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"
Michelle, ma belle
These are words that go together well
My Michelle
Michelle, ma belle
Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble
Tres bien ensemble
I love you, I love you, I love you
That's all I want to say
Until I find a way
I will say the only words I know that you'll understand
Michelle, ma belle
Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble
Tres bien ensemble
I need to, I need to, I need to
I need to make you see
Oh, what you mean to me
Until I do, I'm hoping you will know what I mean
I love you
I want you, I want you, I want you
I think you know by now
I'll get to you somehow
Until I do, I'm telling you so you'll understand
Michelle, ma belle
Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble
Tres bien ensemble
And I will say the only words I know that you'll understand
My Michelle
These are words that go together well
My Michelle
Michelle, ma belle
Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble
Tres bien ensemble
I love you, I love you, I love you
That's all I want to say
Until I find a way
I will say the only words I know that you'll understand
Michelle, ma belle
Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble
Tres bien ensemble
I need to, I need to, I need to
I need to make you see
Oh, what you mean to me
Until I do, I'm hoping you will know what I mean
I love you
I want you, I want you, I want you
I think you know by now
I'll get to you somehow
Until I do, I'm telling you so you'll understand
Michelle, ma belle
Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble
Tres bien ensemble
And I will say the only words I know that you'll understand
My Michelle
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the song is self-explanatory it's prolly about an English guy who visits Paris and falls in love w/this sweet French girl he meets there but she knows no English and he only knows one phrase in French "Michelle ma belle, Sont les Mots qui vont trés bien ensemble Trés bien ensemble." so he pleads his love to her through this song...
I agree with the person who wrote that the lyric is likely just about an English guy, perhaps Paul himself while touring France, who is infatuated with a lovely French girl. The lyric mostly states very primal emotions about desire because anything more complicated is not possible due to the language barrier. The honesty is in that, despite the language barrier, there is really nothing more that could be said anyway. The cleverness is in using the French language, which not only sounds romantic to the English-speakers, but also uses the language barrier as a metaphor for what cannot be expressed through words about feelings, in any language. Using minor chords where he does also emphasizes the angst about wanting to say more than words allow. It's an amazing song in that, though the lyric is not sad, it produces an ambivalence of emotion, combining joy and melancholy. A rich palette in such a deceptively simple song. Between '66 and '67 Paul was at his peak that few writers can match. In my opinion, Paul wrote the 2nd and 3rd best American songs ever in Yesterday and Eleanor Rigby (the best being Mancini's and Merecer's Moon River).
@rhapsonix "Paul wrote the 2nd and 3rd best American songs ," american?
I always thought it was "sont les MOTS qui vont tres bien ensemble".. as in.. these are the words that go together well... Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm right..
You are, im a French speaker. Actually perfectly translated it's "Are the words that go together well, very well."
"Michelle, my beautiful, we go together very well." == "Michelle, ma belle, sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble" thats the exact translation... I speak french since i'm able to talk. ;) Very nice song. About a guy who prolly fall in love with a frenchie girl.
Well, no matter what he says I think what is important is that he can't say what he really wants to: "I love you, I love you, I love you..." And isn't that a feeling we can all relate to. I know there is more then one occation, when all the right words didn't come flowing out.
rubber soul was the first beatles album i'd ever heard, at the tender age of 6, so all of the songs from that album hold a special place in my heart.
i used to sing this song all the time and i'd drive my parents crazy. i think it's basically just a simple little love song, really beautiful.
Well, I'm French, and I agree with what you said : the french part is the exact translation of the english part!!! No need to translate it in english, then, it is already done... Well, this song is very appreciated by French people, of course, it is nice to hear the Beatles singing in our language! In addition, his english accent is sooooo cute... Actually, when hearing "Michelle, ma belle, sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble, très bien ensemble", it is just what one says to seduce a woman : waw, your name is beautiful, and it goes well with "ma belle"! One could think he just wants make her feel flattered, but he sounds so depressed when singing that, that it is obvious that he is just sad and wants to stay with her, that's all.
yeah..that makes more sense.
The French chorus means the exact same thing as the English one: Michelle, ma belle (literally, "my beautiful", it's a term of endearnment)/these are words that go together well.
Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble
Sont: conjugation of the verb etre(to be) Les Mots: The words Qui: who, or that vont: conjugation of the verb aller(to go) Tres: Very Bien: good or well Ensemble: together.
Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble means These are words that go together well.
Je peu parle francais, j'etais dans immersion dans ecole.