Rose hybride de thé [English translation]

My eye fixed to your iris

I contemplate, like Narcissus

In these mirrors between your temples

The dark reflection of my vices

Lying on the willow

You all my beech poplar (= popular being)

I gradually unfolded it

Before your charms and your words

Madam tea-rose hybrid

Beautiful nights at dusk

Far from regrets and scruples

A few perfect petals thyme (= my complexion)

Madam tea-rose hybrid

I don’t want to look up

I only have two of us

Just a very vaporous memory

How do you want me to mint (=lie)

Your dreams are gnawing my thoughts

Your thorns are for me

Yet you were so charming

Do not look broom (= embarrassed)

It’s just a coincindence that my hands tremble

From the moment we are together

Entwined under a conifer (=same)

Madam tea-rose hybrid

Beautiful nights at dusk

Far from regrets and scruples

A few perfect petals thyme (= my complexion)

Madam tea-rose hybrid

I don’t want to look up

I only have two of us

Just a very vaporous memory

Madam tea-rose hybrid

Madam tea-rose hybrid

Madam tea-rose hybrid

Madam tea-rose hybrid

(This is based on an anonymous translation at Lyric Wiki, however I think that person's first language was not English. This song is full of puns on nature)

• Artist:Émilie Simon
• Album:Végétal