Ma Valse Lyrics in English by ZAZ

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Ma Valse by ZAZ from French to English.
Regardez-moi sourire
Watch me smile
Comme une rose au vent
Like a rose in the wind
Flotter mon délire
My delirium floats
Sous le désir ardent
Under burning desire
Être vivante et reine
Being alive and queen
Dans mon monde innocent
In my innocent world
De ces pluies de lumière
From those rains of light
Qui fondent sur mon champ
That melt onto my field
Regardez-moi mourir
Watch me die
À l'amour qui me tend
To the love reaching for me
Ses bras et ses soupirs
Its arms and its sighs
Qui me chauffe le sang
That heat up my blood
La mousse sous mes pieds
The moss under my feet
Comme un tapis de soie
Like a silk carpet
Un socle pour mon lit
A base for my bed
M'abandonner parfois
To let myself go sometimes
Regardez-moi souffrir
Watch me suffer
Quand je ne m'aime plus
When I don't love myself anymore
Que j'ai peur d'être vue
When I'm scared of being seen
Et d'être mise à nue
And of being stripped bare
Quand je suis vulnérable
When I'm vulnerable
Et que personne n'entend
And nobody hears
La grandeur de l'horreur
The greatness of the horror
Qui gronde et qui méprend
That rumbles and misleads
Regardez ce grand vide
Look at this huge void
Cet inconnu si tendre
This tender unknown
Que j'aimerais succomber
That I'd like to give in to
Et ne plus rien attendre
And wait for nothing else
Un silence qui fait peur
A silence that scares
Qui ne peut plus surprendre
That can't surprise anymore
Car je connais mille fois
Cause I've known a thousand times
La saveur de ses cendres
The taste of its ashes
L'amour en bandoulière
Love slung over the shoulder
Comme un cadeau volé
Like a stolen gift
Je voudrais être mère
I'd like to be a mother
Pour mieux me consoler
To better comfort myself
Pour me donner l'accueil
To give myself welcome
L'écoute et le sursis
Listening and reprieve
Me donner la douceur
To give myself sweetness
Me donner du répit
To give myself some respite
Comment donner à soi
How to give oneself
Cet amour qu'on attend
That love we're waiting for
Qui n'est jamais assez
That's never enough
Et qu'on ne sait pas prendre
And we don't know how to take
Que même si l'on surprend
That even if we catch it
Son coeur sourire parfois
Our heart smiling sometimes
On le referme si vite
We close it again so fast
De peur que l'on se noie
Afraid we might drown
Et puis un soir, un jour
And then one night, one day
On ose l'accepter
We dare to accept it
Cette perle, ce sésame
This pearl, this sesame
Qu'on avait bien caché
That we'd hidden so well
Au creux de notre oubli
In the hollow of our forgetfulness
Au bord de la jetée
On the edge of the pier
Contemplant le ciel roux
Gazing at the russet sky
Des rêves effacés
Of erased dreams
C'est la faim qui surgit
Hunger bursts forth
Comme une rage au ventre
Like a rage in the belly
L'ardeur insaisissable
The elusive ardor
Qui crie et qui nous hante
That screams and haunts us
Comme un vieux fantôme
Like an old ghost
Las de n'être reconnu
Tired of not being recognized
Être écoutée sans crainte
To be listened to without fear
Pour pouvoir être lue
So it can be read
Regardez-moi me battre
Watch me fight
Contre rien, contre tout
Against nothing, against everything
Prisonnière de ma cage
Prisoner of my cage
Que j'ai construite par bout
That I've built bit by bit
Racontant mon histoire
Telling my story
Pour ne pas l'oublier
So I won't forget it
Elle me sert aujourd'hui
It grips me today
La gorge
My throat
Ma liberté
My freedom
J'en ai fini, assez
I'm done, enough
Assez d'être victime
Enough of being a victim
D'une peur insensée
Of a senseless fear
Qui chanterait son hymne
That would sing its anthem
Que je porte en moi
That I carry inside me
Comme un drapeau flottant
Like a flying flag
Par la brise des anciens
In the breeze of the elders
Dans l'arbre du néant
In the tree of nothingness
Je termine l'histoire
I end the story
Je laisse aller le vent
I let the wind go
Je lui redonne l'espoir
I give it back hope
Et le souffle d'antan
And the breath of bygone days
Je remets à la terre
I return to the earth
Ces croyances erronées
Those mistaken beliefs
Que l'on m'a bien apprises
That I was well taught
Et qui sont mal fondées
And that are poorly founded
Si je veux vivre ce monde
If I want to live this world
Ma vie à ma façon
My life my own way
J'accepte de vivre ma loi
I accept to live my law
Allier mon âme à ma raison
To unite my soul with my reason
Je lâche prise
I let go
J'ose me vivre
I dare to live myself
Je lâche prise
I let go
Et j'ose vivre
And I dare to live
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Isabelle Geffroy
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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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