Noir Désir
Aux sombres héros de l’amer lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1989
- Genre
- Rock
- Length
- 3:01
Qui ont sû traverser les océans du vide
Who managed to cross the empty oceans
À la mémoire de nos frères
In memory of our brothers
Dont les sanglots si longs faisaient couler l'acide
Whose long sobs made the acid flow
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Tout part toujours dans les flots
Everything always drifts away in the waves
Au fond des nuits sereines
At the bottom of serene nights
Ne vois-tu rien venir?
Don't you see anything coming?
Les naufragés et leurs peines qui jetaient l'encre ici
The shipwrecked and their sorrows who dropped anchor here
Et arrêtaient d'écrire
And stopped writing
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Ami, qu'on crève d'une absence
Friend, let us die from absence
Ou qu'on crève un abcès
Or let us burst an abscess
C'est le poison qui coule
It's the poison that flows
Certains nageaient sous les lignes de flottaison intimes
Some swam beneath the intimate waterlines
À l'intérieur des foules
Inside the crowds
Aux sombres héros de l'amer
To the dark heroes of the bitter
Qui ont sû traverser les océans du vide
Who knew how to cross the oceans of emptiness
À la mémoire de nos frères
In memory of our brothers
Dont les sanglots si longs faisaient couler l'acide
Whose long sobs made the acid flow
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
Always lost in the sea
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Key vocabulary
- nuits
- nightsA1
- sereines
- calmB2
- vois-tu
- do you see
- rien
- nothingA1
- naufragés
- shipwreckedB2
- abcès
- abscess
- coule
- flowsB1
- certains
- certainA1
- nageaient
- were swimming
- flottaison
- buoyancy
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About this song
Noir Désir is a French alternative rock band formed in the early 1980s. Known for their punk-influenced, hard-edged sound and albums such as Veuillez rendre l’âme (à qui elle appartient), Du ciment sous les plaines, and Tostaky.