Benjamin Biolay
Happy Hour lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2017
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 4:40
C'est l'homme que tu sois
It's the man that you are
Un plaisir d'offrir
A joy to give
Une joie de recevoir
A delight to receive
Voir les autres c'est pire
Seeing others is worse
Ton destin tes choix
Your destiny, your choices
Tout ce monde désire
This whole world desires
Train d'amour en retard
Love train running late
Train de vie d'émir
Life train of an emir
Le pas d'Emy Lince
The step of Emy Lince
Sur le pavé
On the cobblestones
Russe et supplice
Russian and torture
D'un pied mauvais
With a crooked step
Personne n'est complice
No one is an accomplice
Mais tout le monde est suspect
But everyone is a suspect
Ce soir y'a plus personne sur la piste
Tonight there’s no one on the dance floor
Ce soir Paris a l'alcool triste
Tonight Paris has a sorrowful drink
L'alcool triste
The sorrowful drink
L'alcool triste
The sorrowful drink
Le pont mirabeau
The Mirabeau bridge
Du nom du vieux traître
In the name of the old traitor
Enjambe le fleuve
Step over the river
Où l'on noie le prêtre
Where they drown the priest
Des tours flambant neuve
Of brand new towers
Sur des kilométres
For miles and miles
Aucun avion ne se pose sur piste
No planes land on the runway
Ce soir paris a la L'alcool triste
Tonight Paris has the sad booze
L'alcool triste
The sad booze
L'alcool triste
The sad booze
Des tours flambant neuve
Of brand new towers
De plus en plus vide
More and more empty
Depuis la Courneuve
From Courneuve
Jusqu'aux pyramides
To the pyramids
En bas de chez moi
Down the street from my place
Quelqu'une ce fixe
Someone is staring
Pendant que je bois
While I drink
Dans un sauna mixte
In a mixed sauna
A part plié les bras
Aside from folding my arms
A pied a heure fixe
On foot at a set time
Ce soir y'a plus personne sur la piste
Tonight there's no one on the dance floor
Ce soir paris a l'alcool triste
Tonight Paris has a sad thirst
L'alcool triste
The sad alcohol
C'est l'homme que tu sois
It's the man you are
Un plaisir d'offrir
A pleasure to give
Une joie de recevoir
A joy to receive
Voir les autres c'est pire
Seeing others is worse
Ton destin tes choix
Your destiny, your choices
Tout ce monde désire
This world desires everything
Train d'amour en retard
Love train running late
Train de vie d'émir
Life train of an emir
J'aime les paroles
I love the lyrics
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Key vocabulary
- piste
- trackA1
- plus
- moreA1
- pont
- bridgeA1
- pyramides
- pyramidsA1
- retard
- delayA1
- soir
- eveningA1
- tours
- towersA1
- homme
- man
- sois
- beB1
- plaisir
- pleasureA1
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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.