On Dit Qu’on Ne Pleure Pas Dans L’eau Lyrics in English Gaëtan Roussel , Matthieu Chedid

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song On Dit Qu’on Ne Pleure Pas Dans L’eau by Gaëtan Roussel from French to English.
If we say we're not really from here
What's yours, what's your country
If we say we haven't succeeded at everything
Where's yours, where's your here
Maybe it's a shooting star
A scrap of fabric, a tent
Maybe it's a villa on the slopes
A bit of roof, a wait
If we say we've got it all but not the desire
What's yours, what's your opinion
Where's yours, where's your badge
What's yours, what soothes you
Maybe it's honey that calms you
Or maybe the sky, the cliffs
Or by the sea in Milos
They say you don't cry in water
They say you don't cry in water
In the afterlife way up there
They say you don't cry in water
In indigo clouds
They say you don't cry in water
In the afterlife way up there
They say you don't cry in water
In indigo clouds
You don't cry in water
In the afterlife way up there
Then we say everything will work out
Without thinking about tomorrow
That we'll slide over the summits
Today that's certain
We tell ourselves we're climbing up, we're going down
Yesterday isn't the instinct
Look, we resist, we start again
Deep down we don't know a thing
And in which look will you read
On what unknown look
That the trips to come, unforeseen
Are pages to read, unread
They say you don't cry in water
In the afterlife way up there
They say you don't cry in water
In indigo clouds
They say you don't cry in water
In the afterlife way up there
They say you don't cry in water
The desert keeps us company
The sea separates us, unites us
The sky reminds us every night
That the game is played together
They say you don't cry in water
They say you don't cry in water
They say you don't cry in water
In the afterlife way up there
They say you don't cry in water
In the afterlife way up there
They say you don't cry in water
What remains of this chaos
In the afterlife way up there
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SONG MEANING

On Dit Qu’on Ne Pleure Pas Dans L’eau is a dreamy, sea-sprayed conversation about belonging. Gaëtan Roussel and guest vocalist Matthieu Chedid ping-pong questions that we have all asked ourselves: Where is my real home? What truly calms me down? From shooting stars and makeshift tents to cliff-top villas and the Greek island of Milos, every image suggests that “home” is less a place than a feeling we carry while drifting through life.

The hypnotic refrain “on dit qu’on ne pleure pas dans l’eau” (people say you cannot cry in water) hints at a clever escape: if your tears dissolve into the sea, no one can see your sadness. Yet the song stays hopeful. The desert keeps us company, the sky reminds us nightly that we are in this together, and the waves both separate and unite us. It is an invitation to let your worries float, trust the next unknown journey, and remember that even in chaos we remain connected by the same water, the same sky, and the same whispered promise of tomorrow.

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