LITERAL TRANSLATION
*** UNOFFICIAL ***
There it isConverse [runners / sneakers] laced
Hair released, set free
One has arrived
Inside
Ah how beautiful [to be?]
In the gossip, rumours
Under the cupola [dome]
It's better yet [than being?]
Once more outside
The weather's [~sky]'s so blue
It's so noisy
We're so small
(I'm hungry, my God, I'm hungry)
Grand Central
Grand Central
Everyone's coming down [disembarking]
2 arrows [spires? towers?]
Surly, bad-tempered fires
The double-breasted coat
The square shoulders [posture]
Of the veteran
The police officers
Their Adam's apples
It's springtime
These towers of steel
Forty-second street [Broadway]
1000th avenue
The Salvation Army
There's no horizon
(It's like something from science-fiction)
Grand Central
Grand Central
No-one waits for her, but...
Na na na la-na na la-na ....
She was waiting for a limousine under the canopy of Tiffany's
One would've said she's the President's girl, a real nuisance
Under the edges of her wide-brimmed hat sizzled a Lucky
She asks me who I know on the East Coast
Between the blue [sea?] & her [his] blond eyes the sun chose
Edie, Edie, flawed girl, Edie de la Factory
Edie was from those especially beautiful
Bada da dap bada dap ba da...
(x 7)
Grand Central
Grand Central
No-one waits for her
ORIGINAL LYRICS 1
© 2010 Wisteria Song / Jive Epic
Ça y est Converse lacées
Cheveux lâchés
On est arrivé
Dedans
Ah comme c'est beau
Dans les échos
Sous la coupole
C'est mieux encore
Une fois dehors
Il fait si bleu
Il fait si bruit
Nous sommes si peu
(J'ai faim, mon dieu, j'ai faim)
Grand Central
Grand Central
Tout le monde descend
Deux flèches
Les feux revêches
Le manteau croisé
Les épaules carrées
Du vétéran
Les policiers
Leurs pommes d'Adam
C'est le printemps
Les tours d'acier
Quarante-deuxième rue 3
Millième avenue
Million avenues
L'armée du salut 4
Y a pas d'horizon
(C'est de la science-fiction)
Grand Central
Grand Central
Personne l'attend, mais ...
Na na na la-na na la-na ....
Elle attendait une limousine sous l'auvent de Tiffany 5
On aurait dit la fille du président, une vraie peste
Sous les bords de sa capeline grésillait une Lucky 6
Elle me demande qui je connais sur la côte Est
Entre l'azur et ses yeux blonds, le soleil a choisi
Edie, Edie, fille de paille, Edie de la Factory
Edie était du genre plutôt très belle
Bada da dap bada dap ba da ...
(x 7, with feedback!)
Grand Central 7
Grand Central 7
Tout le monde descend 7
Grand Central
Grand Central
Personne l'attend
1 Album version.
NB: some words
have been wrapped or split here
to flow
more easily with the sung rhythm
2 Partir en flèche = to be off like a shot
3 42nd Street - Grand Central Terminal sits here,
and intersects Broadway at Times Square
(thanks to Alizée America for the correction)
forming New York's theatre district
4 The Salvation Army a charitable
Christian organisation set up in 1865
5 Upmarket Department Store in New York
6 Lucky - Lucky Strike, a famous cigarette brand
7 These lines are in
the official lyrics but are
not sung on the (Deluxe) album version
REFLECTION: a complementary
complimentary interpretation...
*** UNOFFICIAL ***
DashingConverse lashing
Highlights flashing
Are we arriving
Inside
What fun untold
Some days' echoes
What tales unfold
Rumours to score
Outside once more
Never seen blue
Never keep peace
Too small it's true
(Feed me, my God, feed me)
Grand Central
Grand Central
All coming down
Too flash
Embers in ash
Decembers' cold days
Remembers old ways
Never he ran
The police say
Move along goddamn
Spring alive from
Towers of grey
Broadway awaits you
Million avenues
Left nothing to lose
Beyond our reason
(Cleverly fooling someone)
Grand Central
Grand Central
No-one alone... waits
Na na na la-na na la-na ....
Awaiting her date a shimmering covering of Tiffany
None would've set this girl a precedent, who's dismissed
Lonely draws her tenth cigarette shivering I'm lucky
She's wondering where will she stay away from this
Beauty assured blue eyes or blond, lesser lights shimmering
Edie, Edie, flower so pale, Edie of the Factory
Edie ready allure under your spell
Bada da dap bada dap ba da...
(x 7)
Grand Central
Grand Central
She's all alone ...