Laurence Jalbert — Bella song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Bella" by Laurence Jalbert.
Lyrics
Dans la brunante d’un ciel de ville
Une belle trane
Son ombre vieillit sous les dalles effrites
Des ruelles d’argile o reposent ses amours
O reposent ses amours
De ses nuits mouvementes
Belle Bella Belle
coups de pierre les enfants
Ne t’ont pas prise dans leurs bras
Belle Bella Bella
On a ri de tes cheveux,
De la terreur dans tes yeux, on a ri
Hier encore, sous le balcon
On entendait soupirer
Les voix derrire les volets
Mais aujourd’hui ne reste la fentre
Que les rouges lueurs
De toutes tes nuits de fte
Bella Bella Bella
A coups de pierre les enfants ne t’ont pas
Prise dans leurs bras
Belle Bella Bella
On a ri de tes cheveux,
De la terreur dans tes yeux
Bella Bella Bella
On a ri, plis en deux
Des ombres dans tes creux
On a ri
Mains avides, vides comme l’est sa vie
Se frottent son dos
Comme une seconde peau
Dans la nuit humide de son lent suicide
Elle a tendu les bras
Va-et-vient de l’au-del
Lyrics translation
In the brunante of a city sky
A beautiful trane
Its shadow grows old under the crumbling slabs
Clay alleys O rest his loves
O rest his loves
Of its moving nights
Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful
stone blows children
They didn't take you in their arms
Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful
We laughed at your hair,
Terror in your eyes, we laughed
Yesterday again, under the balcony
We could hear sighing
The voices behind the shutters
But today only the rift remains
That the red glows
Of all your fte nights
Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful
The children did not stone you
Taken in their arms
Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful
We laughed at your hair,
Terror in your eyes
Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful
We laughed, folded in half
Shadows in your hollows
We laughed
Greedy hands, empty as is his life
Rub her back
Like a second skin
In the wet night of her slow suicide
She stretched out her arms
Back and forth from beyond