Autour de moi – Bilingual Lyrics French/English

• By: Fréro Delavega
• Album: Des ombres et des lumières

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the introspective French song "Autour de moi" by Fréro Delavega. Through its poignant lyrics and melancholic melody, you can explore themes of personal struggle and a deep connection to the world around us. Learning this song offers a glimpse into French emotional expression and storytelling.

[English]

I searched, I searched

I searched against wind and tides

A light to finally see

Night, day, no nothing has changed

Around me

And under the moon, the starry sky

No, nothing if you don't want to believe it

One day, the night will have changed everything

Deep inside you

Under the rain and under the wind

My heart is racing, do you hear it?

Do you hear it?

Under the rain and under the wind

My heart is racing, do you hear it?

Do you hear it?

Under the rain, as time goes by

My body is getting exhausted, do you feel it?

Do you feel it?

How long, how will they bloom

Our gardens under the fruits of chance?

Don't you really have any memory, deep inside you?

How many tears, how will they grow

Our dreams lost in these billions?

One day life will make you smile, right there, la-la-la-la-la

Under the rain and under the wind

My heart is racing, do you hear it?

Do you hear it?

Under the rain, as time goes by

My body is getting exhausted, do you feel it?

Do you feel it?

Leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me

Leave me, leave me, leave me

I cry, you don't see me

I scream, you don't hear me

I'm suffering, don't forget me

Under your feet, right there

I cry, you don't see me

I scream, you don't hear me

I'm suffering, don't forget me

Under your feet, right there

I cry, you don't see me

I scream, you don't hear me

I'm suffering, don't forget me

Right there

Under the rain, under the wind

My heart is racing, do you hear it?

Do you hear it?

Under the rain, as time goes by

My body is getting exhausted, do you feel it?

Do you feel it?

Under the rain, under the wind

My heart is racing, do you hear it?

Do you hear it?

Under the rain, as time goes by

My body is getting exhausted, do you feel it?

Do you feel it?

I searched, I searched

...

[French]

J'ai cherché, j'ai cherché

J'ai cherché contre vents et marées

Une lumière pour enfin y voir

La nuit, le jour, non rien n'a changé

Autour de moi

Et sous la lune, le ciel étoilé

Non, rien si tu ne veux pas y croire

Un jour, la nuit aura tout changé

Au fond de toi

Sous la pluie et sous le vent

Mon cœur s'agite, est-ce que t'entends?

Est-ce que t'entends?

Sous la pluie et sous le vent

Mon cœur s'agite, est-ce que t'entends?

Est-ce que t'entends?

Sous la pluie, au fil du temps

Mon corps s'épuise, est-ce que tu sens?

Est-ce que tu sens?

Combien de temps, comment vont fleurir

Nos jardins sous les fruits du hasard?

N'as-tu vraiment aucun souvenir, au fond de toi?

Combien de pleurs, comment vont grandir

Nos rêves perdus dans ces milliards?

Un jour la vie te fera sourire, juste là, la-la-la-la-la

Sous la pluie et sous le vent

Mon cœur s'agite, est-ce que t'entends?

Est-ce que t'entends?

Sous la pluie, au fil du temps

Mon corps s'épuise, est-ce que tu sens?

Est-ce que tu sens?

Laissez-moi, laissez-moi, laissez-moi, laissez-moi

Laissez-moi, laissez-moi, laissez-moi

Je pleure, tu ne me vois pas

Je crie, tu ne m'entends pas

Je souffre, ne m'oublie pas

Sous tes pieds, juste là

Je pleure tu ne me vois pas

Je crie, tu ne m'entends pas

Je souffre, ne m'oublie pas

Sous tes pieds, juste là

Je pleurs tu ne me vois pas

Je crie, tu ne m'entends pas

Je souffre, ne m'oublie pas

Juste là

Sous la pluie, sous le vent

Mon cœur s'agite, est-ce que t'entends?

Est-ce que t'entends?

Sous la pluie, au fil du temps

Mon corps s'épuise, est-ce que tu sens?

Est-ce que tu sens?

Sous la pluie, sous le vent

Mon cœur s'agite, est-ce que t'entends?

Est-ce que t'entends?

Sous la pluie, au fil du temps

Mon corps s'épuise, est-ce que tu sens?

Est-ce que tu sens?

J'ai cherché, j'ai cherché

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
cherché /ʃɛʁ.ʃe/ B1	verb - searched
vent /vɑ̃/ A2	noun - wind
marées /ma.ʁe/ B2	noun - tides
lumière /ly.mjɛʁ/ A2	noun - light
nuit /nɥi/ A1	noun - night
changé /ʃɑ̃.ʒe/ B1	verb - changed
ciel /sjɛl/ A2	noun - sky
étoilé /e.twa.ʁe/ B2	adjective - starry
rêves /ʁɛv/ A2	noun - dreams
sourire /suʁiʁ/ A2	noun - smile
silence /si.lɑ̃s/ B2	noun - silence
pleurs /plœʁ/ B1	noun - tears
rêves /ʁɛv/ A2	noun - dreams
fleurir /flœʁiʁ/ B1	verb - to blossom, to flourish
feu /fø/ A2	noun - fire

Key Grammar Structures

• J'ai cherché, j'ai cherché

  ➔ Passé Composé (compound past)

  ➔ Uses the auxiliary verb "avoir" in the present tense (j'ai) + the past participle of the verb "chercher" (cherché). Indicates an action completed in the past.

• Une lumière pour enfin y voir

  ➔ Use of the pronoun "y" (there)

  ➔ "Y" replaces a place or a thing introduced by the preposition "à", "dans", "sur", or "chez". Here, it likely replaces a place where the speaker hopes to see clearly.

• Non, rien si tu ne veux pas y croire

  ➔ Conditional clause with "si"

  ➔ "Si + present indicative, present indicative". This indicates a real and possible condition. "Si tu ne veux pas y croire (if you don't want to believe it)", then nothing changes.

• Mon cœur s'agite, est-ce que t'entends?

  ➔ Interrogative sentence with subject-verb inversion.

  ➔ The normal word order would be "Tu entends". By inverting the subject and verb (est-ce que t'entends?), it forms a question.

• Nos jardins sous les fruits du hasard?

  ➔ Plural possessive adjective "nos"

  ➔ "Nos" agrees with the plural noun "jardins" (gardens), indicating that the gardens belong to "us".

• N'as-tu vraiment aucun souvenir, au fond de toi?

  ➔ Negative Interrogative with Inversion, use of 'aucun'

  ➔ The sentence structure is inverted for the question (as-tu). "Aucun souvenir" means "no memory". It is a negative form following "ne...aucun"

• Nos rêves perdus dans ces milliards?

  ➔ Past participle used as an adjective

  ➔ "Perdus" is the past participle of "perdre" (to lose) and modifies the noun "rêves" (dreams). It acts as an adjective, describing the state of the dreams (lost). It agrees in gender and number (plural, masculine).

• Un jour la vie te fera sourire

  ➔ Future Simple (Futur Simple)

  ➔ "te fera" is the future simple tense of the verb "faire". It's constructed using the infinitive of the verb "faire" (faire) and adding the appropriate future ending. The "te" is an indirect object pronoun.

• Laissez-moi, laissez-moi, laissez-moi

  ➔ Imperative mood (2nd person plural)

  ➔ "Laissez" is the imperative form of the verb "laisser" (to let, to leave) for the 2nd person plural (vous). It's used to give a command or make a request. The subject pronoun is omitted.