Tristesse Lyrics in English Zaho de Sagazan

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Tristesse by Zaho de Sagazan from French to English.

Who goes there, sadness

You won't have me tonight

I have finally found wisdom

And now full powers

What audacity to make me believe

That I am just a poor puppet

Manipulated by your hands

Disgusting with despair

Puppeteer I am

And certainly not the other way around

Emotions are colors

I am the painter who overturns them

And certainly not the other way around

Who goes there, sadness

You won't have me tonight

I have finally found wisdom

And now full powers

What audacity to make me believe

That I am just a poor puppet

Manipulated by your hands

Dripping with despair

Puppeteer I am

And certainly not the other way around

Emotions are colors

I am the painter who overturns them

Puppeteer I am

And certainly not the other way around

Who goes there

That-that, that's not me

But who goes there

But-but-but-but-but

Who goes there

Sadness, get out of here

Puppeteer I am

And certainly not the other way around

Total control of feelings

Sadness hates me

Puppeteer I am

And certainly not the other way around

Except for my creative impulses

I control everything else

I control, I control

I control everything else

I control, I control

I control everything else

To tell you everything

Sometimes it happens that

She comes and

No matter what I do, what I say

To make her leave

She, she stays there

And in the end

I even wonder

If she wouldn't be there

A little all the time

Sadness is there and

Sadness

Puppet we are born and remain

Puppet we are and hate

Puppet we are born and remain

Puppet we are

I hate

I hate you

I hate

Yes, I hate

I hate you

I hate

I hate you

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SONG MEANING

Tristesse is Zaho de Sagazan’s defiant face-off with sadness itself. Over throbbing electro-pop beats, she personifies tristesse as an unwelcome intruder at her door, then boldly proclaims, “Vous ne m'aurez pas ce soir” – you will not have me tonight. Instead of being a mere puppet on despair’s strings, she flips the script and calls herself the puppeteer, the painter, the one who wields every emotional color on her own canvas.

Yet beneath that bravado hides a deeper truth. As the song unfolds, cracks appear in her armor: despite her repeated chants of “Je contrôle tout le reste,” sadness lingers, sometimes quietly, sometimes overwhelmingly. The result is a powerful portrait of our love-hate relationship with melancholy – a reminder that true mastery of our feelings lies not in banishing them forever, but in learning to dance with them and still create something beautiful.

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Zaho de Sagazan Tristesse Lyrics