Comment Est Ta Peine ? Lyrics in English Benjamin Biolay

“Comment Est Ta Peine ?” is Benjamin Biolay’s poetic check-in on a love that has slipped away. The singer pictures a deceptively sunny autumn morning, a day that looks like summer but feels empty because his partner is gone. By repeatedly asking “Comment est ta peine ?” (“How is your pain?”), he turns heartbreak into a quiet conversation, comparing wounds instead of hiding them. The phone becomes a dramatic prop—first dropped in shock, then gently placed on the table—as Biolay realizes the relationship’s final toll. He flirts with hopeless thoughts, counts his emotional “carbon footprint,” and confesses that sorrow “comes and goes” like waves.

Far from self-pity, the chorus suggests a survival strategy: “Il faudrait qu’on apprenne à vivre avec ça” (“We should learn to live with it”). Pain is cyclical, but accepting it keeps both lovers from “touching the bottom.” In just a few verses, Biolay blends existential musing, dark humor, and everyday images to show that breakups are rarely clean. Instead, grief becomes a companion you chat with, measure, and eventually learn to carry—one heartbeat at a time.