Cavale Lyrics in English Coeur De Pirate

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Cavale by Coeur De Pirate from French to English.

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I often think back to moments past

Putting on glitter, getting myself noticed

By you and those in neon tights

Who yelled your name from far away

I spent hours on the commute

To love you, finally get to see you again

And spend even just a moment

In your parents' house

But as soon as you found out

That my heart had gone on the run

You grabbed the chance and headed for your layover

But where

Where will you go, where will you go

When regrets come back?

What'll you become, what'll you become

If you keep denying the end?

More than once, next to nothing

Your blue eyes, blunt-cut bangs

You seemed a mountain amid the tides

And you stayed icy in front of me

While my whole self melted before you

But as soon as you found out

That my heart had gone on the run

You grabbed the chance and headed for your layover

But where

Where will you go, where will you go

When regrets come back?

What'll you become, what'll you become

If you keep denying the end?

More than once, next to nothing

But who

Who will you be, who will you be

When memories come back?

How much shame, how much shame

For what we'd have become

If you'd wanted me?

And when I see you again

You come and take me in your arms

You tell me how well I seem to be doing

And I know you blame yourself

For letting that chance to kiss me slip by

But where

Where will you go, where will you go

When regrets come back?

What'll you become, what'll you become

If you keep denying the end?

More than once, next to nothing

But who

Who will you be, who will you be

When memories come back?

How much shame, how much shame

For what we'd have become

If you'd wanted me

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cavale — on the run / escape

Cavale literally means an 'escape' or 'flight', often used to describe a prisoner who is on the run. It's a dramatic and slightly edgy word that you won't hear every day.

In this song, Coeur de Pirate uses it in a beautiful metaphor: "mon coeur partait en cavale" (my heart was going on the run). This paints a vivid picture of her feelings as wild, unstoppable, and breaking free, adding a powerful layer of emotion to the story.

Cavale feels like paging through a glitter-covered diary, where Béatrice Martin (the voice behind Cœur de Pirate) relives a teenage crush that once sparkled brighter than neon tights. The singer paints vivid scenes of long commutes just for a few stolen minutes in her lover’s parents’ house, of trying to stand out with “paillettes” while distant admirers shout his name. Every line drips with that mix of excitement and insecurity we experience when we love someone who might never fully love us back.

When she realizes her own heart is ready to “take off on the run,” the boy bolts for the nearest exit, leaving only unanswered questions: Where will you go when the regrets catch up? Who will you be when memories return? The chorus circles around those doubts, filling the song with bittersweet suspense. By the time they meet again, it is too late—he sees she is thriving, and the weight of missed chances hangs in the air. Cavale is ultimately a shimmering ode to youthful infatuation, the ache of unreciprocated feelings, and the haunting what-ifs that follow us when we let true connection slip away.

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