I'm French, and it's impossible for me to understand anything in that song. So many BIG mistakes, and a very strange accent, for me, the lyrics are unreadable, thanks to the english translation because I was completely lost with the franch one. I don't really like that song. Anyway, Anathema stays a very good band, I like their albums.
@Madbat84 Yeah, I watched an interview with Daniel about the Falling Deeper album (where they left this song instrumental) and he said they were really embarrassed about the "pigeon French" and several mistakes that came in the translation with the original.
@Madbat84 J'adore cette chanson mais effectivement les paroles sont horribles, la première fois que je l'ai entendue j'avais même pas remarquer que c'était du français.
Really amazing. If I listen this song in every single seconds in my life, would it be enough to get rid of that melancholy which I carry for years and years....
La canción es excelente, Anathema era uno de mis grupos favoritos, pero tiene aspecto de que la traducción del inglés al francés la han sacado del traductor de Google, está llena de errores.
Good song in spite of a very bad use of french, both in translation and in pronounciation.
@scouserfourteen yeah it's difficult for me not to make mistakes when I write quickly in a foreign language, as I speak several languages...It's easier when you speak only one.
The lyrics are supposed to say "the way the willow leans over the stream". They user "La voix" which means "the way" but in the same sense as "which way should i go". They should have user La maniere.. which would mean "the way" in the sense they want it. But maybe saying "La maniere dont le saule s'incline au dessus du ruisseau" would not find with the melody haha.. beautiful song anyway ^_^
strange, there was no google translate when they made this song... how could have they managed to write/sing in such an awfully broken French, it is still a mystery to me...
@Vlad31 Si!!! Es una obra maestra. Ya habia olvidado su nombre!!! Hace más de doce años no la escuchaba. Gracias Vlad, me llevaste a una época de mi vida que añoraré siempre.
Ooooh her accent is so cute! ^^ Too bad the lyrics are not really correct in French but who cares? We can understand the mood and what she means just by listening to her voice. Great atmosphere for a song. Sorry for my English, I'm French :).
The fact she has an accent is not the worse thing...
The fact that the lyrics don't make any sense in French, that is bad & stupid.
I mean, if they wanted to make a song in french, they could at least write in a right way and write something with a true meaning, not just the words thew known...
I'm so glad Anathema made songs in french. And who should really care about how the accent is ? Of course I'm french and can hardly recognize what she sings but Art is not limited to an accent, if it was, then everyone would put the shame on Nina Simone when she sings "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (watch?v=TI8F6DbB2cE). If you can not make the difference between Art talent and Real TV programs then you have a serious program.
I would also be curious to see how criticizers here speak a stranger language...
well this is song and not an elementary school french language class. so ... who carres about language mistakes ... the music and the voice are just perfect
well it's not easy to sing in a language you don't understand.i'd like to see all those who say she can't sing in french trying to sing in russian,or some other difficult language they don't know.i understand french and i didn;t recognise a single word but it doesn't matter.it a melodic song.just listen to it.or don't if her pronunciation really others you
She can't sing one word of french...I have asked french people, if they know the language she's singing in, and none of them recognised it as french...what a shame, because the song is actually quite nice....
who fuckin cares about french...Anathema can speak in any language...i would be grateful if theu wrote a song in my language (italian) an wouldn't mind if they did mistakes
From the way they are written in french, the lyrics say: (i recreated the actual sentence structure, missing words and bad grammar included, but its too bad i cannot recreate bad gender choice in english)
The path, the willow leans on top the stream
like a person who gets himself down, yelling for the lover
Yes, her french is horrible, but I STILL love this song! Better than the whole new album by Anathema ("we are here because we're here"), which is kind of a dissappointment. And I'm saying this as a hardcore fan of this band who owns all their regular albums and their rare stuf and travels hundreds of miles to see them live in a small club.
They're still my favorite band, though. And ever will be. I love Anathema.
her accent is so thick, it makes it really hard to understand .... and I'm French !!!! No offence but your transcription of the lyrics is not correct.... it doesn't make any sense in French....
I'm french, I'm an big Anathema fan, if I really don't understand the lyrics (frankly it sound like japanese or spanish for me) I understand the sweet music and like it.
Great song brings back memories. Good work with theslideshos as well. Oh and for those of you whom continue to bitch about the grammer how about you listen to some rap and correct their English? If you don't like it don't listen
SO WHAT??Est le français??ALL THE TIME THE SOVINISTIC PROBLEM THAT U HAVE IN FRANCE...DECIDE TO SPEAK IN ENGLISH OR ΙΝ ANY OTHER LANGUAGE EXCEPT FOR FRENCH FIRSTLY AND THEN TELL US... IT S NOT ENOUGH IF SOMEONE TRIES TO SPEAK FRENCH..U WANT HIM TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK WITH PARISIENNE ACCENT...OMG
@myrtomyrto I agree in a way. But in fact French is a horrible language to learn with many exceptions, many ways to write what you hear etc. A French who learns English will have less problem to deal with.
@Caphka000 Mal prononcer c'est toujours moins grave que mettre un verbe inadapté. Si t'arrives à "voir" sa prononciation, bin bravo, il ne te reste plus qu'à "écouter" les images maintenant.
@Bitteulze L'argumentation est nulle mais je suis d'accord avec toi en gros. En tout cas au niveau des sons purement et simplement cette chanson est très belle.
In my opinion one of the best songs ever made, who cares about the pronouncement. Just listen to the beauty of this song and let your mind flow. I wish there where more songs like this, listen to the music and not the words.
@joepenguus I wouldn't be surprised if they just changed the pronunciation to make it sound more interesting. Sounds more Latin to me than anything else. Which is good, basically, because it adds a certain exotic dimension to the lyrics. I agree with all you said.
I am also french and this is definitely NOT french. She pronounces the french words as if they were english. For exemple, the word "L'amant" is pronounced "L'ey-man" because in english, A = Ey. Well it's supposed to sound like "Ah!" as in "A-pple" ... A-mant. But still, very good song...
@SkinnyAssassin it is French, it's just a, well... moderately butchered version of it haha. I think her native tongue just isn't french, so her pronunciation is off. Great song, and I think part of the appeal to this song for me, is in fact the odd sound of the language.
there's a lot of comments saying this isn't the pronunciation. lol i think someone should post a vid with the correct way cause its really a beautiful song to sing.
Sorry, but I can't understand anything unless I look at the lyrics, and I speak french too.
"dessus du ruisseau" should be "au-dessus", and I don't hear "dessus", I hear, more or less, "dessous", which would mean.. under the stream, heh! (But, well, agreed, french pronounciation is hard)
Also, "se descend", well, I *think* "se descendre" is okay in the context, but "se" wasn't needed, also note that "qui se descend" may be a slang meaning "who kills himself", since I often heard "descends-le" (kill him) in movies from france.
Also, "crying", in english, has two different meanings I think, and should be translated here as "pleurer" (weeping), but is translated as "criant", which only means: screaming!
I'm a 16 years old french and i can say to you that you can understand nothing of the lyrics without read it! worst, every single sentences are wong! i like anathema a lot but if they do a french song, they must to do it right!
I speak french everyday, i'm a Québécois or a Canadian French. And i have to say the English people in general, who learn speak french always pronounce words one after another with a different intonation. Wich is the reality of the english language. In french they have one intonation by sentence. That make the song of her word broken by her accent, but that don't make difference for her, she have a beautiful voice anyway.
esta es una canción que de hecho me trae unos gratos recuerdos de los campamentos que aqui realizamos los metal los headbangers de verdad en lima perú!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My first language is french and I can say it's their failed try to use the french pronounciation correctly that makes the lyrics incomprehensible.All the rest is excellent music though.
UnDiable13, you're right about the massacre of the French language in this song, but I think it's the French who are less tolerant , proof?: you've posted this in French knowing fair well that most people can't speak it, let alone read it. Maybe I should have posted this inRomanian,it would have been only fair,right? :PI myself dread what they've made out of the french words here, it's indeed austentatious, only it doesn't manage to overthorow the beautiful music, voice and the delicat message
Un massacre de la langue française. Si un francophone chante en anglais avec une traduction aussi terrible, il est clair que les anglophones ne seraient pas tolérant. Alors venant d'une artiste, un effort de maitrise de la langue aurait été appréciable car ce n'est pas si compliqué de trouver un traducteur compétent. Le seul point positif, c'est la mélodie. Si cette chanson n'aurait pas de language mais que des sons, ça aurait été respectable. Mais dans ce cas, c'est raté.
I believe that for native French speaker it may be unacceptable. But for me, non French speaker is really nice, mostly, like you have mentioned before for melody.
If it was your language, you would care. But the problem isn't about the accent, cause the problem in here is the traduction and the pronunciation which are only french for the words, not the syntax of the sentences.
I'm in the "who bleedin cares" camp. There are loads of songs with terrible grammar and badly pronounced english (take any song by Immortal for example) but that dosen't detract from the songs.
If I might give a little advice: I would change the bow over the stream, to lean over the brook. My french is not that virtuose, but I think it sounds more poetic, more justice to the - very poetic - lyrics.
I engaged myself to you..
Bathna33 1 month ago
I love Anathema, grretings from the Czech republic:)
Jillian1950 1 month ago
This reminds me on Russian folk songs.
nebojsa0106 2 months ago
♥...
Pswmi666 2 months ago
my favourite... don't give a shit about correctiveness of the lyrics
fartistesmerit 2 months ago
I love to hear Anneke promise something in french with a dutch accent !
thankGodforDavidG 2 months ago
@thankGodforDavidG hahaha
bojanfloyd 1 month ago
This band came from Heavens...
freddquadros 2 months ago 3
I'm French, and it's impossible for me to understand anything in that song. So many BIG mistakes, and a very strange accent, for me, the lyrics are unreadable, thanks to the english translation because I was completely lost with the franch one. I don't really like that song. Anyway, Anathema stays a very good band, I like their albums.
Madbat84 3 months ago
@Madbat84 Yeah, I watched an interview with Daniel about the Falling Deeper album (where they left this song instrumental) and he said they were really embarrassed about the "pigeon French" and several mistakes that came in the translation with the original.
MuikuliWander 3 months ago
@Madbat84 J'adore cette chanson mais effectivement les paroles sont horribles, la première fois que je l'ai entendue j'avais même pas remarquer que c'était du français.
fullevil 2 months ago 2
Je m'ai engagι, je m'ai engagι, je m'ai engagι ΰ vous...
I pledged myself, I pledged myself, I pledged myself to you...
KikiBlackwidow 3 months ago
1)ghareeeba kteer
2)btshbhnee kteeeeer...
tfaj2et be 7ali awwal mrra sme3t-ha.. 5ososi 3n shajar el safsaaf!
thnx for (you) ... you push me towards myself like I never thought it would happen..
I wish this disappears so skies won't hear and destroy...
ahatelover 4 months ago
Really amazing. If I listen this song in every single seconds in my life, would it be enough to get rid of that melancholy which I carry for years and years....
zivrisinek 4 months ago
the version on falling Deeper is amazing !
Edge60606 4 months ago
Man, Darren White has some serious range.
TheEgginess 4 months ago
Magic...Greeks love Anathema!!
ElricMeln1 5 months ago 8
best song ever
rufinjo22 5 months ago
c'est plein de fautes de grammaire mais c'est une belle chanson
laal67 5 months ago
La canción es excelente, Anathema era uno de mis grupos favoritos, pero tiene aspecto de que la traducción del inglés al francés la han sacado del traductor de Google, está llena de errores.
Good song in spite of a very bad use of french, both in translation and in pronounciation.
Karthagus 6 months ago
@Karthagus it's difficult when translating into another language... like spelling pronunciation correctly for example ;)
scouserfourteen 5 months ago
@scouserfourteen yeah it's difficult for me not to make mistakes when I write quickly in a foreign language, as I speak several languages...It's easier when you speak only one.
Karthagus 5 months ago
Language doesn't really matter. Anathema can create magic under every circumstance.
bethanyviollette 6 months ago
esa cancion debería ser mas larga
jamepho 7 months ago
@jamepho Lo bueno dura poco
AlexChristianR 6 months ago in playlist Anathema
The lyrics are supposed to say "the way the willow leans over the stream". They user "La voix" which means "the way" but in the same sense as "which way should i go". They should have user La maniere.. which would mean "the way" in the sense they want it. But maybe saying "La maniere dont le saule s'incline au dessus du ruisseau" would not find with the melody haha.. beautiful song anyway ^_^
EGH666 7 months ago
Goddammit, you people and your pointless arguments ruin anything.
HadrianBlindEye 7 months ago
Fuck you frensh peopls no one cares about your fucking pronouncement.
HaledDo 8 months ago
I'm french and i do not car about the mistakes, it's sincere and beautiful !!
Aksvarn 8 months ago
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UnwieldyFrench 8 months ago
@UnwieldyFrench well, google was found in 1998 and this song is from 1992 album. Another stupid french moron... :-/
anatheman3 7 months ago
@UnwieldyFrench +1 lol
Nykko29 7 months ago
@UnwieldyFrench
Well, don't give lessons if you also make mistakes while translating.
DesolateEverAfterr 5 months ago
@UnwieldyFrench this song was writen in 1993! Google translator didn't exist!
MadCornY 4 months ago
someone has the video vith that gilr singing? I'd like to see it
Zbychoslaw 8 months ago
strange, there was no google translate when they made this song... how could have they managed to write/sing in such an awfully broken French, it is still a mystery to me...
lordhellfjord 9 months ago
I just imagine my self with this girl singing and me playing the guitar , both lost in the deep forest
Vlad31 9 months ago
brilliant, just pure and make me recall an afternoon which was lived in an uncertain summer..
kenvind 10 months ago
la mas hermosa cansion talves echa...........
darkhads4 10 months ago
A quien le gusta la musica en su escencia... Quiza la mejor compocision de esta agrupacion!!!
jucavecer1111 10 months ago
@jucavecer1111 estoy totalmente de acuerdo , tambien te recomiendo la de everwake
Vlad31 9 months ago
@Vlad31 Si!!! Es una obra maestra. Ya habia olvidado su nombre!!! Hace más de doce años no la escuchaba. Gracias Vlad, me llevaste a una época de mi vida que añoraré siempre.
jucavecer1111 9 months ago
Ooooh her accent is so cute! ^^ Too bad the lyrics are not really correct in French but who cares? We can understand the mood and what she means just by listening to her voice. Great atmosphere for a song. Sorry for my English, I'm French :).
SamaraXX 10 months ago
late autumn nights, cold...this song kept my soul warm. it's pure...
aeyrrae 11 months ago
Wuisseau FTW
sparileidlon 11 months ago
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saudade96 11 months ago
wonderful video - and video - thank you - lg gitte
gitte1958 11 months ago
I am transported to an preternatural plane as I listen to this.
ObaNarayanShivaji999 11 months ago
criant pour le monte not criant pout l amant
cherifseddik 1 year ago
I wanna hear Anathema in Swahili
bbeboutuaa 1 year ago 2
thnx for the lyrics!!! in the 90's i never understand the lyrics and i speak french!!!
but the song is one of my favourites of all times
Kensing 1 year ago
Full of merriment, also melancholy, but always melodic.
PeaceNirvana1912 1 year ago
that's another pure music....pure art...my mind just flows trough this song
alirezairis 1 year ago
I Made A Promise ( J'ai Fait Une Promesse ) Great Guitarist Who is he?
whatevergetoverit 1 year ago
@whatevergetoverit Danny cavanagh O_o :P
and probably vincent cavanagh too =)
dlkrdlkr 1 year ago
went i got this album I was on doom death metal only, this song has change my life! and also 40 bucks poor than before, dam this was back in the day.
Brafmah 1 year ago
@Brafmah hahahaha , worth 40 bucks man!!!
listen to more of their new songs , i recommend some of their songs like inner silence , or alternative 4 , still kinda close to doom stuff :D
dlkrdlkr 1 year ago
The fact she has an accent is not the worse thing...
The fact that the lyrics don't make any sense in French, that is bad & stupid.
I mean, if they wanted to make a song in french, they could at least write in a right way and write something with a true meaning, not just the words thew known...
LESIfan 1 year ago
I'm so glad Anathema made songs in french. And who should really care about how the accent is ? Of course I'm french and can hardly recognize what she sings but Art is not limited to an accent, if it was, then everyone would put the shame on Nina Simone when she sings "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (watch?v=TI8F6DbB2cE). If you can not make the difference between Art talent and Real TV programs then you have a serious program.
I would also be curious to see how criticizers here speak a stranger language...
trickrs 1 year ago
esto es muy emo.
JoseFruguletti1972 1 year ago
@JoseFruguletti1972 tu es muy tonto...
Druidess100 1 year ago 2
Hei dudes. Is it french? Or dialect?
YiannisThiakos 1 year ago
i was looking for a more doom sound but this is great aswell, she sings very well
mudcradle 1 year ago
I don't think I could sing as good as her!
joannashea 1 year ago
well this is song and not an elementary school french language class. so ... who carres about language mistakes ... the music and the voice are just perfect
imiocic 1 year ago
well it's not easy to sing in a language you don't understand.i'd like to see all those who say she can't sing in french trying to sing in russian,or some other difficult language they don't know.i understand french and i didn;t recognise a single word but it doesn't matter.it a melodic song.just listen to it.or don't if her pronunciation really others you
ecevampireknight 1 year ago
2x: Là vois le saule qui s'incline au dessus du ruisseau;
Comme une personne qui en descent pour attendre l'amant;
Je me rapelle de l'automne, pressée dans sa révérence;
Je me suis engagée
Je me suis engagée
Je me suis engagée;
À vous.
Je me suis engagée,
Je me suis engagée,
I pledged myself to you
AgemIronn 1 year ago
@AgemIronn
I think at the end she actually sings "I pledge myself to you", and not "pledged"..
That is present, so is it then wrong to say
" je me engageé"??
JaneInsane2 1 year ago
@JaneInsane2
if its present, its: Je m'engage
AgemIronn 8 months ago
@JaneInsane2 if it's present, it is "je m'engage"
laal67 5 months ago
at first i did not know it was french. mon dieu. i thought it was some flamand old language
ahonen111 1 year ago
i love it !
does any one has a link for a free mp3 download ?
ver5111 1 year ago
She can't sing one word of french...I have asked french people, if they know the language she's singing in, and none of them recognised it as french...what a shame, because the song is actually quite nice....
whoopiewitch 1 year ago
who fuckin cares about french...Anathema can speak in any language...i would be grateful if theu wrote a song in my language (italian) an wouldn't mind if they did mistakes
giub81 1 year ago 19
From the way they are written in french, the lyrics say: (i recreated the actual sentence structure, missing words and bad grammar included, but its too bad i cannot recreate bad gender choice in english)
The path, the willow leans on top the stream
like a person who gets himself down, yelling for the lover
remembers me of fall before you kneeled
i've plegded myself
to you
EGH666 1 year ago
Periergo kommati den tairiazei poly me ta ypoloipa tou Serenades. Min ksexname oti paizan katharo Doom Metal tote..
Neueregel 1 year ago
Je m'ai engagée. Je ME SUIS engagée !
ça me rappelle le sketch des nuls,
-vous pouvez faire confiance à le chat machine sans phosphate
-AU chat machine !
bulbizarrre 1 year ago 2
j'avais pas vu le reste, en fait on dirait une traduction google :p
bulbizarrre 1 year ago
putain on comprend rien !!! o_O
gaelnirvana 1 year ago
love this song i almost teared up when i first heard it
kmfdm5 1 year ago
je m'ai engagee a vous...
Μιλαει στην καρδια..
bethanyviollette 1 year ago 3
La "cantante" di questa magnifica canzone credo si chiami Ruth Wilson, qualcuno ha info su di lei ? Non c'è alcuna traccia di biografia -.-
libicocco81 1 year ago
It's Gaelic, not French nor English.
Blueyefinity 1 year ago
@Blueyefinity
Bullshit. Of course it's french! Read the lyrics in the description.
soulstormblues1977 1 year ago
@soulstormblues1977
its french with a lot of horribles mistakes.
But the effort is good
AgemIronn 1 year ago
Yes, her french is horrible, but I STILL love this song! Better than the whole new album by Anathema ("we are here because we're here"), which is kind of a dissappointment. And I'm saying this as a hardcore fan of this band who owns all their regular albums and their rare stuf and travels hundreds of miles to see them live in a small club.
They're still my favorite band, though. And ever will be. I love Anathema.
soulstormblues1977 1 year ago 3
her accent is so thick, it makes it really hard to understand .... and I'm French !!!! No offence but your transcription of the lyrics is not correct.... it doesn't make any sense in French....
plexizebra 1 year ago
beautiful outro!
mirzarayhan 1 year ago
Woh, her french is horrible:O
PhilFilth 1 year ago
watch?v=zZMGFtrF_z4
sacrus77 1 year ago
Never trust Google translation!
The lyrics mean nothing in French.
villavali 1 year ago
I'm french, I'm an big Anathema fan, if I really don't understand the lyrics (frankly it sound like japanese or spanish for me) I understand the sweet music and like it.
FER0TH 1 year ago 2
After hearing this I can die now
Vlad31 1 year ago
wow. have always loved this song, and these pictures are so beautiful & perfect...thank you!
gothgirlofdespair 1 year ago
Great song brings back memories. Good work with theslideshos as well. Oh and for those of you whom continue to bitch about the grammer how about you listen to some rap and correct their English? If you don't like it don't listen
bloodymess008 1 year ago
Fantastica la voce :)
Questo brano è una vera sorpresa rispetto agli altri dell'album in cui si sente solo growl
libicocco81 1 year ago
merci, très beau^^
dudu45400 1 year ago
Elle ne sait point prononcer le Francais a ce que je peut voir!!!!!
Caphka000 1 year ago 6
SO WHAT??Est le français??ALL THE TIME THE SOVINISTIC PROBLEM THAT U HAVE IN FRANCE...DECIDE TO SPEAK IN ENGLISH OR ΙΝ ANY OTHER LANGUAGE EXCEPT FOR FRENCH FIRSTLY AND THEN TELL US... IT S NOT ENOUGH IF SOMEONE TRIES TO SPEAK FRENCH..U WANT HIM TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK WITH PARISIENNE ACCENT...OMG
myrtomyrto 1 year ago
@myrtomyrto I agree in a way. But in fact French is a horrible language to learn with many exceptions, many ways to write what you hear etc. A French who learns English will have less problem to deal with.
Aksvarn 1 year ago
@Aksvarn
yes, im french and its fucking true ;) My english is horrible but i never really learn it.
AgemIronn 1 year ago
@Caphka000 Mal prononcer c'est toujours moins grave que mettre un verbe inadapté. Si t'arrives à "voir" sa prononciation, bin bravo, il ne te reste plus qu'à "écouter" les images maintenant.
Bitteulze 1 year ago
@Bitteulze L'argumentation est nulle mais je suis d'accord avec toi en gros. En tout cas au niveau des sons purement et simplement cette chanson est très belle.
Aksvarn 1 year ago
@Caphka000 elle parle en provensale, n'est pas?
06ando 1 year ago
@Caphka000 ...et toi tu ne sais point l'écrire si je peux m'exprimer ainsi.
TartifletteMaster 1 year ago
@Caphka000 et qu'est ce qu'on s'en fout en fait :) fais nous apprécier ton superbe accent dans d'autres langues qu'on rigole!
anizar 1 year ago
@Caphka000 Et toi tu ne sais point l’écrire !
orgueluse 1 year ago
In my opinion one of the best songs ever made, who cares about the pronouncement. Just listen to the beauty of this song and let your mind flow. I wish there where more songs like this, listen to the music and not the words.
joepenguus 1 year ago 42
@joepenguus I wouldn't be surprised if they just changed the pronunciation to make it sound more interesting. Sounds more Latin to me than anything else. Which is good, basically, because it adds a certain exotic dimension to the lyrics. I agree with all you said.
midairman 1 year ago
@joepenguus being best is relative ;) but it is nice anyway ;)
showmelove35 1 year ago
@joepenguus Well said,,great song from an unbelievable band.Respect.
amadain462 1 year ago
I am also french and this is definitely NOT french. She pronounces the french words as if they were english. For exemple, the word "L'amant" is pronounced "L'ey-man" because in english, A = Ey. Well it's supposed to sound like "Ah!" as in "A-pple" ... A-mant. But still, very good song...
SkinnyAssassin 2 years ago
I'd bet on some Gaelic or Celtic dialect. They has both english pronounciation and french-like sound.
xerpenta 2 years ago
@SkinnyAssassin it is French, it's just a, well... moderately butchered version of it haha. I think her native tongue just isn't french, so her pronunciation is off. Great song, and I think part of the appeal to this song for me, is in fact the odd sound of the language.
Deleriumae 1 year ago
there's a lot of comments saying this isn't the pronunciation. lol i think someone should post a vid with the correct way cause its really a beautiful song to sing.
inthismoment1313 2 years ago
it s verry nice..anathema is magic.. Nomade Steps is on UTUBE just for you, listen
slayergone 2 years ago
Nice music and great video. I like it very much!
BonzoMason12 2 years ago
it does not sound like french meaby english version would be better hmm
Annyway I love it!
Majazura13 2 years ago
i teach french in france i love anathema
BUT it makes no fucking sense (unless it s pretended real creative poetry) you dig?
nicolasgrasser 2 years ago
I'm french..... that doesn't sound french, but I love her prononciation! It still sounds well.
TheMichy 2 years ago
magistrale composition
kmach18 2 years ago
estos temas bóticos son los que menos me gustan de Anathema. las voces son bellas, debo admitir, pero prefiero el lado más árido y dum
ErGroser0 2 years ago
My french friend actually went "What language is this supposed to be in??" haha.
Save the obvious bad french she said it was a beautiful and haunting song, and I agree :)
Cal887 2 years ago
Oh my, how i remember to be so impressed with this beautifull song in the 90s when i got this cd...
lvsitiwdr 2 years ago
looks like they weren't really thinking at the time when they made this particular song ;)
startraveller01 2 years ago
I love this song, even though the lyrics are not really french. Who cares? Just think of it as elvish or something... :D
soulstormblues1977 2 years ago
That's true, Anathema did a very WEIRD thing. I am french, this is very bad x)
Anathema is one of my favorite bands, and if this song is great musically, the lyrics don't make sense AT ALL XD
mzelleZerbinette 2 years ago
Also, it's "l'automne", not "d'automne"
"ta révérence" and not "ton révérence"
"je m'ai engagée" and not "je me suis engagée"
And, well, "pressée dans ta révérence" ? This means "hurried in your reverence".. don't even know it it makes sense in english.
Anyway, nice idea, and nice english lyrics, really dark (almost lugubrious) and melancholic song!
LeDechaine 2 years ago
Sorry, but I can't understand anything unless I look at the lyrics, and I speak french too.
"dessus du ruisseau" should be "au-dessus", and I don't hear "dessus", I hear, more or less, "dessous", which would mean.. under the stream, heh! (But, well, agreed, french pronounciation is hard)
LeDechaine 2 years ago
Also, "se descend", well, I *think* "se descendre" is okay in the context, but "se" wasn't needed, also note that "qui se descend" may be a slang meaning "who kills himself", since I often heard "descends-le" (kill him) in movies from france.
Also, "crying", in english, has two different meanings I think, and should be translated here as "pleurer" (weeping), but is translated as "criant", which only means: screaming!
LeDechaine 2 years ago
great song , thanks for posting!!!
artemorbid 2 years ago
quit whining about the song, its a great song. Just leave it at that rather then going on how the grammar is wrong. Don't be all uppity about it
prodigy45 2 years ago 2
I'm a 16 years old french and i can say to you that you can understand nothing of the lyrics without read it! worst, every single sentences are wong! i like anathema a lot but if they do a french song, they must to do it right!
fraki 2 years ago 2
I'm sure anathema knew what they were saying
The lyrics look fine in french
The translation is just off
CynicalMayhem 2 years ago
Great job, you entertained me well.
noddy176 2 years ago
beauu!!
KrytenVIII 2 years ago
there are some mistakes in the song..they should consulting a french person before writing the song!!!
jazeera986 2 years ago
@jazeera986
who is caring about it :) still magnificent song even with mistakes! :)
Anarzee90 2 years ago
can some translate it into turkish cos i like this song very much but i dont know what it means :(
tiredpessimist01 2 years ago
(:hey!I found the translation!( i am not sure that it is right...i found it in the internet..sorry for my english..i am from greece)
deVilanGelmuHaaha 2 years ago
Lyrics:
Orada, dere üzerinde, söğüt yay görmek
comme une personne qui se descend, criant pour l'amant. kim aşağı bir kişi, sevgilisi için ağlıyor gibi.
Me rapelle d'automne, presse dans ton reverence, Reminds Me Fall bültenleri sizin saygı içinde,
je m'ai engagee a vous... Ben ... başlattığınız love me
deVilanGelmuHaaha 2 years ago
[Edebi Çeviri]
There, look, the willow clings over the river, Orada, bak nehir üzerinde söğüt Clings,
Like a person who bows down, crying for the lover. Kim aşağı yay bir kişi, sevgilisi için ağlıyor gibi.
Reminds me of Autumn, [when] you were kneeling, Reminds me of Autumn, [zaman] sen, diz çökmüş edildi
I engaged myself to you... Seninle kendimi meşgul ...
deVilanGelmuHaaha 2 years ago
I speak french everyday, i'm a Québécois or a Canadian French. And i have to say the English people in general, who learn speak french always pronounce words one after another with a different intonation. Wich is the reality of the english language. In french they have one intonation by sentence. That make the song of her word broken by her accent, but that don't make difference for her, she have a beautiful voice anyway.
Act4soluce 2 years ago
this band...is the definition of beautyfull music...they are....trully genious.
morbidiussexuality 2 years ago
la voix la saule s'incline dessu du ruisseau
menelooo25 2 years ago
esta es una canción que de hecho me trae unos gratos recuerdos de los campamentos que aqui realizamos los metal los headbangers de verdad en lima perú!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
animatesandra 2 years ago
uwielbiam ten zespół!!!
weworka666 2 years ago 2
seranades was an lp the ep was crest fallen
voteveg 2 years ago
My first language is french and I can say it's their failed try to use the french pronounciation correctly that makes the lyrics incomprehensible.All the rest is excellent music though.
yourbesteyes 2 years ago
Have you ever learn music in school ? It's acceptable...
Amorphine 2 years ago
Moi perso, je suis français, et j ai rien compris! : ( DOMMAGE!!
titeufauplat 2 years ago
well, i dont speak french, but one day i will.
maybe next year, i hope :)
rodrigocabelo 2 years ago
UnDiable13, you're right about the massacre of the French language in this song, but I think it's the French who are less tolerant , proof?: you've posted this in French knowing fair well that most people can't speak it, let alone read it. Maybe I should have posted this inRomanian,it would have been only fair,right? :PI myself dread what they've made out of the french words here, it's indeed austentatious, only it doesn't manage to overthorow the beautiful music, voice and the delicat message
juliadamon 2 years ago 2
el acento podrá no ser muy bueno, pero la voz de la chica es genial
gercaifan77 2 years ago
Un massacre de la langue française. Si un francophone chante en anglais avec une traduction aussi terrible, il est clair que les anglophones ne seraient pas tolérant. Alors venant d'une artiste, un effort de maitrise de la langue aurait été appréciable car ce n'est pas si compliqué de trouver un traducteur compétent. Le seul point positif, c'est la mélodie. Si cette chanson n'aurait pas de language mais que des sons, ça aurait été respectable. Mais dans ce cas, c'est raté.
UnDiable13 2 years ago
I believe that for native French speaker it may be unacceptable. But for me, non French speaker is really nice, mostly, like you have mentioned before for melody.
ironiec1 2 years ago
Where the hell does this song come from? I thought I own all Anathema albums. Well, I love it!
soulstormblues1977 2 years ago
Album is called: Anathema - Serenades.
tenloginbedziewolny 2 years ago
it is from the serenades EP before they were mainstream
labargejr 2 years ago
Amazing voice !! Amazing Melodies !!
Who F@#kin' care about bad accent ?
incredibiletizio 2 years ago
If it was your language, you would care. But the problem isn't about the accent, cause the problem in here is the traduction and the pronunciation which are only french for the words, not the syntax of the sentences.
UnDiable13 2 years ago
I'm in the "who bleedin cares" camp. There are loads of songs with terrible grammar and badly pronounced english (take any song by Immortal for example) but that dosen't detract from the songs.
locusmortis 2 years ago
bad accent,it sounds like japanese or an asian language,not french.Still got to give them credit for the song,it relaxes me
adlxs 2 years ago
Bad accent
Born2Gain 2 years ago
The play better music than they write french, that's for sure. ^^
Mespheber 2 years ago
es divino este tema
Cigana86 2 years ago
Very funny ^^
I'm french and i listen anathema for a long time, but i have never listened this song, and the accent is very funny for a french person ^^
Moustikk38 2 years ago 2
The way the willow leans over the brook Like a
person dropping down, crying for his lover The way
the willow leans over the brook Like a person
dropping down, crying for his lover Reminds me of
last autumn when, bowing down, I pledged myself, I
pledged myself, I pledged myself to you. I pledged
myself, I pledged myself, I pledged myself to you.
labargejr 2 years ago
here is another translation it has slang in it some words are not french
The way the willow leans over the brook
Like a person dropping down, crying for his lover
The way the willow leans over the brook
Like a person dropping down, crying for his lover
Reminds me of last autumn when, bowing down,
I pledged myself, I pledged myself, I pledged myself to you.
I pledged myself, I pledged myself, I pledged myself to you.
labargejr 2 years ago
The, sees, the willow inclines itself over stream, as a person that descends itself, screaming for the lover
The, sees, the willow inclines itself over stream, as a person that descends itself, screaming for the lover
Me fall rapelle, in a hurry in your reverence, I have myself engagee I have myself engagee I have myself
engagee has you...
I have myself engagee I have myself engagee I pledged myself à you.
labargejr 2 years ago
I love this song !
BlackDay0666 2 years ago 2
If I might give a little advice: I would change the bow over the stream, to lean over the brook. My french is not that virtuose, but I think it sounds more poetic, more justice to the - very poetic - lyrics.
WritherInSilence 2 years ago