France Gall (born Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall on 9 October, 1947 in … Read Full Bio ↴France Gall (born Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall on 9 October, 1947 in Paris, France - died 7 January 2018) was an influential singer who performed for many decades. She notably represented Luxembourg in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with "Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son"; that winning song was just one of many that she performed which had been written by Serge Gainsbourg. Her career spanned roughly forty years, primarily in France, but she was best known over the world for the songs which she performed during the 60s, many of them a part of the ye-ye style. She sang in both French and English.

Besides the highly successful "Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son", she also notably sung "Les Sucettes" and "Baby Pop". In France, she was perhaps more known for the chanson songs she sang in the late-70s through the mid-80s, many of them written by her husband, Michel Berger, who died in 1992. In 1987, she had some additional international success with her Ella Fitzgerald tribute "Ella, elle l'a". She still recorded music into the new millennium.

France Gall died on 7 january 2018 at age 70 in a hospital in Paris.

Nous Ne Sommes Pas Des Anges
France Gall Lyrics

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Nous ne sommes pas des anges
Les anges du paradis
Trouveraient ce monde bien étrange
S'ils descendaient jusqu'ici
Non nous n'avons rien des anges
Des anges du paradis
Laissez-les au ciel là-haut les anges
La terre n'est pas le paradis

Les garçons on dirait des filles
Avec leurs cheveux longs
Quant à nous les filles
On dirait des garçons
Les filles en pantalons

Nous ne sommes pas des anges
Les anges du paradis
Trouveraient ce monde bien étrange
S'ils descendaient jusqu'ici
Non nous n'avons rien des anges
Des anges du paradis
Laissez-les au ciel là-haut les anges
La terre n'est pas le paradis

Les garçons embrassent les filles
Les filles en pantalons
Quant à nous les filles
Nous aimons les garçons
Avec leurs cheveux longs

Les garçons embrassent les filles
Les filles en pantalons
Quant à nous les filles
Nous aimons les garçons
Avec leurs cheveux longs

Nous ne sommes pas des anges
Les anges du paradis
Trouveraient ce monde bien étrange
S'ils descendaient jusqu'ici
Non nous n'avons rien des anges
Des anges du paradis

Laissez-les au ciel là-haut les anges
La terre n'est pas le paradis

Overall Meaning

The song "Nous ne sommes pas des anges" by France Gall talks about how humans are flawed and different from the angels in heaven. The opening lines of the song state that if the angels from heaven were to come down to earth, they would find this world quite strange. The singer then goes on to say that we humans are not angels and cannot be compared to them. We are different and have our own flaws.

The song then talks about the gender roles that society has assigned humans. The boys in the song look like girls because of their long hair, and the girls look like boys as they wear pants. The singer then talks about how society should not try to conform to these gender norms and should instead let everyone express themselves as they want to. The song ends with the singer expressing that Earth is not heaven, and humans cannot be angels.

Line by Line Meaning

Nous ne sommes pas des anges
We are not angels

Les anges du paradis
The angels of heaven

Trouveraient ce monde bien étrange
Would find this world very strange

S'ils descendaient jusqu'ici
If they came down here

Non nous n'avons rien des anges
No, we have nothing angelic

Laissez-les au ciel là-haut les anges
Leave them in the sky up there, angels

La terre n'est pas le paradis
The earth is not paradise

Les garçons on dirait des filles
Boys look like girls

Avec leurs cheveux longs
With their long hair

Quant à nous les filles
As for us girls

On dirait des garçons
We look like boys