Ados Lyrics in English Joseph Kamel

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Intro
We were teens
We were maybe too dumb
Intro
To find the words
We only had love on our minds
And I said things
Intro
That I now regret
I wouldn't say them to others
Intro
But you were the first
We were teens
We were maybe too dumb
Intro
To find the words
We only had love on our minds
And I said things
Intro
That I now regret
I wouldn't say them to others
Intro
But you were the first
I scribbled in my room
My first rhymes for you
Packed with feelings
And movie lines
It wasn't really
Very pretty or poetic
But I'd sing them softly
While calling you on your landline
We were teens
We were maybe too dumb
To find the words
We only had love on our minds
And I said things
That I now regret
I wouldn't say them to others
But you were the first
We were teens
We were maybe too dumb
To find the words
We only had love on our minds
And I said things
That I now regret
I wouldn't say them to others
But you were the first
We didn't take the time
To let ourselves grow up
I was scared of being a pain
You were scared of other girls
And when you're 15
We say it's for life
It's 'cause we don't really know
What life means
I think about it tonight
And I think
We were teens
We were maybe too dumb
To find the words
We only had love on our minds
And I said things
That I now regret
I wouldn't say them to others
But you were the first
We were teens
We were maybe too dumb
To find the words
We only had love on our minds
And I said things
That I now regret
I wouldn't say them to others
But you were the first
But you were the first
Yeah you were the first
Outro
We were teens
We were maybe too dumb
Outro
To find the words
We only had love on our minds
And I said things
Outro
That I now regret
I wouldn't say them to others
Outro
But you were the first
We were teens
We were maybe too dumb
Outro
To find the words
We only had love on our minds
And I said things
Outro
That I now regret
I wouldn't say them to others
Outro
But you were the first
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SONG MEANING

Ados (which means teenagers in French) is Joseph Kamel’s nostalgic postcard to his very first love. He looks back on those clumsy high-school days when vocabulary was small but feelings were huge, and every late-night phone call felt like eternity. The chorus keeps circling back to that memory: “We were teens, maybe too silly to find the right words, we only had love on our minds.” By repeating the lines, the singer captures how young hearts replay the same thoughts over and over, trying to make sense of emotions that outrun their maturity.

In vivid snapshots he remembers scribbling his first rhymes in his bedroom, stuffing them with movie quotes, then whisper-singing them through a landline. There is sweetness, but also regret. He admits he said things he would never repeat to anyone else, because she was the very first. As the song unfolds, we feel the bittersweet truth: at fifteen you promise “forever” without knowing what life really means. Kamel’s track is a gentle reminder that our earliest romances, however awkward, shape the way we love and learn. It is both a confession and a celebration of youthful innocence that listeners of any age can smile at, nodding, “Yes, I was there too.”

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