Les Étoiles – Bilingual Lyrics French/English

• By: Louane
• Album: Sentiments Heureux

Lyrics & Translation

Discover Louane's touching song 'Les Étoiles,' a powerful ballad that explores themes of love, loss, and the strength to persevere. Through its evocative lyrics and gentle melody, you can connect with universal emotions and gain insight into French storytelling in music.

[English]

I don't want to stay, don't want to try

Don't want to look, my life is going up in smoke

When I see in your eyes, that in fact, you don't care

About what I have in my heart, about what remains of us

How can I not want to leave

When you don't try to hold on

To the fragments of what we could live

And our first smiles

Tell me why

I don't want to forgive

I don't want to look at you anymore

And if I can't erase you

At least I want to move on

I would forget much later

That you didn't want to

That you didn't have the time

That you didn't care

Your little scratches

Your big scrapes

What remains inside,

What I have in my heart

I don't know why

That the stars contemplate my tears

And that they decide the good from the bad

That the stars contemplate my tears

That time wavers and takes away the bad

And as time goes on

I look ahead, I move forward

I don't want to stay

Don't want to try

Don't want to look

My life is going up in smoke

My life is going up in smoke

My life is going up in smoke

My life is going up in smoke

That the stars contemplate my tears

And that they decide the good from the bad

That the stars contemplate my tears

That time wavers and takes away the bad

And as time goes on

I look ahead, I move forward

I don't want to stay

Don't want to try

Don't want to look

My life is going up in smoke

My life is going up in smoke

My life is going up in smoke

My life is going up in smoke

And as time goes on

I look ahead, I move forward

I don't want to stay

Don't want to try

Don't want to look

My life is going up in smoke

My life is going up in smoke

My life is going up in smoke

My life is going up in smoke

That the stars contemplate my tears

And that they decide the good from the bad

That the stars contemplate my tears

That time wavers and takes away the bad

[French]

J’ai pas envie de rester, pas envie d’essayer

Pas envie d’regarder, ma vie part en fumée

Quand j’vois dans tes yeux, qu’en fait, toi tu t’en fous

De c’que j’ai dans le cœur, de c’qui reste de nous

Comment ne pas vouloir partir

Quand t’essaye pas de retenir

Les éclats de ce qu’on a pu vivre

Et nos premiers sourires

Dis-moi pourquoi

J’ai pas envie de pardonner

J’veux plus te regarder

Et si je peux pas t’effacer

Au moins j’veux avancer

J’oublierais bien plus tard

Que t’avais pas envie

Que t’avais pas le temps

Que toi, tu t’en foutais

Tes petites éraflures

Tes grandes égratignures

Ce qui reste à l’intérieur,

Ce que j’ai dans le cœur

J’sais pas pourquoi

Que les étoiles contemplent mes larmes

Et qu’elles décident le bien du mal

Que les étoiles contemplent mes larmes

Que le temps vacille et emporte le mal

Et comme le temps avance

J’regarde devant, j’avance

J’ai pas envie de rester

Pas envie d’essayer

Pas envie de regarder

Ma vie part en fumée

Ma vie part en fumée

Ma vie part en fumée

Ma vie part en fumée

Que les étoiles contemplent mes larmes

Et qu’elles décident le bien du mal

Que les étoiles contemplent mes larmes

Que le temps vacille et emporte le mal

Et comme le temps avance

J’regarde devant, j’avance

J’ai pas envie de rester

Pas envie d’essayer

Pas envie de regarder

Ma vie part en fumée

Ma vie part en fumée

Ma vie part en fumée

Ma vie part en fumée

Et comme le temps avance

J’regarde devant, j’avance

J’ai pas envie de rester

Pas envie d’essayer

Pas envie de regarder

Ma vie part en fumée

Ma vie part en fumée

Ma vie part en fumée

Ma vie part en fumée

Que les étoiles contemplent mes larmes

Et qu’elles décident le bien du mal

Que les étoiles contemplent mes larmes

Que le temps vacille et emporte le mal

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
étoiles /etwal/ B2	noun - stars
contempler /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ple/ C1	verb - to gaze at, to contemplate
larmes /laʁm/ B2	noun - tears
avancer /a.vɑ̃s.e/ B2	verb - to move forward, to progress
fumiée /fy.me/ B2	noun - smoke, fumes
regarder /ʁə.gaʁ.de/ A2	verb - to look at, to watch
essayer /e.se.je/ B1	verb - to try, to attempt
retenir /ʁə.tə.niʁ/ B2	verb - to hold back, to retain
vivre /vivʁ/ B1	verb - to live, to experience
temps /tɑ̃/ A2	noun - time, weather