Famille Lyrics in English Ben Mazué

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Family, I love you so much

For you I've got deep feelings

The truest

The most obvious in the world

But family

You tie me in knots

Secrets

Stings and bruises

Regrets

That flood me

Family, I cherish you

I see you, at last I live again

I stayed in this country

For you

But family you still see me

As the child

I was back then

Yet I've made

Efforts on myself

And I swear to you

It's true I've changed

Even though it's true I've changed

Nobody knows me

Like you know me

We're made of the same memories

We're made of the same traumas

Family, I see myself again

Curled up in the crook of your arms

Where nothing will ever happen

That's bad

But family sometimes I understand

In a deafening silence

A truth that makes the table waltz

Family, I join you

Even if I'm often far away

Whenever I leave

I come back to you

But family sometimes you push me away

I don't always have

The right cards

To understand your choices

With time you've changed

You've gotten hurt, you've changed

But nobody knows you

Like I know you

We're made of the same memories

We're made of the same traumas

All that's left of my childhood

What's left of my childhood

Is you

Between softness and violence

Between happiness and suffering

Is you

Sometimes certain events

Make us let go of it

For a while

Outro

But

Just for a while

In almost

All my memories

In almost all

My theories

Since the first day

I breathe

From my pains

To my highs

Family, I left you

It's normal

That's how we do it

We grow up, we leave the nest

Then we build a new nest

But not a day goes by

Not a day

Without me remembering

The love

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SONG MEANING

“Famille” is Ben Mazué’s heartfelt love letter to the people who shaped him. Over a gentle groove, the French songwriter balances tender gratitude with raw honesty: he praises his relatives for giving him the “most obvious love in the world,” yet admits they also tie him in knots of secrets, regrets, and old wounds. Listeners are invited into the living room of his memories where hugs, stinging remarks, laughter, and bruises all live side by side.

The song’s core message is that family is a paradox – a place of comfort and collision, sweetness and struggle. Mazué recalls being the protected child in their arms, then fast-forwards to adulthood where he still battles to prove he has changed. No matter how far he roams, the same shared memories and traumas pull him back, reminding him that everything left of his childhood is them. “Famille” ultimately celebrates that complicated bond: we leave the nest, build our own, yet every single day the echo of that first love keeps beating in our chest.

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