In France, the word “Eiffel” used to only bring to mind Paris‘s most celebrated monument:la Tour Eiffel (the Eiffel Tower.)
Today, however, it also refers to a young and dynamic music band which has successfully reinvigorated the French Rock scene, after years of torpor and somnolence (the same as in English: sleepiness!)
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Eiffel – “Sous ton aile” (“Under Your Wing”)
Partons en tyrolienne
Let’s cross a Zip-line
Trémousser en écume
Jiggling in foam
Maintenant que
Now that
Nos chouettes fêlures crâniennes
Our awesome cranial cracks
Logent un rayon de lune
Host a moon ray
Avec cette épitaphe en vrac
With this higgledy-piggledy epitaph
À graver au large d’Ithaque:
To be engraved off the coasts of Ithaca [Allusion to the Greek Island, conquered by Napoleon Bonaparte after being for a time a Venetian property]