Regarder La Lumière Lyrics in English by Benjamin Biolay
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Regarder La Lumière by Benjamin Biolay from French to English.
Les lumières de la ville me ramènent aux années de sang
The city lights take me back to the years of blood
Le lierre écarlate et les murs blancs
The scarlet ivy and the white walls
L'indifférence des passants
The indifference of passers-by
Les lumières de la ville me ramènent aux années perdues
The city lights take me back to the lost years
J'n'étais assis guère que sur mon cul
I was just sitting on my a**
Ces souvenirs là j'les ai tous vus
I saw all those memories
Mauvaises rencontres
Bad encounters
Moyenne personne
Average person
Guère plus personne quand les lumières s'éteignent
Barely anyone left when the lights go out
Où vont elles?
Where do they go?
Les lumières de la ville me ramènent au siècle d'avant
The city lights take me back to the century before
3 place Métiviers Ménilmontant
3 Métiviers Square Ménilmontant
Et la pluie sur ton T-shirt blanc
And the rain on your white T-shirt
Les lumières de la ville me ramènent aux premières amours
The city lights take me back to first loves
Hôtel sans papier au petit jour
Hotel without papers at dawn
Finir dans l'escalier d'secours
Ending up in the fire escape
Mauvaises rencontres
Bad encounters
Moyenne personne
Average person
Guère plus personne quand les lumières s'éteignent
Barely anyone left when the lights go out
Où vont elles?
Where do they go?
Les lumières de la ville, étoiles de mes années d'efforts
The city lights, stars of my years of effort
Qu'aimeraient pas que j'sois triste pour rien
Who wouldn't want me to be sad for no reason
Qu'aimeraient que j'me fasse du bien
Who would want me to do myself good
Les lumières de la ville
The city lights
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guère — hardly, scarcely
Guère is a somewhat formal and less common adverb in French, meaning "hardly" or "scarcely." It's often used with a negative construction, like ne... guère.
In the song, Benjamin Biolay sings, "J'n'étais assis guère que sur mon cul," which translates to "I was hardly sitting on anything but my ass." This phrase is a bit colloquial and implies a sense of idleness or lack of purpose during his lost years, making guère an interesting and nuanced choice that adds a touch of poetic resignation to the lyrics.
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