La Complainte De La Butte Lyrics in English ZAZ
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song La Complainte De La Butte by ZAZ from French to English.
These English lyric translations are not yet verified.
En haut de la rue St-Vincent
At the top of St-Vincent Street
Un poète et une inconnue
A poet and an unknown woman
S'aimèrent l'espace d'un instant
Loved each other for a moment
Mais il ne l'a jamais revue
But he never saw her again
Cette chanson il composa
This song he composed
Espérant que son inconnue
Hoping that his stranger
Un matin d'printemps l'entendra
One spring morning will hear it
Quelque part au coin d'une rue
Somewhere on a street corner
La lune trop blême
The moon too pale
Pose un diadème
Put on a tiara
Sur tes cheveux roux
On your red hair
La lune trop rousse
The moon too red
De gloire éclabousse
Glory splashes
Ton jupon plein d'trous
Your petticoat full of holes
La lune trop pâle
The moon too pale
Caresse l'opale
Caress the opal
De tes yeux blasés
From your jaded eyes
Princesse de la rue
Street Princess
Soit la bienvenue
Be welcome
Dans mon cœur blessé
In my wounded heart
Les escaliers de la butte sont durs aux miséreux
The stairs of the hill are hard for the poor
Les ailes des moulins protègent les amoureux
The wings of the windmills protect lovers
Petite mendigote
Little beggar
Je sens ta menotte
I feel your handcuff
Qui cherche ma main
Who is looking for my hand
Je sens ta poitrine
I feel your chest
Et ta taille fine
And your thin waist
J'oublie mon chagrin
I forget my sorrow
Je sens sur tes lèvres
I smell on your lips
Une odeur de fièvre
A smell of fever
De gosse mal nourri
Malnourished kid
Et sous ta caresse
And under your caress
Je sens une ivresse
I feel drunk
Qui m'anéantit
Who destroys me
Les escaliers de la butte sont durs aux miséreux
The stairs of the hill are hard for the poor
Les ailes des moulins protègent les amoureux
The wings of the windmills protect lovers
Mais voilà qu'il flotte
But now it floats
La lune se trotte
The moon is moving
La princesse aussi
The princess too
Sous le ciel sans lune
Under the moonless sky
Je pleure à la brune
I cry at the brunette
Mon rêve évanoui
My vanished dream
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