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"
Hé! petite fille tu bois de l'eau et tu es saoule
Là où tu te noies tu as beau avoir pied tu coules
Au port
Hé! petite folle! c'est pas la brasse c'est le crawl
Pour la traversée il t'aurait fallu des épaules
Du corps
Mais lui c'est différent, il est né sur l'océan,
C'est un grand capitaine, un amant monument,
Tu t'es perdue dedans
Hé! petite fille! on est jamais deux à partir
Y en a toujours un pour larguer l'autre pour languir
Au port
Hé! petite cruche! avec tes pots de confiture
Tu partiras en sucette mais pas à l'aventure
Au Nord
Mais lui c'est différent, il est né sur le Mont Blanc,
C'est un grand alpiniste, un amant monument,
Tu as perdu sa piste
Hé! petite nonne! suis l'Au-delà si tu le trouves
Le ramène pas au cardinal pour qu'il te l'ouvre
Encore
Hé! petite larve! je suis toi-même et je te parle
Tu es déjà grande alors lève toi sors de ta cale
Au port
Ton cœur de petite fille est mort.
Hé! petite fille! à ta droite l'Arc de Triomphe
Hé! petite fille! à ta gauche il y a dieu qui ronfle
Hé! petite fille! devant il y a les pyramides
Hé! petite fille! derrière l' génie de la Bastille.
Là où tu te noies tu as beau avoir pied tu coules
Au port
Hé! petite folle! c'est pas la brasse c'est le crawl
Pour la traversée il t'aurait fallu des épaules
Du corps
Mais lui c'est différent, il est né sur l'océan,
C'est un grand capitaine, un amant monument,
Tu t'es perdue dedans
Hé! petite fille! on est jamais deux à partir
Y en a toujours un pour larguer l'autre pour languir
Au port
Hé! petite cruche! avec tes pots de confiture
Tu partiras en sucette mais pas à l'aventure
Au Nord
Mais lui c'est différent, il est né sur le Mont Blanc,
C'est un grand alpiniste, un amant monument,
Tu as perdu sa piste
Hé! petite nonne! suis l'Au-delà si tu le trouves
Le ramène pas au cardinal pour qu'il te l'ouvre
Encore
Hé! petite larve! je suis toi-même et je te parle
Tu es déjà grande alors lève toi sors de ta cale
Au port
Ton cœur de petite fille est mort.
Hé! petite fille! à ta droite l'Arc de Triomphe
Hé! petite fille! à ta gauche il y a dieu qui ronfle
Hé! petite fille! devant il y a les pyramides
Hé! petite fille! derrière l' génie de la Bastille.
Lyrics submitted by snowcamping
Au Port Lyrics as written by Martin Gamet Camille Dalmais
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I can only translate bits of it-help?
Oh little girl, you drink the water and you are (soules) There or you drown yourself you have beauty to have (pied tu coules) To the harbor to the harbor
Oh little crazy, it isn’t the toss it’s the (craule) For the crossing it is necessary for you (eapaules) The body the body
But he is different He is born on the ocean It is a grand captain A (amant) monument You lose yourself (dedans)
Oh little girl we two never have to leave (y’en a) everyday one for (larguer l’autre) pour (l’anguir) To the harbor to the harbor
Oh little (cruche) with the jars of jam You will leave in (sucette) but not (a l’aventure) (Au nord au nord)
But he is different He is born on the white mountain It is a grand (alpiniste) A (amand) monument You are lost (sa piste)
You little (none si l’au dela si) you find (le ramene) not at (cardinal) for what it (te l’ouvre) Again again
Oh little (larve) I am you (meme) and I talk to you You are already big then (leve) you (sort de ta cale) To the harbor to the harbor
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Oh little girl...l’arc de triomphe Oh little girl...who (ronfle) Oh little girl in front of there is a pyramid Oh little girl behind (le genie de la bastille)
So much for taking two years of french and using free translation to help, too. =X