Benjamin Biolay
Adieu triste amour lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2005
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:36
Je confesse qu'il me faut du temps
I confess that I need some time
De tendresse, je n'en attendais pas tant
I wasn't expecting so much tenderness
La détresse te va comme un gant
Despair fits you like a glove
Je te laisse pour un long moment
I leave you for a long moment
Rien dans ce monde ne me retient
Nothing in this world holds me back
Bonne journée, adieu triste amour
Have a good day, goodbye sad love
Pense à moi un peu moins chaque jour
Think of me a little less each day
Ma jeunesse ne fout pas le camp
My youth isn't slipping away
Dans l'ivresse tout est mieux qu'avant
In drunkenness, everything's better than before
Chaque seconde me revient
Every second comes back to me
Bonne journée, adieu triste amour
Good day, farewell my sad love
N'oublie pas que c'était nos beaux jours
Don't forget that those were our beautiful days
Loin des remparts de la prison
Far from the walls of the prison
Regarder l'arbre, n'y voir qu'un tronc
Looking at the tree, seeing only a trunk
Un tronçon d'âme moribond
A segment of a dying soul
M'appelle au calme, à la raison
Calls me to calm, to reason
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Key vocabulary
- confesse
- confessB2
- faut
- must
- temps
- timeA1
- tendresse
- tendernessB2
- va
- go
- peu
- fewA1
- attendais
- waited
- tant
- so muchA1
- oublie
- forget
- détresse
- distressB2
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.