Ensemble – Bilingual Lyrics French/English
Lyrics & Translation
Key Vocabulary
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Key Grammar Structures
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Et dans ces courses sans dérive, on tombe presque hors champ
➔ Use of the present tense 'on tombe' to express an ongoing action or general truth.
➔ 'on' is the impersonal pronoun used like 'we' or 'people' in French, and 'tombe' is the present tense of 'tomber'.
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Car ce que tu es rime avec regrets
➔ Use of 'rime avec' to indicate rhyme or metaphorical connection.
➔ 'rime avec' literally means 'rhymes with', used here metaphorically to show a connection.
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Et dans ces courses sans dérive, on tombe presque hors champ
➔ Use of 'sans' to express negation or absence of something ('without').
➔ 'sans' means 'without' and negates or indicates the absence of a characteristic.
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Et sans gêne, tu te défonces, tu ne comprends pas
➔ Use of reflexive pronoun 'tu te défonces' to indicate the subject's action upon themselves.
➔ 'tu te défonces' is a reflexive construction meaning 'you mess up' or 'you indulge excessively'—the action is performed by the subject on themselves.
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Car ce que tu es rime avec regrets
➔ Use of 'rime avec' to metaphorically connect two ideas or concepts.
➔ The phrase 'rime avec' means 'rhymes with', but here it is used metaphorically to indicate a close connection or similarity between 'what you are' and 'regrets'.