This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
L'amour plus fort que la mort
C'est dans les livres ça fait fort, c'est Max!
C'est comme les petits reflets d'or
Dans mes miroirs où s'endort Max!
Ô Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
J'ai des tiroirs à trésors
Où je me cache quand je dors
Un tout petit maximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-ximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-xi-mum
Bien plus fort que la mort
L'amour plus fort que la mort
Je le connais, ça fait fort, c'est Max!
C'est des images découpées que je colle dans mes cahiers
Blancs
Ô Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Il habite à l'est d'Eden.
Il a une vie sans problèmes
Un tout petit maximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-ximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-xi-mum
Bien plus fort que la mort
Dites pas qu'il n'existe pas Maxou,
Il est bien à moi
Il m'aime
Il habite à l'est d'Eden
Il sait bien que je l'aime Max!
Ô Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
J'ai des tiroirs à trésors
Où je me cache quand je dors
Un tout petit maximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-ximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-xi-mum
Bien plus grand que la vie
(Bien plus fort que la mort)
C'est dans les livres ça fait fort, c'est Max!
C'est comme les petits reflets d'or
Dans mes miroirs où s'endort Max!
Ô Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
J'ai des tiroirs à trésors
Où je me cache quand je dors
Un tout petit maximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-ximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-xi-mum
Bien plus fort que la mort
L'amour plus fort que la mort
Je le connais, ça fait fort, c'est Max!
C'est des images découpées que je colle dans mes cahiers
Blancs
Ô Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Il habite à l'est d'Eden.
Il a une vie sans problèmes
Un tout petit maximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-ximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-xi-mum
Bien plus fort que la mort
Dites pas qu'il n'existe pas Maxou,
Il est bien à moi
Il m'aime
Il habite à l'est d'Eden
Il sait bien que je l'aime Max!
Ô Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
Ma-xou
J'ai des tiroirs à trésors
Où je me cache quand je dors
Un tout petit maximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-ximum
Un tout pe-tit ma-xi-mum
Bien plus grand que la vie
(Bien plus fort que la mort)
Lyrics submitted by SophieSomething
Maxou Lyrics as written by Henri Langolff
Lyrics © EDITIONS J-C VANNIER, DELABEL EDITIONS
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Feels strange to tell that Vanessa... Was somewhat the 80's Louane! I admire both of them!
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"East of Eden" is a reference to James Dean, and knowing that Vanessa was a fan of the late actor... "A little maximum, bigger than life (...) stronger than death" means that she has a big crush on him although he is gone forever.
As for the title song "Marilyn & John" and "Cut Cut Brother", Vanessa has also recorded an English version, all 3 of them appear on the American release of her debut LP.