Benjamin Biolay
La Noyée lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2018
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:12
Tu t'en vas à la dérive
You're drifting away
Sur la rivière du souvenir
On the river of memory
Et moi, courant sur la rive,
And I, running on the shore,
Je te crie de revenir
I cry out for you to return
Mais, lentement, tu t'éloignes
But slowly, you move further away
Et dans ma course éperdue,
And in my frantic rush,
Peu à peu, je te regagne
Little by little, I regain
Un peu de terrain perdu
Some lost ground
De temps en temps, tu t'enfonces
From time to time, you sink
Dans le liquide mouvant
Into the flowing liquid
Ou bien, frôlant quelques ronces
Or brushing against some brambles
Tu hésites et tu m'attends
You hesitate and you wait for me
En te cachant la figure
Hiding your face
Dans ta robe retroussée,
In your lifted dress,
De peur que ne te défigurent
Fearing that shame and regrets
Et la honte et les regrets.
Will disfigure you.
Tu n'es plus qu'une pauvre épave,
You're nothing but a poor wreck,
Chienne crevée au fil de l'eau
A dead dog adrift in the water
Mais je reste ton esclave
But I remain your slave
Et plonge dans le ruisseau
And dive into the stream
Quand le souvenir s'arrête
When the memory comes to a halt
Et l'océan de l'oubli
And the ocean of forgetfulness
Brisant nos cœurs et nos têtes,
Breaking our hearts and our minds,
A jamais, nous réunit
Forever, it brings us together
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Key vocabulary
- peu
- fewA1
- revenir
- returnA1
- rivière
- riverA1
- souvenir
- memoryA1
- temps
- timeA1
- vas
- go
- dérive
- driftB2
- courant
- currentB1
- rive
- bankA2
- liquide
- liquidB2
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.