En Attendant Lyrics in English Maëlle

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song En Attendant by Maëlle from French to English.
En attendant
Waiting
En attendant
Waiting
Que le soir revienne
For evening to return
C'est tentant
It's tempting
D'oublier
To forget
Ce temps
That time
Où on roulait dans le vent
When we rode in the wind
Au milieu de Ouessant
In the middle of Ouessant
La mer, elle voyait tout
The sea, she saw everything
Le beau, le pire de nous
The good, the worst of us
Je sais qu'elle savait
I know she knew
Au fond on se perdait
Deep down we were losing ourselves
Elle nous a rien dit
She told us nothing
En attendant
Waiting
En me levant
Getting up
Je rattrape le temps bizarrement
I oddly catch up on time
J'avais oublié
I'd forgotten
Comment
How
Faire comme ce n'est plus toi
To act like it's not you anymore
Qui partage mes nuits là
Who shares my nights now
Mes folles insomnies
My crazy insomnia
Me font tout voir en gris
Makes me see it all in gray
Toi qui hantes Paris
You who haunt Paris
Ton fantôme est partout
Your ghost is everywhere
Et c'est la fin
And it's the end
Qui brûle et qui dévore
That burns and devours
T'oublier, ai-je tort
Forgetting you, am I wrong
Mais je le sens bien
But I feel it
Que nos failles étaient fortes
That our flaws were strong
Et pour que je m'en sorte
And so I can pull through
Je danserai encore
I'll dance again
Et j'attendrai encore
And I'll wait again
Que tout ça s'efface
For all this to fade
Que ça se détache
For it to come loose
Je voudrais tant
I want it so much
En attendant
Waiting
En attendant
Waiting
En attendant
Waiting
En attendant
Waiting
En attendant
Waiting
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SONG MEANING

En Attendant is a dreamy postcard from a love that has already sailed away. Maëlle paints two contrasting scenes: carefree memories of racing windswept roads on the island of Ouessant, and the lonely silence of present-day Paris where only a ghost of that romance remains. The sea once “saw everything” – every thrill and every crack – yet kept the lovers’ secrets. Now, each dawn finds the singer measuring time differently, waking to nights no longer shared and to insomnia that tints the city gray.

Despite the ache, the song is also about survival. Maëlle wonders if forgetting is wrong, admits how powerful their flaws were, and chooses movement over stagnation: “I will dance again, I will wait again.” Until memories loosen their grip and the pain detaches, she lives in this suspended moment of en attendant – in waiting – where hope and heartache rhythmically sway together, just like waves against the shore.

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