Renaud
Devant les lavabos lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1994
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:23
Elles s'en vont toujours par deux
They always leave in twos
Avant le dner, discrtes
Before dinner, discreetly
Pour se recoiffer un peu
To touch up their hair a bit
Pour s'changer en cachette
To change in secret
Quelques potins, quelques aveux
A few gossip, a few confessions
Quelle est la raison secrte
What is the secret reason
De cet exil mystrieux
For this mysterious exile
Qui les retient au petit coin?
That keeps them in the little corner?
Nos gonzesses
Our girls
Devant les lavabos
In front of the sinks
Se repoudrent le bout du nez
They powder the tip of their nose
Se font les lvres cerise
They paint their lips cherry red
Nos gonzesses
Our girls
Sous les nons pas beaux
Under the not-so-pretty names
En dgrafant ngligemment
Casually unbuttoning
Un bouton de leur chemise
A button from their shirt
Elles se retournent dans le miroir
They turn around in the mirror
Par-dessus leurs paules
Over their shoulders
Pas trs rassures pour voir
Not very reassured to see
Si par malheur ou par hasard
If by misfortune or by chance
Leur joli cul n'aurait pas disparu
Their pretty ass wouldn't have disappeared
Puis innocentes mais la tte haute
Then innocent but heads held high
Elles nous reviennent enfin
They finally come back to us
Parfumes comme pour un autre
Perfumed as if for someone else
Nos gonzesses
Our girls
Devant les lavabos
In front of the sinks
Est-c'qu'elles parlent de moi, de nous?
Do they talk about me, about us?
Est-c'qu'elles disent des gros mots?
Do they curse?
Nos gonzesses
Our girls
Sous les nons pas beaux
Under the ugly names
Font semblant de se laver les mains
Pretending to wash their hands
Qu'elles ont blanches comme du bon pain
They are as white as good bread
Un beau jour elles disparaissent
One fine day they disappear
Sans laisser d'adresse
Without leaving an address
A peine un petit mot
Barely a little note
Sur le miroir du lavabo
On the mirror of the sink
De leur rouge lvres souvent
Often in their lipstick
Elles crivent en lettres de sang
They write in letters of blood
Simplement "Adieu salaud" C'est vrai qu'il n'y a pas d'autres mots
Simply 'Goodbye bastard' It's true there are no other words
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Key vocabulary
- cachette
- hiding placeB1
- chemise
- shirtB1
- exil
- exileB1
- lavabo
- sinkB1
- mots
- wordsA1
- nez
- noseA1
- nons
- notA1
- petit
- smallA1
- peu
- fewA1
- puis
- thenA1
About this song
Renaud (Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan) is a French singer-songwriter. He is known for French-language chanson rooted in regional dialects and for topping French album and single charts across multiple decades, including award-winning releases such as “Boucan d’enfer” and “Toujours debout.”