I always thought (like others here) that this song was about lovers who never intended to get close or have anything long term, but that the narrator has fallen for the other.
But I recently watched Indochine's video... and the singer spends the entire narrative walking towards the camera, first carrying a baby, then carrying a young girl, until finally an older girl (still in maybe her preteens) walks by herself and joins the singer in a duet.
This put a whole different twist on the song for me and made me wonder about it in context of a father raising a young girl, seeing the time they have together as a potentially short-lived adventure and hoping she would still want him to be a part of his life as she grows older.
That being said, the expression "C'était just une aventure" is more commonly used as "It was just a fling."
I always thought (like others here) that this song was about lovers who never intended to get close or have anything long term, but that the narrator has fallen for the other.
But I recently watched Indochine's video... and the singer spends the entire narrative walking towards the camera, first carrying a baby, then carrying a young girl, until finally an older girl (still in maybe her preteens) walks by herself and joins the singer in a duet.
This put a whole different twist on the song for me and made me wonder about it in context of a father raising a young girl, seeing the time they have together as a potentially short-lived adventure and hoping she would still want him to be a part of his life as she grows older.
That being said, the expression "C'était just une aventure" is more commonly used as "It was just a fling."