La Pluie Lyrics in English Zaz

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song La Pluie by Zaz from French to English.
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The sky's gray
Rain shows up
By surprise
It's here with us
And like a rite
That bogs us down
Umbrellas
Open in rhythm
Like a dance
Drops fall in abundance
On sweet France
Fall
Fall
Rain falls
On this Sunday
In December
In the shade of umbrellas
Passersby hurry, hurry
Without waiting
We sometimes love it
It raises its voice
It shoves us
It stops giving news
In a heatwave
Then it comes back like a need
Out of affection
And it sings us its great song
The flood
Fall
Fall
Rain falls
On this Sunday
In December
In the shade of umbrellas
Passersby hurry, hurry
Without waiting
Fall
Fall
Rain falls
On this Sunday
In December
In the shade of umbrellas
Passersby hurry, hurry
Without waiting
And falls
And falls
And falls
Fall
And falls
And falls
And falls
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SONG MEANING

“La Pluie” paints a cinematic snapshot of a gray Sunday in December, where rain drapes itself over France like an uninvited yet familiar guest. Zaz watches umbrellas burst open in perfect rhythm, transforming the streets into a choreographed ballet of hurried passers-by. The falling drops become the song’s percussion, tapping out life’s steady beat while people scurry sans attendre (without waiting). The lyrics celebrate this moody weather as both nuisance and necessity: rain can shout, shove, vanish in a heatwave, then return like an old friend who knows we secretly missed them.

By repeating Tombe, tombe, tombe la pluie (“Fall, fall, fall the rain”), Zaz highlights our love-hate relationship with nature’s downpours. The water that once floods and inconveniences also refreshes, cleanses, and reconnects us to the rhythm of the earth. In the end, the rain’s “grande chanson” reminds us that even the gloomiest skies can spark beauty, movement, and a shared human moment under the shelter of bright, fluttering umbrellas.

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