s ending) We’ll be until we’re rising (Romeo: In love till I’m rising) And yearning in flight, in splendor In love, beyond this life’s end

All In love...