Les Voisines Lyrics in English by Renan Luce

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Les Voisines by Renan Luce from French to English.

J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

Dont les ombres chinoises ondulent sur les volets

Whose Chinese shadows ripple on the shutters

Je me suis inventé un amour pantomime

I invented a pantomime love

Où glissent en or et noir tes bas sur tes mollets

Where your gold and black stockings slide on your calves

De ma fenêtre en face

From my window across the street

J'caresse le plexiglas

I caress the plexiglass

J'maudis les techniciens

I curse the technicians

Dont les stores vénitiens

Whose Venetian blinds

Découpent en tranches

Cut into slices

La moindre pervenche

The slightest periwinkle

Déshabillée

Undressed

(J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines)

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

(J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines)

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

Qui sèchent leurs dentelles au vent sur les balcons

Who dry their lace in the wind on the balconies

C'est un peu toi qui danse quand danse la mousseline

It's a bit like you dancing when the muslin dances

Invité au grand bal de tes slips en coton

Invited to the grand ball of your cotton panties

De ma fenêtre en face

From my window across the street

J'caresse le plexiglas

I caress the plexiglass

Je maudis les méninges

I curse the minds

Inventeurs du sèche-linge

Inventors of the clothes dryer

Plus de lèche-vitrine

No more window shopping

A ces cache-poitrines

For these bra covers

Que tu séchais

That you used to dry

(J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines)

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

(J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines)

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

Qui vident leurs armoires en quête d'une décision

Who empty their wardrobes in search of a decision

Dans une heure environ, tu choisiras le jean

In about an hour, you'll choose the jeans

Tu l'enfil'ras bien sûr dans mon champ de vision

You'll put them on, of course, in my field of vision

De ma fenêtre en face

From my window across the street

J'caresse le plexiglas

I caress the plexiglass

Concurrence déloyale

Unfair competition

De ton chauffage central

From your central heating

Une buée dense

A dense mist

Interrompt ma transe

Interrupts my trance

Puis des épais rideaux

Then thick curtains

Et c'est la goutte d'eau

And that's the last straw

Un ravalement d'façade

A facade renovation

Me cache ta palissade

Hides your palisade from me

Une maison de retraite

A retirement home

Construite devant ma fenêtre

Built in front of my window

Sur un fil par centaines

On a line by hundreds

Sèchent d'immenses gaines

Immense girdles dry

J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

J'ai toujours préféré aux voisins les voisines

I've always preferred the female neighbors to the male ones

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pervenche — periwinkle

Pervenche literally translates to "periwinkle", referring to the flower. However, in French slang, it can also refer to a female police officer, often a traffic warden, due to the color of their old uniforms.

In the context of the song, the narrator is observing his female neighbors through their windows and is frustrated when blinds or curtains obscure his view. The line "La moindre pervenche Déshabillée" plays on this double meaning. It could innocently refer to a small periwinkle flower being uncovered, or more suggestively, to a woman (perhaps even a 'pervenche' in the slang sense) being undressed, adding a layer of playful innuendo to his voyeuristic observations.

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Renan Luce Les Voisines Lyrics