Benjamin Biolay
A House Is Not a Home lyrics
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2004
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:59
A chair is still a chair
Even when there's no one sitting there
But a chair is not a house
And a house is not a home
When there's no one there to hold you tight,
And no one there you can kiss good night.
A room is still a room
Even when there's nothing there but gloom;
But a room is not a house,
And a house is not a home
When the two of us are far apart
And one of us has a broken heart.
Now and then I call your name
And suddenly your face appears
But it's just a crazy game
When it ends it ends in tears.
Darling, have a heart,
Don't let one mistake keep us apart.
I'm not meant to live alone. turn this house into a home.
When I climb the stair and turn the key,
Oh, please be there still in love with me.
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Key vocabulary
- there's
- there is
- but
- goalB1
- can
- able
- gloom
- darkness
- has
- you have
- it's
- it is
- don't
- don’tB1
- i'm
- I am
- mistake
- error
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About this song
Benjamin Biolay is a French singer-songwriter and arranger in the tradition of chanson. He is known for writing and performing gruff, low-register songs that move between modern French pop, rock, and reworked tango and Latin rhythms, with albums such as Trash Yeye, Palmero Hollywood, and Trenet.