Où Est La Vraie Vie? Lyrics in English Raiponce

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Où Est La Vraie Vie? by Raiponce from French to English.

Seven o'clock, I wake up and it's light outside

Quick, I sweep, the house must shine

I wax, I scrub, I tidy up and I chase away the dust

I clean every cupboard

Until seven fifteen

Then I read a book or even two or three

I add a few colors that only I like

Then it's guitar, knitting, cake, and sometimes

I wonder where real life is?

Afternoon means puzzles, darts, and cookies

Paper mâché, ballet, checkmate

Pottery, puppet theater, and candles

Gymnastics, arts and crafts, rope, and Pascal wows me

Then I reread my books, I dream of adventure

I add some color, it's missing, I'm sure

Then I brush, I brush, and brush my hair

In this prison where I grew up

And I wonder and wonder and wonder and wonder

Where's real life hiding?

And tomorrow night the lights will rise

Because it's my birthday

What will that summer evening look like?

I'm older, I should be able to go

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SONG MEANING

“Où Est La Vraie Vie ?” is Raiponce’s bright, fast-paced diary of a girl who knows every corner of her lonely tower yet almost nothing about the world outside. From the very first line she checks the clock at seven o’clock sharp, sweeps, polishes, dusts, then races through an entire catalogue of hobbies: reading, painting, guitar, knitting, baking, puzzles, darts, papier-mâché, ballet, chess, pottery and more. The cheerful rhythm mirrors her frantic routine, but each chorus reveals the real question beating beneath all that activity: Where is real life hiding?

Behind the playful chores and rhymes lies a deeper craving for freedom. Raiponce calls her tower “this prison where I grew up” and pins her hopes on one magical night of floating lights that always appears on her birthday. As that evening approaches she tells herself, I’m older now, surely I can go. The song is both a comedic whirlwind of daily verbs for French learners and a touching anthem of curiosity, courage and the universal wish to step beyond our walls—literal or imagined—and finally start living.

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Raiponce Où Est La Vraie Vie? Lyrics