Comme Un Voleur Lyrics in English Madame Monsieur , Jérémy Frerot

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Comme Un Voleur by Madame Monsieur from French to English.

Life, life, who's it, what's it

Tell me, what the f*ck are we doing here

As if by magic, magic, they've

Had it decided for us, that's how it is

Two arms, two legs, a brain that works

And that dies and dreams and hurts

Hands that break and that caress

A pair of breasts, a pair of buttocks

Life, life, I'm telling you, it's better

When it's dark and bright

When we don't write the rules of the game

We muddle through, we cheat a bit

In my view, it's better not to

Look for where we come from, where we're going

It'll be less lovely when we know

Then when we find out, what's left

I know nothing but I'm not scared

I watch the people who look elsewhere

I swipe the worst and the best from them

I make songs like a thief

Like a thief

Life, life, it's dumb sometimes

When for no reason, no blah-blah

It grabs those we love and leaves us here

With our questions on our hands

But where does it come from, those blows of fate

What's this stuff with death

Maybe we could come to an agreement

You're the one who stays and I'm the one who goes

Life, life, it's way too weird

It's the sketchiest of stories

Dreamed up by a kid who's playing

And who allows themself everything

In my view, you shouldn't fight

When you're not the one throwing the dice

It'd be less lovely if we knew

There'd be hardly anything left to dream

I know nothing but I'm not scared

I watch the people who look elsewhere

I swipe the worst and the best from them

I make songs like a thief

Like a thief

I know nothing but I'm not scared

I watch the people who look elsewhere

I swipe the worst and the best from them

I make songs like a thief

I sort the slaps still to come

I want the present, not the future

I fatten my rhyme and my melodies

I steal your desires, your trips and what connects you

I sort the slaps still to come

I want the present, not the future

I fatten my rhyme and my melodies

I steal your desires, your trips and what connects you

Outro

Like a thief

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SONG MEANING

"Comme Un Voleur" invites you into a playful, philosophical heist. Madame Monsieur and Jérémy Frérot look at life as a bizarre treasure chest that nobody asked for: it dazzles and bruises, offers hugs and heart-breaks, drops us onto the board without letting us write the rules. Instead of panicking about where we came from or where we are headed, the singers decide to steal whatever shines—good or bad—from the people around them and turn those stolen moments into music.

The result is a song that celebrates curiosity over certainty, the present over the future, and creativity over control. By admitting “I know nothing but I’m not afraid,” they encourage us to accept life’s contradictions—light and dark, joy and loss—as raw material for our own stories. Like nimble pickpockets of emotion, they remind us that the real art of living is to gather every feeling we cross paths with, slip it into our pocket, and keep dancing.

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