Post by davidhr on Jun 15, 2015 11:55:19 GMT -5
Lara has released her new single, and has put a lyric video for it on youtube, at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hK8Z8c61yA
Here is a translation:
When I Do Not Sing
When I do not sing
I’m like you
I’m like that
A wife, a mother
A woman who must know how to do everything
When I do not sing
My life
Is plugged into the earth
Even if the sky
Laughs at me
To sing is all that I know how to do
I was walking in the street
Installed myself on terraces
Thinking of some strangers
Their making a place [for me]
I listened to their stories
They knew mine
On a simple glance
Our lives are quite the same
The school exit
Our children who rush up
But all their words fly off
And their laughter is deafening
When the echo of silence
Is your only ally
It is the enemy who dances
While you weep
When I do not sing
I’m like you
I’m like that
A wife, a mother
A woman who must know how to do everything
When I do not sing
My life is plugged into the earth
Even if the sky
Laughs at me
To sing is all that I know how to do
Sing in the full light
Sing
When one is made for that
Nothing else delivers her soul
It is necessary to keep the faith
Our hearts one against the other
To find in this life
All our little joys
But is that enough
To make the hours pass
When I do not sing
I’m like you
I’m like that
A wife, a mother
A woman who must know how to do everything
When I do not sing
My life is plugged into the earth
Even if the sky
Laughs at me
To sing is all that I know how to do
When I do not sing
I am like you
I am like that
A mistress, a friend
A woman with a thousand and one lives
When I do not sing
Of course
Dawn is breaking anyway
Sometimes it is no longer really that
Often I am no longer myself
I am no longer myself
I am no longer me
When I do not sing
I whisper some ancient prayers
Which lead me straight
To the only thing I know how to do
Sing in the full light
Sing in the full light
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hK8Z8c61yA
Here is a translation:
When I Do Not Sing
When I do not sing
I’m like you
I’m like that
A wife, a mother
A woman who must know how to do everything
When I do not sing
My life
Is plugged into the earth
Even if the sky
Laughs at me
To sing is all that I know how to do
I was walking in the street
Installed myself on terraces
Thinking of some strangers
Their making a place [for me]
I listened to their stories
They knew mine
On a simple glance
Our lives are quite the same
The school exit
Our children who rush up
But all their words fly off
And their laughter is deafening
When the echo of silence
Is your only ally
It is the enemy who dances
While you weep
When I do not sing
I’m like you
I’m like that
A wife, a mother
A woman who must know how to do everything
When I do not sing
My life is plugged into the earth
Even if the sky
Laughs at me
To sing is all that I know how to do
Sing in the full light
Sing
When one is made for that
Nothing else delivers her soul
It is necessary to keep the faith
Our hearts one against the other
To find in this life
All our little joys
But is that enough
To make the hours pass
When I do not sing
I’m like you
I’m like that
A wife, a mother
A woman who must know how to do everything
When I do not sing
My life is plugged into the earth
Even if the sky
Laughs at me
To sing is all that I know how to do
When I do not sing
I am like you
I am like that
A mistress, a friend
A woman with a thousand and one lives
When I do not sing
Of course
Dawn is breaking anyway
Sometimes it is no longer really that
Often I am no longer myself
I am no longer myself
I am no longer me
When I do not sing
I whisper some ancient prayers
Which lead me straight
To the only thing I know how to do
Sing in the full light
Sing in the full light
