Christine and the Queens
Ugly-Pretty lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2014
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:26
Pretty
Let's cease this long-time mockery
Let's end this long-standing farce
Without distraught there's no beauty
Without distress, there's no beauty
You're both resplendent and rusty
You're both radiant and worn
Rusty
Worn
Pretty
Was your red mouth overflowing
The lightning's path under your skin
The veins that flowed over your chin
Your chin
Now these flowers are sold
This lover is cold
The hour is gone
The colour is wrong
And I want more
Than just a sip of it all (of it all)
Ugly
Is the black flag you wave at me
Nausea to make history
You think I'm lost, you just tease me
Tease me
Klaus was
The closest one to embody
This sharpest taste, "ugly-pretty"
It was for love and love only
Only
Now these flowers are sold
This lover is cold
The hour is gone
The colour is wrong
And I want more
Than just a sip of it all
Ils ont insisté pour me montrer une vidéo
They insisted on showing me a video
Où les visages s'effondraient à cause de la mauvaise connexion
Where faces collapsed due to the bad connection
Où les pénétrations en gros plan, promettaient des gouffres
Where close-up penetrations promised chasms
J'ai pensé aux creux sur ta peau
I thought of the hollows on your skin
Now these flowers are sold
This lover is cold
The hour is gone
The colour is wrong
And I want more
Than just a sip of it all
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Key vocabulary
- you're
- you are
- effondraient
- collapsed
- connexion
- connectionB2
- mauvaise
- badA1
- visages
- facesA1
- pénétrations
- penetrations
- gros
- bigA1
- let's
- let us
- resplendent
- splendid
- lightning's
- lightning
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About this song
Christine and the Queens, French (born Héloïse Letissier), is a synth-pop and art-pop artist known for highly choreographed performances and queer-themed songs. He gained recognition with the 2014 album Chaleur Humaine and later released Chris and the French-language Redcar project.