Beau Malheur Lyrics in English Emmanuel Moire

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Beau Malheur by Emmanuel Moire from French to English.

You tell me nothing passes

Even after a while

That one fine day it's a dead end

And beyond the ocean

That we always keep the trace

Of a love, of someone gone

That you resurface

Like yesterday straight ahead

You tell me nothing helps

Words or time

That it'll take a whole life

To one day pretend

To look back

Come back smiling

Keeping what must stay quiet

And then act like before

I can only tell you

That I needed fear to be reassured

That I knew pain before being comforted

That I needed tears to hide nothing anymore

That I'd known resentment long before being soothed

You don't yet know what I know by heart

What I know by heart

Beautiful sorrow beautiful sorrow beautiful sorrow

You tell me nothing erases

Neither chalk nor blood

That we learn after class

Or after we're thirty

We can say alas three times

That nobody hears it

Like nobody replaces

Those who leave for a long time

You tell me winter's coming

That we forget spring

That we empty the shelves

And fill them differently

That we remember the green eyes

The laughter every moment

That after all the voice gets lost

But the words are alive

I can only tell you

That I needed fear to be reassured

That I knew pain before being comforted

That I needed tears to hide nothing anymore

That I'd known resentment long before being soothed

You don't yet know what I know by heart

What I know by heart

You tell me it's a trap

A game for losers

That the boat's made of cork

And the armor's tin

That nothing protects you anymore

Or else not for long

That it's like a spell

To be alone now

I can only tell you

To be reassured

Before being comforted

To hide nothing anymore

Long before being calmed

I needed fear to be reassured

And I knew pain before being comforted

I needed tears to hide nothing anymore

And I'd known resentment long before being soothed

You don't yet know what I know by heart

What I know by heart

Beautiful sorrow beautiful sorrow beautiful sorrow

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Title: Beau Malheur – Emmanuel Moire

What if heartbreak could sparkle a little? In Beau Malheur (literally “Beautiful Misfortune”), French singer-songwriter Emmanuel Moire turns pain into poetry. The lyrics are a conversation with a friend who feels stuck in loss, convinced that time, words, or seasons will never ease the ache. Moire gently answers with his own journey: he needed fear before reassurance, tears before openness, and resentment before peace. Every stanza shows that wounds can become windows, revealing strength and tenderness we never knew we had.

Rather than denying sorrow, the song celebrates it as a crucial step toward healing. Memories stay vivid, shelves get emptied and refilled, winter replaces spring, yet “the words are alive.” Moire’s message is clear: suffering is real, but it is also the catalyst that teaches us resilience, empathy, and hope. Beau Malheur invites listeners to see beauty in the bruise – to trust that even the heaviest sadness can eventually sing.

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