D'où je viens le temps n'existe pas,
Les secondes deviennent des heures,
Les années de courts instant sitôt envolés
Et nos mots trompeurs sont remplacés
Par la musique et les couleurs
Qui flottent comme des parfums dans l'air ambré

"N'aie crainte, à présent tout est fini
Brise les chaînes de tes peurs mortelles
Pour à jamais en être libéré
Et retrouver la quiétude passée.
N'aie crainte, à présent tout est fini
Laisse couler tes larmes une dernière fois
Pour à jamais en être libéré
Et rejoins le monde d'où tu viens."


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    Since this is the number 1 Google result for "alcest lyrics translated" I thought I'd add my slightly more correct and smoother translation.

    Where I come from there is no time Seconds become hours The years fly by like short moments* And our misleading words are replaced By music and colours That float like perfumes in the amber air

    Fear not, it's all over now Break the chains of your mortal fears To forever be freed from them** And find again the past tranquillity Fear not, it's all over now Let your tears flow one last time To forever be freed from them And rejoin the world from which you come.

    • = I found it hard to understand the exact meaning of this line because of the strange (to a non-native speaker) word order so it might be wrong, but it gets the idea across. ** = The the "en" in here is the pronoun en rather than the preposition en as inhib has written, so it means "of them" not "in".
    gazbon October 08, 2010   Link

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