Twice voted as "Canada's Favourite Children's Artist of the Year" (CMW Awar… Read Full Bio ↴Twice voted as "Canada's Favourite Children's Artist of the Year" (CMW Awards/MuchMusic/MTV Canada), this Warner Music artist juggles a teaching career with sold-out concert tours throughout the world, annually presenting keynote addresses and workshops at major Foreign language conferences, as well as writing and producing new material. He has authored and composed for leading publishing companies including Glencoe McGraw-Hill, Pearson Ed., Thomson Nelson, Oxford University Press, Prentice Hall Ginn and Denmark's Forlag Malling Beck. Visit: www.educorock.com for more information on this artist.

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Etienne Lyrics

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Il veut dire fuir
Navire, chambre rue des Martyrs
Des irs, désire toi, déesse
Désire toi allongée
Incandescent, indécent, turgecent
Tu m'inspires et j'expire de fous secrets, impurs, et pire
Que Dieu n'entend pas

Irrégulière éprise
Resserrant son emprise
Moi, irréfléchi, offert
Pour saison en enfer
Incandescents, indécents, tout puissants
Tu t'exprimes et m'imprimes de fous baisers, impurs, impies

Que Dieu ne voit pas
We're flying to the moon...

Overall Meaning

In the song "Des Ir" by Etienne Daho, the singer talks about a desire for an unknown person. He wants to escape with this person, and mentions a ship and a room on Rue des Martyrs. The person being desired is addressed as a goddess and the singer wants her to desire him while laying down. He talks about the passion between them, calling it incandescent, indecent, and turgescent. The singer draws inspiration from these furtive, impure secrets that even God cannot hear.

The second verse reveals that the person being desired has a hold over the singer, who is willing to go to hell for them. The passion between them is powerful and all-encompassing, with the person being able to express themselves and imprint themselves upon the singer. These kisses are also impure and impious, which God cannot see.

Line by Line Meaning

Il veut dire fuir
He wants to escape

Navire, chambre rue des Martyrs
Ship, room on Martyrs street

Des irs, désire toi, déesse
Desires, desire you, goddess

Désire toi allongée
Desire you lying down

Incandescent, indécent, turgecent
Incandescent, indecent, swelling

Tu m'inspires et j'expire de fous secrets, impurs, et pire
You inspire me and I exhale crazy, impure and worse secrets

Que Dieu n'entend pas
That God does not hear

Irrégulière éprise
Irregular love

Resserrant son emprise
Tightening its grip

Moi, irréfléchi, offert
Me, thoughtless, offered

Pour saison en enfer
For a season in hell