LITERAL TRANSLATION

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She is alone on the floor
Flowing [easily] under [the influence of] the alcohol
The varnish cracks
Under the idol

To powder the [facial] features
To coat in silk
Those who injure and those whom one allows
to get behind oneself

To idealise
A shattered past
Not fulfilled
That it's no longer there

To idealise
To rightly suppose
That she dared all
And to place on him
A final kiss
A kiss

Her stockings undone
In all the aleepless nights
Snow White displayed
To the archangels


It snows on Downtown
The end of the seventies
The time it's the autumn
Without surprise

To idealise
A shattered past
Not fulfilled
That it's no longer there

To idealise
To become a beauty [or belle]
To upset the scene
To aim [for]


A one-way ticket
The leap into the emptiness
The little club-kid

Doesn't like the day anymore
To idealise
To rightly suppose

That she dared all
And to place on him
A final kiss

ORIGINAL LYRICS 1
© 2007 Wisteria Song / Sony BMG Music
Éditions: Sony ATV Publishing - Sir Sid / Sir Sid
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Elle est seule sur le sol
Coulant sous l'alcool
Le vernis se craquelle
Sous l'idole

Se poudrer le faciès
Enrober de soie
Ce qui blesse et qu’on laisse
derrière soi

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Un passé brisé
Pas réaliser
Qu’il n’est plus là

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Juste supposer
Qu’elle a tout osé
Et lui poser
Un dernier baiser
Un baiser

Ses bas ont défilé
Dans toutes les nuits blanches
Blanche-neige exhibée
Aux archanges

Il neige sur Downtown
Fin des seventies
Le temps c’est de l'automne
Sans surprise

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Un passé brisé
Pas réaliser
Qu’il n’est plus là

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Se faire une beauté
Retourner la scène
Viser

L’aller sans retour
Le saut dans le vide
La petite club-kid 2

N’aime plus le jour
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Juste supposer

Qu’elle a tout osé
Et lui poser
Un dernier baiser

1 Album version.
NB: some words have been wrapped or split here
to flow more easily with the sung rhythm

2 Perhaps a reference to Britney Spears?
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REFLECTION: a complementary
complimentary interpretation...
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Falling soul believes all
Cruising through it all
Still believes the same spell
Soothes her fall

Powdering the faces
Silken dressed in words
They feel less left her less
Careless words

Is this all we say
In passing this way
Pieces fall away
See nothing's left

Is this all we say
Choose to go this way
Dared to choose her way
Believe her say
One last kiss she saves
Kiss to save

Stockings lifeless fallen
Nights not coming round
Snow White shows the angels
Looking down


Snows round Downtown
Farewell seventies
Seasons turning, autumn
Broken, leaves

Is this all we say
In passing this way
Pieces fall away
See nothing's left

Is this all we say
Beauty comes this way
Returning to stay
Her aim


To leave not return
Vault across the abyss
Days would be like this

No more please she's sure
Is this all we say
Choose to go this way

Dared to choose her way
Believe her say
One last kiss she saves