Cœur de Pirate
Les Amours dévouées lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2011
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 2:28
On ne vit pas au large, mais bien pris en charge de distance, nous, amants séparés
We don't live far away, but well taken care of from a distance, we, separated lovers
Par des docks hantés aux barques amarrées
By haunted docks with moored boats
Qui nous tiennent au bord des sentiments
That keep us on the edge of feelings
Mais j'arrive et que celles qui t'attendent ne t'attendent plus jamais
But I'm coming, and those who wait for you will wait for you no more
Ou se fassent un sang d'encre pour ce diamant que j'ai
Or bleed ink for this diamond that I have
Si je dois moi-même tendre la carte d'une dévouée
If I must be the one to hold out the card of a devoted heart
Personne n'a l'emprise que tu as sur moi, sur mon souffle qui reste saccadé
No one has the hold that you have on me, on my breath that remains ragged
Des courses contre le vent qui ne comptent plus maintenant
Races against the wind that don't matter anymore now
Qu'on s'est dit qu'on s'appartenait
Since we said we belonged to each other
Mais j'arrive et que celles qui t'attendent ne t'attendent plus jamais
But I'm coming, and those who wait for you will wait for you no more
Ou se fassent un sang d'encre pour ce diamant que j'ai
Or if they shed a river of ink for this diamond that I have
Si je dois moi-même tendre la carte d'une dévouée
If I must myself extend the map of a devoted heart
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Key vocabulary
- large
- wideA1
- tiennent
- hold
- attendent
- they wait
- sang
- bloodA2
- vit
- livesB2
- bien
- wellC1
- pris
- takenC1
- amants
- loversB2
- séparés
- separatedA2
- hantés
- hauntedB2
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.