Benjamin Biolay
Paris, Paris ♥ lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2005
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:20
A l'école de la survie
At the school of survival
Moins tu pleures et moins tu ris
The less you cry, the less you laugh
Moins tu frappes plus tu cries
The less you hit, the more you scream
Si tu prends sur ta personne
If you take it upon yourself
Alors tu n'es plus personne
Then you are no one anymore
Et la vie te rettrappe et s'enfuit
And life catches up with you and runs away
Chaque soir retombe la nuit
Every night falls once more
Ton voisin joue "Louie Louie"
Your neighbor plays 'Louie Louie'
Tu penses aux mots qu'on n'a pas dit
You think of the words that were left unspoken
Tu détestes Paris, Paris
You hate Paris, Paris
Chaque soir retombe la nuit
Every evening the night falls again
Que la foule est jeune et jolie
How young and beautiful the crowd is
Quand on est seul et incompris
When you're alone and misunderstood
Dans les rues de Paris, Paris
In the streets of Paris, Paris
Paris, Paris...
Paris, Paris...
Dans le verre où tu te noies
In the glass where you drown
Tu vois des milliers d'éclats
You see thousands of glimmers
Des méduses de combat
Combat jellyfish
Tu vois de millions d'étoiles
You see millions of stars
Rien ne te semble anormal
Nothing seems abnormal to you
Mais ça t'use, et tu ruses quelquefois
But it wears you out, and sometimes you scheme
Chaque soir retombe la nuit
Every evening the night falls again
Ton voisin joue "Louie Louie"
Your neighbor plays 'Louie Louie'
Tu penses aux mots qu'on n'a pas dit
You think of the words we never said
Tu détestes Paris, Paris
You hate Paris, Paris
Chaque soir retombe la nuit
Every evening the night falls again
Tu te sers un Bloody Mary
You pour yourself a Bloody Mary
Tu deviens ton propre sosie
You become your own doppelgänger
Dans les rues de Paris, Paris
In the streets of Paris, Paris
Chaque soir retombe la nuit
Every evening the night falls again
Ton voisin joue "Louie Louie"
Your neighbor plays 'Louie Louie'
Tu penses aux mots qu'on a pas dit
You're thinking of the words we didn't say
Tu détestes Paris, Paris
You hate Paris, Paris
Paris, Paris...
Paris, Paris...
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Key vocabulary
- semble
- seemsA1
- soir
- eveningA1
- verre
- glassA1
- vie
- lifeA1
- vois
- seeA1
- voisin
- neighborA1
- école
- school
- survie
- survivalB2
- moins
- lessA1
- pleures
- criesB2
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.