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.
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.