Benjamin Biolay
Adieu Paris lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2025
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 4:04
Quand la pluie sonne
When the rain rings
À mon carreau
At my window
La pluie d'automne
The autumn rain
Trop monotone
Too monotonous
À force d'eau
With so much water
Parties de cartes
Games of cards
Jouées solo
Played solo
Chat qui ronronne
A purring cat
Sans aucun tact
Without any tact
Tel un cabot
Like a mutt
La pluie de l'automne
The autumn rain
Me fend le cœur
Splits my heart
En plusieurs morceaux
Into several pieces
Paris les bains
Paris the seaside
Paris chagrin
Paris sorrow
Paris station balnéaire
Paris beach resort
Le pied marin
The seafaring foot
Ne me sert à rien
Is of no use to me
Sans bord de mer
Without the sea edge
Sans brise-lames
Without breakwaters
Et sans cargo
And without cargo
Adieu Paname
Goodbye Paris
Tu pleures trop
You cry too much
Quand la pluie cogne
When the rain knocks
Sur les carreaux
On the windows
Les lits frissonnent
The beds shiver
De la Sorbonne
From the Sorbonne
Aux maréchaux
To the marshals
Entre les flaques
Between the puddles
Cœur ou pépin
Heart or seed
Des vieux énarques
Old bureaucrats
En mocassins
In loafers
Qui ne voient plus rien
Who see nothing anymore
La pluie de l'automne
The autumn rain
Me fend le cœur
Tears my heart
En plusieurs morceaux
Into several pieces
Paris les bains
Paris the baths
Paris chagrin
Paris sorrow
Paris station balnéaire
Paris seaside resort
Le pied marin
The sailor's foot
Ne me sert à rien
It's of no use to me
Sans bord de mer
Without the seaside
Sans brise-lames
Without breakwaters
Et sans cargo
And without cargo
Adieu Paname
Goodbye Paris
Tu pleures trop
You cry too much
Quand la pluie chante
When the rain sings
Le même fado
The same fado
Cette insolente
This insolent one
Mouille les tempes
Wet the temples
Glace les dos
Ice on the backs
Larmes indolentes
Indolent tears
Ou grandes eaux
Or great waters
Crachins hors d'âge
Age-old drizzles
Bancs hors d'usage
Benches out of use
Et marrons chauds
And roasted chestnuts
La pluie de l'automne
The autumn rain
Me fend le cœur
Splits my heart
En plusieurs morceaux
Into several pieces
Paris les bains
Paris, the baths
Paris chagrin
Paris sorrow
Paris station balnéaire
Paris seaside resort
Le pied marin
The sailor's foot
Ne me sert à rien
Is of no use to me
Sans bord de mer
Without the seaside
Sans brise-lames
Without breakwaters
Et sans cargo
And without cargo
Adieu Paname
Goodbye Paname
Tu pleures trop
You cry too much
Sans demoiselle sur un piaggio
Without a maiden on a Piaggio
Adieu Paris
Goodbye Paris
Hasta luego
See you later
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Key vocabulary
- aucun
- noneA1
- bains
- bathsA1
- bord
- edgeA1
- cartes
- cardsA1
- chat
- catA1
- cœur
- heartA1
- lits
- bedsA1
- mer
- seaA1
- pied
- footA1
- pluie
- rainA1
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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.