En Silence Lyrics in English by Roméo Elvis, Témé Tan
Avalanche translates directly to "avalanche" in English. While it's a recognizable word, its use in this song is particularly striking and metaphorical.
Roméo Elvis uses it to question the sudden and overwhelming nature of a friend's death, asking, "T'es vraiment parti dans une avalanche?" (Did you really leave in an avalanche?). It evokes a sense of being swept away unexpectedly and powerfully, making it a memorable and poignant choice in the context of loss.
"En Silence" is Roméo Elvis working through grief. He looks back at being seventeen, taking the kind of risks teenagers take together, until one of those risks cost his friend Simon his life. He can't shake the images: blood, a friendship reduced to silence.
He admits he was scared to even write this song, worried it would hurt the friends who were there. He still thinks about Simon most weeks, and some of those thoughts aren't rational. Melancholy keeps winning and it costs him sleep.
The chorus returns again and again to the same moment: late in the evening, in silence, watching death take Simon on a spring night in his own city. It happened suddenly, and it changed him.
He also carries the loss of another friend, Constantin, who died in an avalanche, and remembers a third friend's funeral, someone whose charm and connections he still misses. He doesn't believe in fate, but he says these losses taught him real principles about how to live.
