Benjamin Biolay
Revoir Paris lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 2015
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 2:55
Revoir Paris, un petit séjour d'un mois
Revisiting Paris, a little month-long stay
Revoir Paris et me retrouver chez moi
Revisiting Paris and finding myself at home
Seul sous la pluie parmi la foule des grands boulevards
Alone in the rain among the crowd of grand boulevards
Quelle joie inouïe d'aller ainsi au hasard
What incredible joy to wander in such randomness
Prendre un taxi qui va le long de la Seine
Taking a taxi that rides along the Seine
Et me revoici au fond du bois de Vincennes
And here I am back in the depths of Vincennes woods
Roulant joyeux vers ma maison de banlieue
Rolling happily toward my suburban home
Où ma mère m'attend les larmes aux yeux, le cœur content
Where my mother waits for me, tears in her eyes, heart full
Ce n'est pas un rêve, c'est l'île d'amour que je vois
It's not a dream, it's the island of love that I see
Le jour se lève et sèche les pleurs des bois
The day is rising and drying the tears of the woods
Dans la petite gare, un sémaphore appelle ces gens
At the little station, a semaphore calls these folks
Tous ces braves gens de la Varenne et de Nogent
All these good folks from Varenne and Nogent
Bonjour la vie, bonjour mon vieux soleil
Hello life, hello my old sun
Bonjour mamie, bonjour l'automne vermeil
Hello grandma, hello autumn in crimson
Je suis un enfant, rien qu'un enfant tu sais
I am a child, just a child you know
Je suis qu'un petit Français
I am just a little Frenchman
Rien qu'un enfant, tout simplement
Just a child, simply that
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Key vocabulary
- bonjour
- helloA1
- enfant
- childA1
- français
- FrenchA1
- gens
- peopleA1
- vieux
- oldA1
- vois
- seeA1
- aller
- go
- ainsi
- thusA1
- petit
- smallA1
- pluie
- rainA1
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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.