L'amour D'un Garçon Lyrics in English by MPL

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song L'amour D'un Garçon by MPL from French to English.

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Yeah, MPL

Lucette, TMTC

Okay, listen to this

We must surely be able to sing happy when things are not going well

We must surely be able to walk straight

Living is wasting time, so we hang out late

Free time stifled by evening fatigue

This time we hold on to it, its shortage awaits us

A sunset comes to play spoilsport

Sad days when nothing is created, everything is transformed

We dream of cornering bulls by the horns

We quickly forget that we learn from our drunkenness

We pick up one by one the memories we leave behind

Without leaving too many traces, we write a story

We live far from the past, we work on memory

We are everywhere at once but the earth is big

Impossible split that pulls between the legs

We collect our addictions, we chase satiety

We draw with the left hand so as not to get bored

A girl has a heart full of songs

Which bloom again in all seasons

For the love of a boy

We say we'll remember and see you soon

To run after a ball, or start from scratch

We don't go out of our circles too much, the others stay at home

Young people already scare us so we make fun of old people

We're not really ready to die for ideas anymore

We smoked the hatchet, buried the pipe

All the enemies are far away, so we rest

It's in times of peace that everything breaks down

We want to discover the world but falter at the first step

And how the path seems shorter the second time

We remain on familiar ground, in partial freedom

All the drops of the ocean will not see the sky

We weren't really taught to take the lead

We shoot in the air to make ourselves heard by the older ones

We queue at the counter like everyone else

And we wait for our time for a few seconds

A girl has a heart full of songs

Which bloom again in all seasons

For the love of a boy

When was the last time we talked to a stranger?

We have built barriers that we no longer cross

We're looking for the one who will cry on the platform

We follow beautiful streets, a few streets before going back

There is no shortage of opportunities but we let them pass

We only play the game when we are sure of winning

We make ourselves beautiful during the day while waiting for the big evening

And we go dancing when we don't know where to sit

We are afraid of ending up cast in concrete

So we play hide and seek with our illusions

We're looking for the girl, we're making up stories

On the cobblestones, each heel disrupts our trajectories

We dig the earth, we are gold prospectors

We tell ourselves it's worth it, so we dig deeper

Finally, the fatal blow is delivered in the back

We will love for real, after all by default

A girl has a heart full of songs

Which bloom again in all seasons

For the love of a boy

A girl has a heart full of songs

Which bloom again in all seasons

For the love of a boy

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trouble-fête — killjoy / party pooper

Trouble-fête literally translates to "trouble-party" but is an idiomatic expression meaning "killjoy" or "party pooper." It's a fun and somewhat whimsical compound word that isn't encountered in every song.

In the lyrics, it's used poetically: "Un coucher de soleil vient jouer les trouble-fête" (A sunset comes to play the killjoy). This personifies the sunset as something that interrupts or spoils the mood, adding a touch of unexpected imagery to the song.

Have you ever felt like you're just going through the motions, caught between wanting more and being too tired to chase it? MPL's "L'amour D'un Garçon" perfectly describes that feeling. It's about the everyday struggles of modern life, where "Vivre c'est perdre du temps, alors on se traîne tard" [To live is to waste time, so we drag ourselves late]. We're all trying to find our way, even when "Des jours tristes où rien ne se crée, tout se transforme" [Sad days where nothing is created, everything transforms].

But even with all that, there's a glimmer of hope and a touch of romance. The song keeps coming back to the idea that "Une fille, ça a le cœur tout rempli de chansons / Qui refleurissent à toutes les saisons / Pour l'amour d'un garçon" [A girl, her heart is full of songs / That re-blossom in all seasons / For the love of a boy]. It's a sweet reminder that despite the daily grind and our fears of taking risks, love and connection are still what we're searching for, even if we're just "joue à cache-cache avec nos illusions" [playing hide-and-seek with our illusions].

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