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Look at me smile

Like a rose in the wind

Float my delirium

Under the burning desire

To be alive and queen

In my innocent world

Of these rains of light

That melt on my field

Look at me die

To the love that reaches out to me

Its arms and its sighs

That warm my blood

The moss under my feet

Like a silk carpet

A base for my bed

Sometimes abandon myself

Look at me suffer

When I no longer love myself

That I'm afraid to be seen

And to be laid bare

When I am vulnerable

And no one hears

The greatness of the horror

That rumbles and misleads

Look at this great void

This unknown so tender

That I would like to succumb

And expect nothing more

A silence that scares

That can no longer surprise

Because I know a thousand times

The taste of its ashes

Love slung over the shoulder

Like a stolen gift

I would like to be a mother

To better console myself

To give myself the welcome

The listening and the reprieve

Give myself the softness

Give myself respite

How to give oneself

This love we expect

That is never enough

And that we don't know how to take

That even if we catch

Our heart smiling sometimes

We close it so quickly

For fear of drowning

And then one evening, one day

We dare to accept it

This pearl, this sesame

That we had well hidden

In the hollow of our forgetfulness

At the edge of the pier

Contemplating the russet sky

Of erased dreams

It's hunger that arises

Like a rage in the belly

The elusive ardor

That screams and haunts us

Like an old ghost

Tired of not being recognized

To be listened to without fear

To be able to be read

Look at me fight

Against nothing, against everything

Prisoner of my cage

That I built piece by piece

Telling my story

So as not to forget it

It serves me today

The throat

My freedom

I'm done, enough

Enough of being a victim

Of a senseless fear

That would sing its anthem

That I carry within me

Like a floating flag

By the breeze of the ancients

In the tree of nothingness

I finish the story

I let the wind go

I give it back hope

And the breath of yesteryear

I return to the earth

These erroneous beliefs

That I was well taught

And that are unfounded

If I want to live this world

My life my way

I accept to live my law

Align my soul with my reason

I let go

I dare to live myself

I let go

And I dare to live

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Isabelle Geffroy

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SONG MEANING

Ma Valse sweeps us into a whirling journey of self-discovery. ZAZ begins in a dreamlike garden where she is “queen” of her own innocence, feeling the thrill of life bloom like a rose dancing in the wind. Very quickly, though, the music tilts from euphoria to doubt: love beckons, vulnerabilities surface, and an invisible cage of fear tightens around her. Each verse feels like another turn of the waltz — one moment she delights in silky moss beneath her feet, the next she crashes into the “grand vacío” of loneliness, choking on memories and expectations that never seem to fit.

Yet the song is ultimately an anthem of release. Tired of playing the eternal victim, the singer decides to drop her inherited beliefs and rewrite her own rules. She hands her pain back to the earth, accepts the raw hunger to be seen, and declares: “Je lâche prise, j’ose vivre” — I let go, I dare to live. “Ma Valse” invites us to spin with her through light and shadow, then step off the dance-floor lighter, freer, and ready to claim our own rhythm.

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