Benjamin Biolay
Ballade Française lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2016
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:17
Tombe la pluie sur les carreaux
The rain falls on the windows
Tendre et fragile comme la peau
Tender and fragile like the skin
De tramontane en alizé
From tramontane to trade winds
Vogue mon âme vandalisée
Sail my vandalized soul
Plonge l'azur sous les carreaux
Drench the azure beneath the glass
Chante sirène comme en écho
Sing siren like in echoes
De tramontane en alizé
From tramontane to trade winds
Rendre les armes dévalisé
Surrender the arms ransacked
Et de partout dans la nuit de France
And from everywhere in the night of France
Y'en a beaucoup des amoureux qui dansent, qui dansent
There are many lovers who dance, who dance
Moi j'écoute la pluie ressassée toute ma vie jour et nuit
I listen to the rain replayed all my life, day and night
Tombe les feuilles sous le préau
Leaves fall under the shelter
Dans ma mémoire il faisait beau
In my memory, the weather was fine
De tramontane en alizé
From tramontane to trade winds
Vogue mon âme vandalisée
Sails my vandalized soul
Sèche la pluie sous le vent chaud
Dry the rain under the warm wind
Sous les caresses du sirocco
Under the caresses of the sirocco
De tramontane en alizé
From tramontane to trade winds
Rendre les armes dévalisé
Surrender the arms, ransacked
Et de partout dans la nuit de France
And from everywhere in the night of France
Y'en a beaucoup des amoureux qui dansent, qui dansent
There are many lovers who dance, who dance
Moi j'écoute la pluie ressassée toute ma vie jour et nuit
As for me, I listen to the rain, replaying my whole life, day and night
Loin du ciel de Paris
Far from the sky of Paris
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Key vocabulary
- tombe
- fallsA1
- sirène
- sirenB1
- écho
- echoB2
- rendre
- returnA1
- armes
- weaponsA1
- dévalisé
- robbed
- partout
- everywhereA1
- carreaux
- tiles
- tramontane
- from abroadC2
- alizé
- trade wind
Test yourself
How much of Ballade Française did you catch?
A quick quiz on the key words from this song.
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.