This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
je m'baladais sur l'avenue,
le coeur ouvert a l'inconnu.
j'a vais envie de dire bonjour a n'importe
qui n'importe qui et ce fut toi,
je t'ai dit n'importe quoi,
il suffisait de te parler,
pour t'apprivoiser.
aux champs-élysées,
aux champs-élysées
au soleil, sous la pluie, a midi ou a minuit,
il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux champs-élysées
tu m'as dit "j'ai rendez-vous
dans un sous-sol avec des fous,
qui vivent la guitare a la main,
du soir au matin".
alors je t'ai accompagnée,
on a chanté, on a dansé et l'on n'a
même pas pensé a s'embrasser
aux champs-élysées,
aux champs-élysées
au soleil, sous la pluie, a midi ou a minuit,
il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux champs-élysées
le coeur ouvert a l'inconnu.
j'a vais envie de dire bonjour a n'importe
qui n'importe qui et ce fut toi,
je t'ai dit n'importe quoi,
il suffisait de te parler,
pour t'apprivoiser.
aux champs-élysées,
aux champs-élysées
au soleil, sous la pluie, a midi ou a minuit,
il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux champs-élysées
tu m'as dit "j'ai rendez-vous
dans un sous-sol avec des fous,
qui vivent la guitare a la main,
du soir au matin".
alors je t'ai accompagnée,
on a chanté, on a dansé et l'on n'a
même pas pensé a s'embrasser
aux champs-élysées,
aux champs-élysées
au soleil, sous la pluie, a midi ou a minuit,
il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux champs-élysées
Lyrics submitted by 66exeter
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traditional french song.... we had to sing this for our french final... we listened to the origional version like 20 times before someone in our class brought in the NOFX version, our teacher loved it! if you take the literal meaning of some parts its a pretty depressing song... like "aux champs-élysées" is kindof a french term for being dead (or so i heard) so "aux champs-élysées, au soleil, sous la pluie, a midi ou a minuit, il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux champs-élysées" means: when i'm dead, when i'm dead, in the sun, under the rain, at noon or at midnight there is everythign you want to do, when i'm dead"
You said you took French. You should know that the Champs Elysees is the largest street in France. It's located in Paris and is a straight road that stretches for two kilometers through Paris. And also, the French word for death is mourir. The past tense is mort. Death is not mentioned in this song at all. It's about having fun on the largest street in the world.
in short, walking, talking to anybody, that anybody was you (the girl ) i needed to talk to you to "apprivoiser" can't think of english word, sort of adopte but more for animals. told me you had to meet crazy people in the basement who live with a guitar night and morning, i went with you we danced we sang we thought of kissing the chorus: in the " champs-élysées" ( in paris) or heavenly fields,in the rain, in the sun, at noon or midnight there everything you want in the " champs elysee. hope this helps :)
hehe i love this song..my favorite line: "I'll meet you in the basement with the insane one who lives; guitar in hand from night 'til morning" nofx is awesome! those of you who like them... check out monosyllabic girl!
Great song... dont know what it means cept Fat Mike said translated its some dumb love song lol well Fat Mike is one of the 4 punk gods in my opinion (others being Lars, Tim, and Brett from Rancid and Bad Religion) and if you have never heard nofx before check out super flu the malachi crunch and their cover of vincent.... best songs by them in my opinion... rite... im out
ugh why do i always say super flu? Just the flu**** damn oh yeah and decline is a fucking masterpiece who would of thot a punk band would do an 18 min song?
oops. it's suppose to read " a guitar at hand, at night and morning. the whole thing is written note form-ish. keep that in mind too, it's not word for word,
this song is actually a cover of a song by Joe Dassin, a french songwriter, on his album 'Les Champs Elyses'. The original song was released in the late 1960's on a french label, and made it to the US by import.
WTF!!! Orange you probably think that Blink is better than NOFX, NOFX are gods of punk.
damn straight
How can someone even bag on propaghandi or NOFX? Both are such awesome bands. What kinda music you like Orange?