"L'Amour S'En Fout"

[ocelot]

L’Amour S’En Fout
From the album "Comme Vous..."

On reste sur le quoi
A voir passer la vie
Parce que l’amour se fait
De serments et d’oublis
Fidèle l’horloge martèle
Attirée par l’espace
Sans divisions d’erreurs
De secondes qui menacent

Après toi
Je sais que l’amour s’en fout
Après toi
Tu m’tiens encore en joug
Après toi
J’en ignore même mes larmes
Après toi
Tes silences me désarment

Parce que l’amour attend
Aussi vrai qu’il s’efface
Quand tu fermes les yeux
Je te regarde en face
Dis-moi c’qui me rassure
Et que l’amour c’est beau
Que l’on s’en badigeonne
Comme d’une seconde peau

Après toi
Je sais que l’amour s’en fout
Après toi
Tu m’tiens encore en joug
Après toi
J’en ignore même mes larmes
Après toi
Tes silences…

De l’autre côté de l’amour
Où tu m’attends déjà
De l’autre côté de l’amour
Où tu n’attends que moi
Je n’y retourne pas…

Love If Some Threatens

One stays for the what
Has to see to pass the life
Because love does
Of oaths and of omissions
Faithful the clock hammer
Attracted by the space
No divisions of errors
Of seconds that screw

After you
I know that love if some threaten
After you
You hold me still some yokes
After you
I ignore the same some of my tears
After you
Your silences disarm me

Because love waits
Also truth that they erase
When you close the eyes
I regard you some face
Tell me this that reassures me
And that love that’s beautiful
That one some whitewash themselves
As of a second skin

After you
I know that love if some threaten
After you
You hold me still some yokes
After you
I ignore the same some of my tears
After you
Your silences…

From the other side of love
Where you already wait for me
From the other side of love
Where you wait only for me
I do not return there

[achebeautiful]

Hmmm.....I'm just not understanding this at all! Tell me your thoughts, Leona. It always helps!

[ocelot]

I think this song is about after a relationship is over and she is trying to find some reasoning about things. She knows she could never trust love with that person again but she wants to know if he still loves/cares about her.

[achebeautiful]

Okay, after your comments (which always help me get started!) here's what I take from it:

She has been hurt by this person and is describing for him what it is like after the relationship is over for her. And even though in her silences he continues to disarm her, she has decided that she can never go back to him. Though he is still there even after it's all over, there is no way that she will take him back again.

I also get the sense that what she is describing at the beginning of the song is that the reason that he is still there and waiting for her is no different than the same reason there is ebb and flow and give and take in everything...... the same reason that a clock continues to go round and round, ticking off the seconds and minutes and hours. I think she's saying that he has made the relationship one of routine rather than love.

[ocelot]

I agree with you.