Pour Que L'amour Me Quitte

this is such a good song...sad. my french isn't very good but pour que l'amour me quitte means "so that love will leave me". to me (because of my bad french it is too poetic to understand). but i kind of get the feeling her love is dying in the hospitol, and she doesnt want to feel lover for this person anymore because they are dying and it will hurt her. but there are so many things that i am just translating literally taht dont make sense.

i didnt translate this myself, but this is what i got:

Deadened wet hair folded up arms found open window air by the window

So that love will leave me

While sleeping I dreamt of miles of lianas Pagayé, pagayé

So that the love leaves me

Awakened the pale light walls of the hospital too muchlove, it's not normal a heart so sore, hung, taken down

So that love will leave me Love..

[i edited a bit from my french knowledge.. i hope this helps..! =)]

c'est la chanson la plus belle sur le fil. i think the character in the song (if it is camille herself) is describing a kind of transition in her life that surrounded an accident. the first stanza describes a person wet and deadened, perhaps arriving from an accident. the second stanza implies that this person is sleeping, or unconscious, perhaps in the hospital. because she goes on to talk about lianas in pagaye. lianas are tropical climbing trees, and pagaye is a place in burma. in the third stanza, she wakes up in the hospital, describing the walls.

all awhile, she talks about love and how she is left without it. i think she has felt too much love, and thinks it abnormal, so she takes her heart down, or allows the love to leave her.

I think the strength of great writing is that everybody can find it's own meaning. It doesn't need to have an only unique meaning. This is art, not an exact science. That being said, the first signinfication I saw to those lyrics was a missed suicide attempt.

Here's my translation if anyone's interested...it's not quite literal but this is how I understand the song anyway. I feel like it's about someone after failed relationship trying to make the left over love leave her, as if it could just pass through the window by her bed. She could be depressed and sleeping all the time, without taking the time to dry her hair. It seems to me like she feels sick with love, and trapped as if in a hospital. Her dream about could be a metaphor for the relationship, the tropics being the state of paradise/happiness of good times. Just one take on it, anyway.

fallen asleep hair wet arms folded found with the window open air through the window

to let the love leave me

while I was sleeping I dreamed of thousands of lianas Bagan, Bagan

let the love leave me

woken up pale light hospital walls to love too much isn't normal a heart so badly hooked, unhooked

let the love leave me love