À Fleur De Toi Lyrics in English Vitaa , Slimane

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song À Fleur De Toi by Vitaa from French to English.

The days go by but it doesn't matter

I find it so hard to live

Drunk, from this scent so different from yours

Worse, I've counted every minute that keeps me with her

As if I were my own prisoner

It's been almost a year since he saved me from you

Often, I wonder where I would be for you

Often, I wonder what you're doing

Where you are, who you love

Get out of my thoughts

I changed my address, my number, even though

I threw away your letters and your flaws, even though

I pretended to have found the strength

I keep deep inside me

Everything you loved about me

I try to forget you with someone else

Time doesn't seem to erase your mistakes

I try but nothing works, I can't, I don't want to

I can't do it, I don't love him like you

I try to heal myself with someone else

Who vainly tries to make up for your mistakes

He seems so perfect but nothing works, I give up

I can't, I don't love him like you

He, he, he tried to console me

Even though he doesn't have your words or your past

It's true but he doesn't have your taste for partying

For the night, for others, for everything I hate

She dried all my tears, you know

She picked up the pieces you broke

And he settled all your debts, your deceptions, your scribbles

Everything you left me

He loves me like crazy and knows me by heart

She tells me 'I love you' sometimes for hours

But he doesn't smell like you

Why do I smell you in his arms

Get out of my thoughts

I try to forget you with someone else

Time doesn't seem to erase your mistakes

I try but nothing works, I can't, I don't want to

I can't do it, I don't love him like you

I try to heal myself with another

Who tries in vain to atone for your faults

It seems so perfect but nothing works, I give in

I can't, I don't love him like you

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SONG MEANING

“À Fleur De Toi” literally means “Close to the surface of you” – the feeling you get when an old romance still tingles on your skin. In this passionate duet, Vitaa and Slimane step into the shoes of two ex-lovers who have tried everything to move on. New partners, new addresses, even new phone numbers… yet the ghost of the past keeps popping up in everyday scents, songs, and memories. Each line is a tug-of-war between reason (“I should forget you”) and raw emotion (“I can’t, I don’t want to”).

The song paints heartbreak like a stubborn perfume that refuses to fade. The new partner is caring, perfect on paper, but simply “doesn’t smell like you.” Every loving gesture feels like patchwork over a wound that refuses to heal. By the end, both singers admit defeat: they are prisoners of yesterday’s love, still à fleur de toi. This makes the track a bittersweet anthem about how the heart ignores logic and how some loves linger no matter how hard we try to erase them.

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Vitaa À Fleur De Toi Lyrics