Benjamin Biolay
Mon pays lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2025
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:08
Dans la jungle, un héliport
In the jungle, a heliport
Pour rejoindre la ville
To reach the city
Odeur de gazoline forte
Strong smell of gasoline
Et l'oiseau interdit
And the forbidden bird
Comme fièvre embrase le bitume
Like fever igniting the asphalt
Et les fruits rêvent de la pluie
And the fruits dream of rain
Tiens-toi sage, ô mon vieux pays
Stay wise, oh my old country
Avant la nuit des algues brunes
Before the night of brown seaweed
La mer de mille ans et demi
The sea of a thousand and a half years
Que ne rougissent nos collines
That our hills do not blush
Tiens-toi sage, ô mon vieux pays
Hold yourself steady, oh my old country
Tant d'acie et tant de corps
So much steel and so many bodies
Tant de mélancolie
So much melancholy
Aujourd'hui maman est presque morte
Today, mom is almost gone
Sans en faire une vie
Without making it a life
La fièvre embrase le bitume
The fever ignites the pavement
Et les fruits rêvent de la pluie
And the fruits dream of the rain
Tiens-toi sage, ô mon vieux pays
Hold yourself steady, oh my old country
Avant la nuit des algues brunes
Before the night of brown seaweeds
La mer de mille ans et demi
The sea of a thousand and a half years
Que ne rougissent nos collines
Let not our hills turn red
Tiens-toi sage, ô mon vieux pays
Stay wise, oh my old country
On s'habitue, on s'accoutume
We get used to it, we acclimate
On se drape dans le déni
We wrap ourselves in denial
Tiens-toi sage, ô mon vieux pays
Stay wise, oh my old country
Tiens-toi sage, ô mon vieux pays
Stay wise, oh my old country
Mon vieux pays
My old country
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Key vocabulary
- héliport
- heliport
- rejoindre
- joinB1
- ville
- cityA1
- tiens-toi
- hold
- sage
- wiseA2
- ô
- ohB2
- vieux
- oldA1
- pays
- countryA1
- odeur
- smellA1
- gazoline
- gasoline
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.