It's Time To Wake Up 2023 Lyrics in English by La Femme
Outre-Atlantique literally means "beyond the Atlantic." It's a more formal and evocative way to say "transatlantic" or "from across the Atlantic."
In the song, it appears in the line "Amour, amour outre-Atlantique," suggesting a love that spans continents or has origins from across the Atlantic. This phrase adds a touch of mystery and grandeur to the idea of love, making it stand out from more common expressions.
La Femme's 2023 rework of "It's Time To Wake Up" opens on a flat, almost sarcastic morning routine — "Brush you teeth, take your cup" — before sliding somewhere much stranger. By the first French verse the singer is naming an implant in her own body, "une puce électronique" [an electronic chip], and a "nouvelle guerre" [new war] that started without anyone's consent. The California name-drops and the countdown to "2023" stop sounding like a place and a date and start sounding like a deadline — waking up in the literal sense standing in for waking up to how much has quietly changed.
The back half drops the subtlety entirely: a chant of "Transgénital" repeated like a mantra, then the flat declaration "vous allez mourir" [you are all going to die], and a name-check of Mata Hari, the WWI spy executed for treason. It's a bilingual, psych-pop fever dream — a chirpy English hook wrapped around a French verse that's really about surveillance, control, and wanting to go home to somewhere that no longer exists.
