Saule pleureur translates to "weeping willow". It's a beautiful and evocative phrase that conjures a specific, somewhat melancholic image, making it more interesting than common tree names.
In the song, the weeping willow serves as a recurring, symbolic location where the characters find solace and connection, even in the face of death. It's a place of refuge and rebirth, where their bodies will "fleuriront en larmes" (blossom in tears), adding a poetic and slightly mystical layer to the lyrics.
Pomme wrote this song as a quiet conversation with someone afraid to die. Instead of offering comfort with easy words, she imagines death not as an ending to fight but as a shared journey — something to face together rather than alone.
The song pictures the two of them slipping under the ocean, sheltering beneath a weeping willow, their bodies blooming into tears and flowers instead of simply disappearing. It is a gentle, almost fairy-tale way of saying: even death cannot separate two people who truly belong to each other.
The middle verses go further back in time, suggesting the two souls already knew each other thousands of years ago, in a language now lost. That idea reframes death less as an end and more as a return, to each other, and to something older than either of them.
The closing image, of two wild children found living in a tree, reads like an old legend folded into the song. It leaves the story open, hinting that what looks like loss from the outside might just be two people finally free.