Avec Élégance Lyrics
Mais au temps de la décadence
Gratter sa mémoire à deux mains
Ne plus parler qu'à son silence
Et
Ne plus vouloir se faire aimer
Pour cause de trop peu d'importance
Etre désespéré
Mais avec élégance
Qu'au temps où le corps étais mince
Lire dans les yeus de ravissantes
Que cinquante ans c'est la province
Et
Brûler sa jeunesse mourante
Mais faire celui qui s'en dispense
Etre désespéré
Mais avec élégance
Où l'on est chaque fois le plus vieux
Y éclabousser de pourboires
Quelques barmans silencieux
Et
Grignoter des banalités
Avec des vieilles en puissance
Etre désespéré
Mais avec élégance
Savoir son poids de lâcheté
Pouvoir se passer de bonheur
Savoir ne plus se pardonner
Et
N'avoir plus grand chose á rêver
Mais écouter son coeur qui danse
Etre désespéré
Mais avec espérance.
I'll translate:
Feeling a bit Roman But in times of decadence Scratching your memory with two hands Not talk but to your silence And Not wanting to be loved anymore Being desperate But with grace
Feeling the mountain is more slippery Then at the time when your body was thin Reading in the eyes of the charming that the province is fifty years old (?) And Burning your dying youth But hate the ones who throw it away Being inconsolable But with grace
Going out to pass through bars Where you're always the oldest one Spending tips there To a few silent bartenders And Nibbling on everyday snacks With old women in your power Being inconsolable But with grace
Knowing that you've always been afraid to know how much you are scared to be able to be happy knowing you cannot forgive anymore And Not having anything big to dream about no more But listening to your dancing heart Being inconsolable But with outlook
yeah good translation... Except on second verse: it would be "Reading in the eyes of the charming that fifty years old is the province" (the opposite of what you wrote). Province in french means the opposite of Paris. Paris in French means fashionable and hype. So he feels in the eyes of the charming that he's no longer fashionable, no longer attractive. Great way to express this feeling. This song is so deeply sad but it has this grandeur... with grace !