Beau Lyrics in English Julien Doré , Joseph Kamel

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Beau by Julien Doré from French to English.
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Sitting on the sidewalk, the evening isn't pretty
It's surely too late for her to take my call
I'll leave a message to get some news
She'll listen to it softly and keep it to herself
Tonight I'm in my life, she's so far away
Her eyes glued to him and her skin under his hands
Sitting on the sidewalk, it's not the same at all anymore
Tonight, I envy the one who'll watch her wake up
If you knew how beautiful it is
If you saw how beautiful it is
I saw her reflection in the water
If you knew how beautiful it is
Sitting across from me, she hardly looks at me
Something in her voice sounds like a bleeding heart
She gets that message that suddenly makes her beautiful
The light from the screen, the smile it reveals
Tonight she's thinking of him, she says she can't help it
I'm fighting a memory while holding her hand
Sitting across from me, it's not the same at all anymore
Tonight, I envy the one she misses when she wakes up
If you knew how beautiful it is
If you saw how beautiful it is
I saw her reflection in the water
If you knew how beautiful it is
She left her heart between us
Between us and the rest
She left her heart on its knees
On the floor, promises
She left her heart between us
She leaves us the worst and the rest she doesn't give a d*mn
If you knew how beautiful it is
If you knew how beautiful it is
If you saw how beautiful it is
Outro
If you saw how beautiful it is
I saw her reflection in the water
Outro
If you knew how beautiful it is
If you knew how beautiful it is
If you saw how beautiful it is
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SONG MEANING

Beau paints a midnight movie where two strangers sit on opposite sides of the same heartache. Julien Doré tells the story of a man slumped on a sidewalk, phone in hand, whispering a voicemail he knows she will hear but never answer. Across town, Joseph Kamel slips into the voice of a woman staring blankly at her coffee, because the buzz of someone else’s message just lit up her face. Both narrators are spectators of love they no longer own: he envies the man who will wake up beside her, she longs for the boy who isn’t there. The repeated chorus, “Si tu savais comme c’est beau” (“If you only knew how beautiful it is”), turns the knife—beauty here is the shimmering illusion of what might have been.

Under the gentle pop-folk melody, the lyrics explore that curious space where jealousy, nostalgia, and admiration blend. Their parallel monologues reveal how easy it is to romanticize the love that belongs to someone else, mistaking distance for perfection. By the end, the shared refrain becomes a sigh: the heart has knelt, promises have spilled, and what’s left for each of them is the aching spectacle of beauty they can observe but never touch.

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