Coin De Rue Lyrics in English by Benjamin Biolay, Nicolas Fiszman, Denis Benarrosh

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Coin De Rue by Benjamin Biolay from French to English.

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Je me souviens d'un coin de rue

I remember a street corner

Aujourd'hui disparu

Today gone

Mon enfance jouait par là

My childhood played there

Je me souviens de cela

I remember that

Il y avait un' palissade

There was a fence

Un taillis d'embuscades

A thicket for ambushes

Les voyous de mon quartier

The thugs from my neighborhood

Venaient s'y batailler

Used to fight there

À présent il y a un café

Now there's a café

Un comptoir tout neuf qui fait de l'effet

A brand new counter that makes an impression

Une fleuriste qui vend ses fleurs aux amants

A florist who sells her flowers to lovers

Et même aux enterrements

And even for funerals

Je revois mon coin de rue

I see my street corner again

Aujourd'hui disparu

Today gone

Je me souviens d'un triste soir

I remember a sad evening

Où le cœur sans espoir

Where my hopeless heart

Je pleurais en attendant

I cried while waiting

Un amour de quinze ans

A love from when I was fifteen

Un amour qui fut perdu

A love that was lost

Juste à ce coin de rue

Right on this street corner

Et depuis j'ai beaucoup voyagé

And since then I've traveled a lot

Trop souvent en pays étrangers

Too often in foreign lands

Mondes neufs constructions et démolitions

New worlds constructions and demolitions

Vous me donnez des visions

You give me visions

Je crois voir mon coin de rue

I think I see my street corner

Et soudain apparus

And suddenly appeared

Je revois ma palissade

I see my fence again

Mes copains mes glissades

My friends, my sliding games

Mes deux sous de muguet de printemps

My two cents' worth of spring lily of the valley

Mes quinze ans mes vingt ans

My fifteen years... my twenty years

Tout ce qui fut et qui n'est plus

All that was and is no more

Tout mon vieux coin de rue

All my old street corner

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palissade — fence

Palissade translates to "fence" or "stockade". While it might seem like a simple word, it evokes a very specific, nostalgic image in this song.

Benjamin Biolay uses it to paint a picture of his childhood, recalling a particular "coin de rue" (street corner) where a palissade stood. This fence wasn't just any fence; it was part of the landscape of his youth, a place for games and even "embuscades" (ambushes). It's a word that grounds the listener in the specific, somewhat rustic, memory of a bygone era, making it more evocative than a generic term for a barrier.

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Benjamin Biolay Coin De Rue Lyrics