
Patrick Bruel
La Complainte de la butte lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2003
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:24
En haut de la rue Saint-Vincent
At the top of Saint-Vincent street
Un poète et une inconnue
A poet and an unknown girl
S'aimèrent l'espace d'un instant
Loved each other for a fleeting moment
Mais il ne l'a jamais revue
But he never saw her again
Cette chanson il composa
This song he composed
Espérant que son inconnue
Hoping that his unknown girl
Un matin d'printemps l'entendra
One spring morning would hear it
Quelque part au coin de la rue
Somewhere at the corner of the street
La lune trop blême
The moon too pale
Pose un diadème
Lays a diadem
Sur tes cheveux roux
On your red hair
La lune trop rousse
The moon is too red
De gloire éclabousse
It splashes with glory
Ton jupon plein d'trous
Your petticoat full of holes
La lune trop pâle
The moon is too pale
Caresse l'opale
Caresses the opal
De tes yeux blasés
Of your jaded eyes
Princesse de la rue
Princess of the street
Soit la bienvenue
Be welcome
Dans mon cœur blessé
In my wounded heart
Les escaliers de la butte sont durs aux miséreux
The steps of the hill are harsh for the needy
Les ailes des moulins protègent les amoureux
The wings of the windmills shelter the lovers
Petite mandigotte
Little beggar
Je sens ta menotte
I feel your little hand
Qui cherche ma main
Who seeks my hand
Je sens ta poitrine
I feel your chest
Et ta taille fine
And your slender waist
J'oublie mon chagrin
I forget my sorrow
Je sens sur tes lèvres
I feel on your lips
Une odeur de fièvre
A scent of fever
De gosse mal nourri
As a poorly fed kid
Et sous ta caresse
And under your caress
Je sens une ivresse
I feel a drunkenness
Qui m'anéantit
That annihilates me
Les escaliers de la butte sont durs aux miséreux
The stairs of the hill are hard for the destitute
Les ailes des moulins protègent les amoureux
The wings of the windmills protect the lovers
Mais voilà qu'il flotte
But look, it's floating
La lune se trotte
The moon is strutting
La princesse aussi
The princess too
Sous le ciel sans lune
Under the moonless sky
Je pleure à la brune
I cry at dawn
Mon rêve évanoui
My dream vanished
Merci
Thank you
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Key vocabulary
- amoureux
- in loveA1
- aussi
- alsoA1
- caresse
- caressB1
- poitrine
- chestB1
- princesse
- princessB1
- rue
- streetA1
- revue
- reviewB1
- soit
- beA1
- composa
- composed
- trop
- tooA1
About this song
Patrick Bruel is a French singer and actor known for his prominence in 1990s pop and his later work in traditional French chanson. He rose to commercial success with the number one single “Alors Regarde” and has also maintained a parallel career in film, including César-nominated acting for Le Prénom.