Amants Destroy
Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine Lyrics


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Fille-fleur sauvage acidulée
Bouche cramoisie, jupe retroussée
Scratchée sur la banquette arrière
D'un cabriolet Roadmaster

Transfert d'orage, émeute sexuelle
Sous la rumeur des immortels
Quand ses lèvres arrachent un par un
Les boutons de mon 501

Détruire, détruire, toujours dit-elle
Saboter l'oeil universel
Détruire, détruire, toujours dit-elle
Faire payer ses grotesques erreurs
Au boss cannibale supérieur

Travail de nuit, petit matin
Jouissance, violence entre ses seins
Visage éclaboussé de nacre
Amour, bagatelle et massacre

Sur les fusibles du hasard
Entre les quarks et les quasars
Elle détruira son teddy boy
Cunnibilingue et lousy toy

Détruire, détruire, toujours dit-elle
Saboter l'oeil universel
Détruire, détruire, toujours dit-elle




Faire payer ses grotesques erreurs
Au boss cannibale supérieur

Overall Meaning

In "Amants Destroy," Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine paints a vivid picture of a wild and rebellious woman with acid-tongued wit and an insatiable desire to destroy. The lyrics describe her in detail, from her cramoisie lips and retroussée skirt to her presence in the back seat of a cabriolet Roadmaster. There is an electrifying sexual tension between the woman and Thiéfaine, with hints of an imminent storm and an immortal frenzy building around them.


As they become intimate, the woman urges Thiéfaine to destroy, sabotage, and exact revenge for her "grotesque errors" on the cannibalistic boss who rules over them all. The woman seems to embody a spirit of chaos, working through the night to achieve both pleasure and violence. She is a lover, a destroyer, and a force of nature all at once, and Thiéfaine is entranced by her even as he feels the danger of her power.


Overall, "Amants Destroy" captures the heady feeling of being swept up in a moment of rebellion and passion, with Thiéfaine and the woman tearing down the walls of convention to embrace their wilder, more primal selves.


Line by Line Meaning

Fille-fleur sauvage acidulée
A wild and acidic flower girl


Bouche cramoisie, jupe retroussée
With crimson lips and a raised skirt


Scratchée sur la banquette arrière
Scratched on the backseat


D'un cabriolet Roadmaster
Of a Roadmaster convertible


Transfert d'orage, émeute sexuelle
Stormy transfer, sexual riot


Sous la rumeur des immortels
Amidst the murmurs of the immortals


Quand ses lèvres arrachent un par un
When her lips pluck one by one


Les boutons de mon 501
The buttons of my 501 jeans


Détruire, détruire, toujours dit-elle
Destroy, destroy, she always says


Saboter l'oeil universel
Sabotage the universal eye


Faire payer ses grotesques erreurs
Make her grotesque mistakes pay


Au boss cannibale supérieur
To the superior cannibal boss


Travail de nuit, petit matin
Night work, early morning


Jouissance, violence entre ses seins
Pleasure, violence between her breasts


Visage éclaboussé de nacre
Face splattered with mother-of-pearl


Amour, bagatelle et massacre
Love, trifle, and massacre


Sur les fusibles du hasard
On the fuses of chance


Entre les quarks et les quasars
Between quarks and quasars


Elle détruira son teddy boy
She will destroy her teddy boy


Cunnibilingue et lousy toy
Cunnilingual and lousy toy




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