Ton visage se dessine dans les moindre détails
Un peu sonnée par cette foutue bataille
Je m'accroche a tes mots dans le moindre détail
Mon ventre se tort avant de te dire bye bye
Un peu sonnée par ce foutu détail
Ta voix résonne au fond de mes entrailles
Ton visage se dessine dans les moindre détails
Un peu sonnée par cette foutue bataille
Je m'accroche a tes mots dans le moindre détail
i adore this song... i don't think the refrain fits that well, but i like it nevertheless.
my favorite part is " ta voix résonne au fond de mes entrailles"
Yep, so do I. For a while I have sung it as part of a Superbus Wow-medley but I could barely figure out what this song was about. I\'ve put 2 interpretations here, suggesting the butterflies in the narrator\'s stomach were not only the famous expression meaning she\'s anxious, apprehensive, nervous or uncertain, but were an unborn baby\'s moves as well, in both.
Yep, so do I. For a while I have sung it as part of a Superbus Wow-medley but I could barely figure out what this song was about. I\'ve put 2 interpretations here, suggesting the butterflies in the narrator\'s stomach were not only the famous expression meaning she\'s anxious, apprehensive, nervous or uncertain, but were an unborn baby\'s moves as well, in both.
here is my english translation. :) its not very good but pelase don't be harsh i am english speaking and only just starting GCSE french. i found the middle verse really tricky >___<
I have butterflies, butterflies in disorder You're face is drawn in less detail A little surounded by these fought battles I cling to your words with less detail
Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly (x 2)
I have butterfliess, emotions in disorder My stomach wronged itself before telling you bye bye A little surrounded by this bloody(maybe fought? im really not sure) detail Your voice repeats through me(?/to the bottom of me)
Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly (x 4)
I have butterflies, butterflies in disorder You're face is drawn in less detail A little surounded by these fought battles I cling to your words with less detail
Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly (x 4)
For just starting, your interpretation is really close. :) I made some corrections, though.
For just starting, your interpretation is really close. :) I made some corrections, though.
I have butterflies, butterflies galore Your face is drawn to the smallest detail A little stunned by this damn battle I cling to your words in the smallest detail
I have butterflies, butterflies galore Your face is drawn to the smallest detail A little stunned by this damn battle I cling to your words in the smallest detail
I have butterflies, emotions galore (This line doesn't translate well>) My stomach goes wrong before you say bye-bye A little stunned by this damn detail (note: you're right; foutue does mean bloody, but it can also be used as an expletive, and I thought it fit better. It could be bloody :) ) Your voice resonates through me (literally, through my...
I have butterflies, emotions galore (This line doesn't translate well>) My stomach goes wrong before you say bye-bye A little stunned by this damn detail (note: you're right; foutue does mean bloody, but it can also be used as an expletive, and I thought it fit better. It could be bloody :) ) Your voice resonates through me (literally, through my bowles 0.o)
@renlovelove I hesitate for the first verse, between "tes maux" (your pains) and "tes mots" (your words).
@renlovelove I hesitate for the first verse, between "tes maux" (your pains) and "tes mots" (your words).
The narrator is a teenager, pregnant with her first child (6 months and half in the first verse, 8 months in the second) and has many emotions.
Going back on my first interpretation. I first thought the narrator was a teenager, well... Jennifer Ayache\'s lyrics are probably impersonating people in their late teens or aiming at them IMHO. So here, the narrator can be a pregnant teenager who feels mature enough to have her first child at her age, so she\'s in her late teens.\r\n\r\n\r\nIt\'s a song about a pregnant girl, in her last trimester, who realises that her baby has an undisclosed heavy defect, and giving birth with no survival chance, either for the baby or both. Jen sings "ah" 6 times and half after the...
Going back on my first interpretation. I first thought the narrator was a teenager, well... Jennifer Ayache\'s lyrics are probably impersonating people in their late teens or aiming at them IMHO. So here, the narrator can be a pregnant teenager who feels mature enough to have her first child at her age, so she\'s in her late teens.\r\n\r\n\r\nIt\'s a song about a pregnant girl, in her last trimester, who realises that her baby has an undisclosed heavy defect, and giving birth with no survival chance, either for the baby or both. Jen sings "ah" 6 times and half after the first chorus and at the end : the narrator must have been 6 months and half pregnant when she had that scan. See, there are 9 letters in the word Butterfly. And repeating the word 8 times instead of 9 in the chorus, should suggest that she\'s having premature birth at 8 months.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe narrator is having butterflies in her stomach ("J\'ai des butterfly") but not only : she is pregnant. Have a listen to the beginning : the sound of butterfly wings, heavy beat and synth wave could suggest she feels butterflies in her stomach and that her baby\'s heart is beating.\r\n\r\nThe narrator must be going through her last trimester, since she feels her unborn baby move a lot, and she compares those moves to butterflies wings ("Des papillons en pagaille"). Her unborn baby\'s face could be visible during a scan ("Ton visage se dessine dans les moindres détails"), and she realised that, while still attached to the umbilical cord, the unborn baby has a heavy defect that was detected during the scan ("Je m\'accroche à tes maux dans le moindre détail").\r\n\r\nBut the revelation of the illness of the narrator\'s child ("Un peu sonnée par ce foutu détail") suddenly brings too many emotions to her ("Des émotions en pagaille"), because she realises there would be no chance that the baby survives ("Un peu sonnée par cette foutue bataille") and so, has to undergo an emergency birth by inducing contractions, not by a C-section ("Mon ventre se tord avant de te dire bye-bye"). There the chorus is repeated twice, suggesting (or not) that both the narrator and her unborn baby may be in danger.\r\n\r\nThen the first verse reappears : the narrator is undergoing emergency birth and remembers the aforementioned scan beforehand. Have a clear listen to the instrumental part before the last chorus : it feels like the narrator is breathing heavily due to giving birth.\r\n\r\nThen as the last chorus kicks in : it feels like the narrator is screaming, but as the baby gets out of her body, she could hear him or her cry ("Ta voix résonne au fond de mes entrailles"). At the end of the song, the last drum bang and lazier synth suggest that the baby, who has now arrived, has a regular heartbeat but is breathing difficultly, and so, is dying. There is no official proof that the narrator survives after losing her child.
Reconsidering my interpretation. It\'s a song about a teenager getting pregnant without wanting it, realising it but too late, and having the baby born before term in the last trimester. The narrator is a pregnant teenager who realised, between 4 and 8 months too late (due to both denial and not having used protection) that she was expecting her first child, but considers she\'s too young to have one. Have a listen to the beginning : the sound of butterflies wings, heavy beat and synth wave could suggest she has had the scan revealing her pregnancy. Her unborn baby\'s face could be visible during the scan ("Ton visage se dessine dans les moindres détails"), so the baby has a fœtus status, she has a baby bump showing, and feels the baby still attached to the umbilical cord ("Je m\'accroche à tes maux dans le moindre détail"). She must be going through her last trimester, since she feels the baby move a lot ("Des papillons en pagaille"), and she compares those moves to butterflies wings. But her undesired child brings pain to her ("Un peu sonnée par cette foutue bataille"), she feels like getting rid of the little one before term and so, induces uterine contractions ("Mon ventre se tord avant de te dire bye-bye"). Have a clear listen to Jen in to the instrumental part before the last chorus : it feels like the narrator is breathing heavily due to the premature childbirth, until she gets tired ("Un peu sonnée par ce foutu détail"). Then as the last chorus kicks in : it feels like the narrator is screaming, but as she lost a lot of liquid before the baby gets out, she could hear the baby cry as it leaves her ("Ta voix résonne au fond de mes entrailles"). At the end of the song, she gets rid of her undesired baby who has now arrived, but there is no official proof that he or she survives.
@Oliviaka I'm sorry, but imo, it's just a love song...
@Oliviaka I'm sorry, but imo, it's just a love song...
In France, we're used to says that we've butterfly in stomach when we're in love. I think, that the narrator is just saying that she's in love. You're talking about "ton visage se dessine dans les moindres détails", it's just meaning she's remembering the face of her love. "Je m'accroche à tes mots dans le moindre détails" : when we're in love, i think usually, we just believe blindly the loved one. "Des papillons en pagailles" : her feelings is really deep. "Un peu sonnée par cette foutue bataille" : she doesn't know how to...
In France, we're used to says that we've butterfly in stomach when we're in love.
I think, that the narrator is just saying that she's in love.
You're talking about "ton visage se dessine dans les moindres détails", it's just meaning she's remembering the face of her love.
"Je m'accroche à tes mots dans le moindre détails" : when we're in love, i think usually, we just believe blindly the loved one.
"Des papillons en pagailles" : her feelings is really deep.
"Un peu sonnée par cette foutue bataille" : she doesn't know how to manage her feelings and feels dizzy between the happiness to be with the loved one, and the pain to be far.
"Mon ventre se tord avant de te dire bye-bye" : it's hurts to say goodbye when you have to leave your soulmate, so the pain is felt into the belly (no more butterfly to this moment)
"Ta voix résonne au fond de mes entrailles" : i guess here, when she heard the loved one's voice, it is just like it was vibrating inside her.
Now, this is just how i feel the song, cause i also have all of these feelings she's talking about when I'm with my half.
Also, sorry if my English is not perfect, i hope it's not too bad tho.
Having a third interpretation that looks even more poetic : this time, the narrator is not a pregnant teenager, but a lyricist who has to write a song in a hurry! So now, the butterfly is not a fœtus unlike my 2 previous interpretations, but a song that the lyricist writes, going from caterpillar (white page) to butterfly (completed page).\n\nThe narrator imagines the full body of her song, including its face ("ton visage se dessine dans les moindres détails") but is facing a white page, she is in a hurry (no reason given, the song having a "due date", so not completed in a long span) and doesn\'t know what to write, and so gets anxious or nervous ("j\'ai des butterflies, des papillons en pagaille"). But finding the right words is a difficult task to her ("un peu sonnée par cette foutue bataille, je m\'accroche à tes mots dans le mondre détail").\nThe more she writes, the more she feels emotions that the reader would feel too ("des émotions en pagaille"), and this brings so much pleasure to her while her song is being written. At one time, she feels so immersed in her writing that she doesn\'t stop for anything else, including eating ("mon ventre se tord"), but then she doesn\'t care about that anymore ("un peu sonnée par ce foutu détail") until she has completed her lyrics ("avant de te dire bye-bye"). But the lyricist is not the one who will sing the song, so she has to find the singer for it, and imagines how he or she will sing ("ta voix résonne au fond de mes entrailles").\n\nIMHO I wonder how "lyrical contractions" looks like, and how come the "song birth" isn\'t a painful one and how come the narrator does not have any "post-lyrical depression" at the end. (Author\'s note : NOT with child while I wrote all 3 interpretations.)