DĂ©ferlante refers to a 'surging' or 'breaking wave'. It's a vivid and somewhat poetic word that isn't used in everyday conversation, making it stand out.
In the song, the lyrics describe the beloved as a "déferlante du large" (a surging wave from the open sea), creating a powerful image of an overwhelming and irresistible force. This word beautifully captures the intensity and emotional depth of the song's theme.
"Far away" turns falling for someone into a drowning scene. The singer compares her lover to a wave, an ocean, a flood that swallows her whole - "you're like a wave, immensely there." Love arrives with the force of the sea, and there's no fighting it.
That water imagery keeps building. She's lost at the bottom near the coral and the fish, out of her mind, caught in chaos on the beach. The repeated "far away, far away" works two ways at once: he pulls her far from herself, and she wishes she could get far away from the pain he causes.
By the bridge, the tone turns bitterly funny. "J'ai bu la tasse" - literally "I drank the cup" - is how French speakers describe swallowing water while swimming, and here it becomes a stand-in for getting completely played. She calls herself the heroine of a story so sad it's almost funny, drowned under kisses she saw coming and let happen anyway.