Ça Me Regarde Lyrics in English Yannick Noah

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Ça Me Regarde by Yannick Noah from French to English.
Can I close my eyelids
A whole life until the cemetery
Can I open my door
Only for me to go out
Can I rely on myself
Without counting those who bear their pain
To look at them without even seeing them
And to look at myself in a mirror
It concerns me
It concerns me
It concerns you
It concerns you
It concerns us all
It splashes us
The intelligent, the common people
The weak and the great
The yellows and the whites
The blacks and the reds
And everything that moves
Can I pretend to believe
That it never rains on my sidewalk
Could I say that I have forgotten
When my last hour has struck
Is happiness also complete
If only mine can enjoy it
Is the song of men in distress
Not the most beautiful love song
It concerns me
It concerns me
It concerns you
It concerns you
It concerns us all
It splashes us
The intelligent, the common people
The weak and the great
The yellows and the whites
The blacks and the reds
And everything that moves
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
It concerns me
It concerns me
It concerns us all
It splashes us
The intelligent
The common people
The weak and the great
The yellows and the whites
The blacks and the reds
And everything that moves
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SONG MEANING

Yannick Noah’s “Ça Me Regarde” is a wake-up call wrapped in a sunny reggae-pop groove. The singer playfully asks if he can keep his eyes shut “all his life until the cemetery,” or pretend it never rains on his sidewalk. With these cheeky questions, Noah shines a light on how easy it is to hide behind our own comfort. Every time the chorus repeats Ça me regarde (“That’s my business”) he flips the phrase on its head: caring about others is our business.

The second half of the song widens the lens. Noah lists everyone who gets “splashed” by life’s troubles — “the clever, the little people, the weak and the great, yellow and white, black and red, and everything that moves.” His message is simple yet powerful: real happiness is incomplete if only “our own” enjoy it, and the most beautiful love song is the one sung when people rush to help each other. “Ça Me Regarde” turns empathy into a catchy anthem, urging listeners to open their doors, open their eyes, and recognize that what affects one of us truly affects us all.

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