Qu'est Qu'on Y Peut ? Lyrics in English Pierre Lapointe , Clara Luciani

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Qu'est Qu'on Y Peut ? by Pierre Lapointe from French to English.

Stay there, don't move

While beauty freezes

Time to calm the dizziness

that our bodies inflict on us

In the room's damp heat

In the silence of abandonment

Trying to convince ourselves

that it wasn't that good

When two bodies meet

make their confessions

Whether we're for or against it

Deep down, what can we do about it

We'll stay still

Docile like those marble statues

dustless, naked and fragile

nobody looks at

Whether love lasts a lifetime

or dies at the end of the night

Tonight you'll be my treasure

the extension of my body

When two bodies meet

make their confessions

Whether we're for or against it

Deep down, what can we do about it

Whether you stay or you leave

Whether it's grand or mundane

Who cares if our two lives derail

When my body's against yours

I forget that one day we'll hurt

I don't give a d*mn about yesterday or tomorrow

When two bodies meet

make their confessions

Whether we're for or against it

Deep down, what can we do about it

When two bodies part

they say their goodbyes

Whether we're for or against it

Deep down, what can we do about it

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SONG MEANING

Pierre Lapointe teams up with French songstress Clara Luciani to paint a humid, candle-lit scene where two lovers freeze time itself. Qu'est-ce qu'on y peut ? (literally, “What can we do about it?”) opens with a plea to “stay still,” inviting us into a bedroom where vertigo, desire, and silence swirl together. The duet lingers on the raw electricity of bodies confessing to each other, questioning whether it even matters if passion is right or wrong—because, in that instant, resisting feels impossible.

By comparing the couple to marble statues, the song underlines both the beauty and fragility of a love that might vanish by dawn. The lyrics accept that tomorrow could hurt and yesterday is irrelevant; what counts is the fleeting embrace happening now. Lapointe and Luciani remind us that whether love lasts a lifetime or just one night, its pull is primal. We can debate, fear, or rationalize all we want, but when two bodies—and hearts—meet or part, au fond, qu’est-ce qu’on y peut… what can we really do?

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Pierre Lapointe Qu'est Qu'on Y Peut ? Lyrics