Lyrics of Le tissu - Jeanne Cherhal

Le tissu (original)

Le balancier des hanches
La poitrine qui penche
Flou souvenir des pleins des creux
Les doigts longs les mains blanches
Disparus sous les manches
Rideau tir sur les cheveux
La bouche qu’on enterre
Qui ne doit que se taire
Le monde interdit pour les yeux
Sur ce corps qui s’efface
J’ai regard en face
L’hypocrisie offerte Dieu
J’ai attendu attendu
Et je l’ai aperue
La femme cache sous le tissu
Elle semblait absente
Sous sa toile de tente
Sous son camouflage aguerri
Une infime chanette
La retenait secrte
Prisonnire de son mari
Dans cet avion norme
Qui survolait les formes
Dcoupes du golfe Persique
Cette femme fantme
Linceul et monochrome
Me rendait triste c’est classique
J’ai attendu attendu
Et je l’ai aperue
La femme cache sous le tissu
Depuis Abu Dhabi
Elle gardait l’habit
Intgral et ne parlait pas
Mais surveillait le sol
Qui filait sous le vol
Comme une route sous les pas
Et soudain elle prit
La main de son mari
Il s’tait pass quelque chose
Elle arracha le voile
Jeta la longue toile
Et je vis sa mtamorphose
Les cheveux librs
Les genoux desserrs
Elle tait redevenue femme
Nous venions de franchir
Les portes de l’empire
Et les barrires de sa flamme
Elle embrassa velours
Son mari son amour
Que j’avais pris pour un gelier
J’ai vu qu’elle tait libre
En fragile quilibre
Entre la chane et le collier
J’ai vu qu’elle tait belle
Au nom de toutes celles
Qui n’ont pas pu se dlier
J’ai attendu attendu
Et elle est apparue
La femme vade de son tissu

(translation)

The pendulum of the hips
The leaning chest
Fuzzy memory of the fullness of the hollows
The long fingers the white hands
Disappeared under the sleeves
Curtain shot on the hair
The mouth we bury
Who must only be silent
The forbidden world for the eyes
On this fading body
I looked in the face
The hypocrisy offered by God
I waited waited
And I saw her
The woman hides under the fabric
She seemed absent
Under his tent
Under his seasoned camouflage
A tiny chain
Kept her secret
Prisoner of her husband
In this plane standard
Who flew over the forms
Persian Gulf Cutouts
This ghost woman
Shroud and Monochrome
Made me sad that's classic
I waited waited
And I saw her
The woman hides under the fabric
From Abu Dhabi
She kept the dress
Full and did not speak
But watched the ground
Which slipped under the flight
Like a road underfoot
And suddenly she took
Her husband's hand
Something had happened
She tore off the veil
Throw down the long web
And I saw his metamorphosis
Free hair
loose knees
She had become a woman again
We had just crossed
The Gates of Empire
And the bars of his flame
She kissed velvet
Her husband her love
That I took for a jellier
I saw she was free
In delicate balance
Between the chain and the necklace
I saw that she was beautiful
On behalf of all those
Who couldn't untie
I waited waited
And she appeared
The woman wanders from her cloth