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Christmas at the Closed Aquarium

“Christmas at the Closed Aquarium” brings together French and English. Its musical genre is Soul.

Lyrics & translation ↓
Christmas at the Closed Aquarium

French ↔ English

About this song

The first paired lines are “J'essuyais les vitres du dernier bassin.” and “I wiped the glass of the final tank.”. Read the complete lyrics in both languages below, then follow the same phrases in the player.

An aquarium cleaner spends Christmas beside sleeping fish and finds her family arriving with dinner in labeled lunchboxes. Christmas soul, warm piano, melodic bass, restrained sleigh bells, rich strings and expressive clear solo voice, distinct original refrain

Learn with this song

Listen to each line and compare its translation. Use Twin to switch to the same phrase in the other language; use Echo to recall its meaning before revealing the translation.

Twin ⇄Echo ✧Three words at a time.

Two languages. One melody.

Lyrics & translation

FrenchEnglish

Verse

J'essuyais les vitres du dernier bassin.

I wiped the glass of the final tank.

Dehors, Noël vidait les rues du port.

Outside, Christmas emptied the harbour streets.

Mon dîner attendait dans une boîte sans nom.

My dinner waited in a nameless box.

Les poissons glissaient comme des pensées qui dorment.

The fish glided like sleeping thoughts.

Chorus

Noël brille en bleu derrière les vitres.

Christmas shines blue behind the glass.

Je garde la lumière pour ceux qui restent.

I keep the light for those who stay.

Un repas peut traverser une ville silencieuse.

A meal can cross a silent city.

Et trouver ma chaise grâce à ce geste attentionné.

And find my chair through someone's thoughtful gesture.

Verse

Le gardien frappa trois fois à ma porte.

The guard knocked three times at my door.

Ma famille attendait près de l'entrée du personnel.

My family waited near the staff entrance.

Ils avaient prévenu pour partager ma pause.

They had called ahead to share my break.

Chacun portait une boîte avec une étiquette nouvelle.

Each carried a box with a new label.

Chorus

Noël brille en bleu derrière les vitres.

Christmas shines blue behind the glass.

Je garde la lumière pour ceux qui restent.

I keep the light for those who stay.

Un repas peut traverser une ville silencieuse.

A meal can cross a silent city.

Et trouver ma chaise grâce à ce geste attentionné.

And find my chair through someone's thoughtful gesture.

Bridge

Sur la première, ma fille avait écrit maman.

On the first, my daughter had written Mum.

Nous avons mangé dans la petite salle commune.

We ate in the little staff room.

Chorus

Noël brille en bleu derrière les vitres.

Christmas shines blue behind the glass.

Je garde la lumière pour ceux qui restent.

I keep the light for those who stay.

Un repas peut traverser une ville silencieuse.

A meal can cross a silent city.

Outro

J'ai repris mon chariot après leur départ.

I took my trolley back after they left.

Ma boîte portait enfin mon prénom en grand.

My box finally bore my name in large letters.