French:
Je croyais que j’avais trouvé
Quelqu’un qui était comme moi, mais non, ce n’est pas toi
Je voulais être en amour, oui
Et je veux toujours l’être. Non, tu ne m’en empêcheras pas
J’ai déjà cru appartenir
Aux personnes qui pardonnent, qui oublient puis fredonnent
Mais quand les mensonges se multiplient,
Mon cœur perd des couleurs et puis je m’assombrie
Je marche à l’école quand il fait encore noir, dehors
Et le soir même, j’étudie, je fais mes devoirs.
C’était très bien d’avoir une distraction de temps en temps
Sans tes niaiseries, les journées passeraient lentement
Et si je t’aimais, me parlerais-tu pour autant?
Et si je t’ignore, est-ce que ça te blesserait facilement?
La météo n’est pas fiable,
Mais pas autant que toi, non pas autant que toi
Les nouvelles du jour me font pleurer
Mais pas autant que toi, jamais autant que toi
La météo n’est pas fiable
Mais pas autant que toi
Je voulais être en amour, oui,
Et tu ne m’en empêcheras pas
J’ai déjà crus appartenir
Aux personnes qui pardonnent, qui oublient puis fredonnent
English: Please believe me when I say that this song is much more poetic in french…
I thought I had found
Someone who was like me, but no, it’s not you
I wanted to be in love, yes
And I’ll always want to be. No, you will not stop me
I once thought I belonged
To those who forgive, who forget and then hum
But when the lies multiply,
My heart loses its colour and I grow dim
I walk to school when it is still dark outside
And at night, I study, I do my homework.
darkIt was very nice to have a distraction from time to time
Without your silliness, the days would pass slowly
And if I loved you, would you still talk to me?
And if I ignore you, would it hurt you easily?
The weather unreliable,
But not as much as you, no not as much as you
The news of the day makes me tear up
But not as much as you, never more so than you
The weather is unreliable
But not as much as you
I wanted to be in love, yes,
And you will not stop me
I once thought I belonged
To those who forgive, who forget and then hum
When I was just barely 3
You told me you had great hopes for me
I would be an astronaut, a physicist, or explore the sea
When I was somewhere around 6
You said I should be a scientist
To find the answers, to make a list
Of the reasons why we all exist
I remember when I was 10
I wanted to be an archaeologist then
So you brought me your old history books
You said: “ They’re not as boring as they look”
But they were
I tried to read them, but they weren’t good at all
I’m sorry if I let you down,
I let the whole thing fall (that is a lie. I LOVE history)
I think when I was about 12
I said I hated math and science as well
You said: “With out both you’d probably be dead
My dear, what’s gotten into your head”
I don’t know,
Thanks for the advice
Or lectures, to be precise
I’m sorry if I let you down,
But letting down’s the price
Now that I’m around 16
You tell me (that) I should follow my dreams
But I don’t image you being to keen
With me travelling the world
Playing tambourine…
Sometimes I feel like I am permafrost
Alone in the tundra and really lost
And to think that this is how I feel
Like the ground is melting and nothing’s real
And in the taiga everybody knows
That you shouldn’t wander where the hemlock grows
When the land is vast and the wind blow fast
Will you stay with me if the darkness last?
I know I have nothing to give so may as well give up and live
You say I’m breaking your friends heart
But meanwhile you’re tearing mine apart
So stop asking me if she loves you back
If it’s charm you have than it’s courage you lack
But I want your love and I want it now
I’d ask you for it but I don’t know how
I want to hold you tight and I want to now
I’d say I love you but I don’t know how
It’s done X2
And I remember when we rode the bus
Through the boreal forest and the winter must
I put my head on your shoulder but you moved away
I said I wasn’t tired anyway
And I pretended that I didn’t care
But I hid a few tears behind a lock of hair
And I was tired and I needed sleep
So I swallowed my pride and I changed seat
Again
So I’d rather you make up your mind
A little faster, you’re such a waste of time X2
And you wanted more but you needed less
‘Cause you think that you’re better than the rest
And I wanted less but I needed more
‘Cause you left all I had on the forest floor
And In the mixed forest with the lakes galore
You always left me wanting more
And in the mixed forest with the lakes galore
You left my heart on the forest floor
I know I have nothing to give so may as well give up and live
Ripple in the midnight clouds
No stars on the horizon
Flicker from an old street light
Attracts the moths who claim the night
Satellites that pass overhead
In the rib caged sky
If they stop, we’re good as dead
So then what good am I
‘Cause I’ve heard from encounter with the past
The creatures gentle glowing never lasts
So won’t someone tell me after all
What happened to the fireflies of Montreal
Darkness in the alley way
At least for some
In the sixties flew away
Left a few, now there are none
But I’ve heard from encounter with the past
The gentle creature’s glowing never lasts
So won’t someone tell me after all
What happened to the fireflies of Montreal
