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Saint Claude

Christine and the Queens

Learn Saint Claude by Christine and the Queens with lyrics, line-by-line translation, and interactive vocabulary practice.

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About this song

Saint Claude by Christine and the Queens is a great song to learn French through music. This page breaks down 63 lines with a clear, line-by-line translation, plus 7 key words such as ouuh, pour, l'orage. Singing along is one of the fastest ways to pick up natural pronunciation and make new phrases stick — far more memorable than plain word lists. Tap any line to open interactive mode and practice the vocabulary until you own it.

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Souffle saccadé

Ragged breath

Voilà qui laisse deviner

This leaves you guessing

Que tout se décide-cide-cide

Let everything be decided-cide-cide

Tout se décide-cide-cide

Everything is decided-cide-cide

Maquillé comme à la craie

Made up like chalk

Tout détonne et tout me plaît

Everything clashes and I like everything

Les mains sont livides-vides-vides

The hands are livid-empty-empty

Mains sont livides-vides-vides

Hands are livid-empty-empty

Un seul de tes poignets est tatoué

Only one of your wrists is tattooed

Défiguré par ta manche

Disfigured by your sleeve

Le lion ne sourit qu'à moitié

The lion only half smiles

À mes solitudes immenses

To my immense solitudes

Ton visage ne s'ra jamais entier

Your face will never be whole

Comme tu regardes au-dehors

As you look outside

J'emporte un portrait dévoré

I take away a devoured portrait

Douleur destin bord à bord

Pain destiny edge to edge

Here's my station

Here's my station

Here's my station

Here's my station

Ouuh ouuh

Ouuh ouuh

But if you say just one word I'll stay with you

But if you say just one word I'll stay with you

Ouuh

Ouh

Here's my station

Here's my station

Here's my station

Here's my station

Ouuh

Ouh

But if you say just one word I'll stay with you

But if you say just one word I'll stay with you

Ouuh

Ouh

La belle attitude

The beautiful attitude

Que l'impatience comme certitude

That impatience as certainty

Collier à trois fils-fils-fils

Three-wire-wire-wire necklace

Liés à trois fils-fils-fils

Related to three sons-son-son

Tu seras j'espère, fidèle au violences qui opèrent

I hope you will be faithful to the violence that operates

Dès que tu respires-pires-pires

As soon as you breathe-worse-worse

Que tu respires-pires-pires

That you breathe-worse-worse

D'ordinaire cette ville n'offre rien

Usually this city offers nothing

Qu'une poignée d'odeurs tenaces

Only a handful of stubborn odors

Que cette ville est morte

That this city is dead

Je sais bien, toi seul gardes de l'audace

I know well, only you retain the audacity

Il faudrait que tu la portes loin

You would have to carry her far away

Alors que d'autres renoncent

While others give up

Je descends deux enfers plus loin

I go down two hells further

Pour que l'orage s'annonce

So that the storm announces itself

Here's my station

Here's my station

Here's my station

Here's my station

Ouuh ouuh

Ouuh ouuh

But if you say just one word

But if you say just one word

I'll stay with you

I'll stay with you

Ouuh ouuh

Ouuh ouuh

Here's my station

Here's my station

Here's my station

Here's my station

Ouuh ouuh

Ouuh ouuh

Song Vocabulary

Key words from this song. Practice them in Langooo to remember them faster.

ouuh

wow

pour

For

l'orage

the storm

s'annonce

announces itself

here's

here's

station

station

tout

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