Cœur de Pirate
Cast Away lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2015
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:16
Cast away the shadows of your heart
If you're always aiming for a better part
If you're always striving for a better role
In this play that punctuates your life, your goals
In this play that marks your life, your dreams
You think you know, you're down below
You think you understand, you're feeling low
And you've kept your distances from me
Carried on with all your fears that set you free
But at night you change into the darkest swan
With all its fears, you've come undone
I don't know if you've been hurt before
And all the scars your bare are from a previous war
And all the scars you bear are from a past war
But if it's fear of love that keeps you out of open arms
Then I will leave the lights on any trail to come
And you will find your way in any given storm
I remember walking you to hell
When you asked the man for one last mission bell
And I followed until the darkness came
I felt so lost, you were my cause
So I'll ask again and again
Why the courage left when you numbed the pain
Was I ever part of what you called your plan
I felt so lost that I left your cause
I don't know if you've been hurt before
And all the scars your bare are from a previous war
But if it's fear of love that keeps you out of open arms
Then I will leave the lights on any trail to come
And you will find your way in any given storm
You will find your way in any given storm
Key vocabulary
- cast
- throw
- aiming
- aimA1
- you're
- you are
- punctuates
- punctuate
- goals
- goal
- you've
- you have
- but
- goalB1
- don't
- don’tB1
- been
- —
- scars
- scar
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About this song
Cœur de Pirate (Béatrice Martin) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist in French-language pop and adult contemporary music. She is known for her breakout hit “Commes des enfants” and for writing and performing songs that reached audiences internationally, including her English-language single “Carry On” that entered Billboard’s Canadian Hot 100.