Benjamin Biolay
La Plage lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2004
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 4:42
Les flamands roses s'en vont
The flamingos are leaving
Sans se faire la moindre illusion
Without harboring the slightest illusion
Sur les hommes
About men
Les femmes nus
The women bare
La marée haute s'en vient
The high tide is coming in
Par sa grâce il ne reste rien
By His grace, nothing remains
De la foule
Of the crowd
Infâme nue
Infamous and bare
Je t'attendrai sur la plage
I'll wait for you on the beach
Ou le long des piscines
Or along the pools
En fumant la résine
While smoking resin
En trichant sur mon âge
While lying about my age
Je t'attendrai sur la plage
I'll wait for you on the beach
Près d'un aérosol
Next to an aerosol
Au sixième sous-sol
In the sixth basement
Ou un pied dans la marge
Or with one foot in the margin
Les nuages font et défont
The clouds create and destroy
Des mirages de plumes de goudron
Mirages of tar feathers
Pour les hommes
For the men
Les femmes nus
The women nude
Les flamands roses reviennent
The pink flamingos return
Dans le vent de l'est d'Eden
In the east wind of Eden
Et la foule
And the crowd
Infâme les tue
Infamous, kills them
Je t'attendrai sur la plage
I will wait for you on the beach
Ou le long des piscines
Or along the pools
En fumant la résine
Smoking the resin
Résigné sur mon âge
Resigned about my age
Je t'attendrai sur la plage
I will wait for you on the beach
Près d'un aérosol
Near an aerosol
Au sixième sous-sol
In the sixth basement
Ou un pied dans la marge
Or a foot in the margin
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Key vocabulary
- flamands
- FlemingsB2
- vont
- go
- faire
- doB1
- moindre
- lesserB2
- hommes
- menA1
- femmes
- womenA1
- nus
- nakedB1
- marée
- tideB2
- infâme
- infamousC2
- nue
- nakedB2
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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.