Post by davidhr on Nov 10, 2015 10:00:23 GMT -5
Following is a translation of the lyrics from ‘Ma vie dans la tienne’. The 11 songs from the album are included, as well as the two bonus songs from the ‘Deluxe’ edition.
It is ‘a’ translation, because various synonyms could be used instead of the words chosen. The preference here is to keep as close to the English version of the French word as possible, to maintain the original flavor, even if, had it been written in English in the first place, a different word would have been used. Also some phrases could be interpreted a bit differently. The lyrics used for translation are the ones written in the booklet accompanying the album; they are not always the words Lara sings. For example, in ‘C’est ma terre’, she skips one stanza of four lines, and in the last stanza of ‘Envie d’en rire’ she substitutes in an earlier line for the later one. This always happens, not only with Lara but with every singer – and it’s not clear which is the preferred lyric, since the singer may have changed her mind about it. Nevertheless, the booklet version is in print, so that’s the one followed here (and probably elsewhere). If you discover anything amiss (certainly very possible), please let me know.
David
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1. WHEN I DO NOT SING (QUAND JE NE CHANTE PAS)
Lyrics: Gatego and Fabian
Melody: Hesme and Fabian
When I do not sing,
I am like you, I am like that,
A wife, a mother,
A woman who must know how to do all.
When I do not sing,
My life is plugged into the earth,
Even if the sky laughs at me,
To sing, it is all that I know to do.
I was walking in the street, settled on the terraces,
Crossed some strangers, made for them a place,
I listened to their stories, they were acquainted with mine,
On a simple glance, our lives are all the same
The exit of the school, 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 am like you, I am like that,
A wife, a mother,
A woman who must know how to do all.
When I do not sing,
My life is plugged into the earth,
Even if the sky laughs at me,
To sing, it is all that I know to do.
To sing
In full light,
To sing…
When one is made for that, nothing else supplies her soul,
It is necessary to keep the faith, our hearts the one against the other
To find in this life all our little joys,
But does that suffice to make the hours pass?
When I do not sing,
I am like you, I am like that,
A wife, a mother,
A woman who must know how to do all.
When I do not sing,
My life is plugged into the earth,
Even if the sky laughs at me,
To sing, it is all that I know 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 way,
To the only thing that I know to do
To sing in full light,
To sing.
To sing in full light,
To sing,
To sing…
When I do not sing…
When I do not sing…
To sing in full light…
2. MY LIFE IN YOURS (MA VIE DANS LA TIENNE)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
Close the door and put your coat just there,
Sit close to me,
This is what I have to say to you, I will say it only once,
I will say it only to you.
If I had know the torrents hurtling down on my land,
If I had seen the burnings ravaging my flesh
If I had known all that,
These impossible round-trips
Of love.
I would have put my life in yours
As we mix the blood of veins
I would have stayed near you,
Believe me.
Some elements that explode,
You would have protected me from myself,
My soul mate, my queen,
So much time that I love you.
Give me your hand, I beg you don’t remove it,
What binds us is beyond
Organic, mineral, karmic,
indefinable,
That which attaches me to you goes beyond.
If I had believed that it was necessary not to believe it…shame
The dessert oases are never more than mirages,
If I had known all this,
The grand promises which turned short
In love.
I would have put my life in yours
As we mix the blood of veins
I would have stayed near you,
Believe me.
Some elements that explode,
You would have protected me from myself,
My soul mate, my queen,
So much time that I love you.
The next time, perhaps in a thousand years,
I know already that in another world
You will put your life in mine,
We will go where our hearts leads us
You will stay here, near me,
Of your hopes, your joys, your pains,
I will protect you from yourself
You will put your life in mine,
We will go where our hearts lead us,
You will stay here, near me
Believe me,
Of your hopes, your joys, your pains,
I will protect you from yourself
My soul mate, my queen,
So much time that I love you
3. THE DISENCHANTMENT (LE DÉSAMOUR)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
By dirty waves comes the incomprehension,
And then the rage for being a jerk,
Crying, screaming, what’s the point really?
But we are just human,
Just human…
We patch up, there’s nothing more to save
We hang on, one could only run,
To stand up, for who, why,
Tell me,
But what does that set for tomorrow?
The Disenchantment
It is to say to oneself,
Will one remain friends?
The Disenchantment
It is a curse,
Happiness which flees
When everything collapses
Like an empire
But how to find worse?
Than love which escapes.
From broken bodies are born bad stories,
We drink, we go out, we invent fogs,
We abandon ourselves in other arms of an evening,
We are not saints,
Not saints.
And then one day we recover standing,
Because we accept that there is no more “we”
It is necessary to live that to not go crazy
Alone, we are somebodies.
The Disenchantment
It is to say to oneself,
Will one remain friends?
The Disenchantment
It is a curse,
Happiness which flees
When everything collapses
Like an empire
But how to find worse?
Than love which escapes.
The Disenchantment
It is to age,
Some hundred years all of a sudden.
The Disenchantment,
It is to die,
Since the other doesn’t care,
From a single setback
All is fucked up,
Revive hope,
Before love clears out.
4. IF THERE IS ONLY A FRIEND (S'IL NE RESTE QU'UN AMI)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hemse and Fabian
When the party is finished, it is necessary to arrange the glasses,
Blow out the candles, turn on the light,
When one wants to know more, what time it really is,
Having played blotters of red or white alcohol
When one has laughed too hard to hide her sadness,
From infinite wounds made by those who leave us.
If there is for us only a friend,
Only a shoulder,
A rock where to rest,
If there is only a friend,
An oak, a willow,
Life has only begun,
If there is only a friend,
That’s enough.
One will see the sun rise over the roofs,
Vestiges of yesterday, a day, we will laugh of it,
To accept vulnerable, like a child under the tack,
All to fall on the table, from grand cries to whispers,
And to see oneself face to face, to give oneself courage,
And to see oneself in the mirror, ready to turn the page.
If there is only a friend,
Only a shoulder,
A rock where to rest,
If there is only a friend,
An oak, a willow,
Life has only begun,
If there is only a friend,
If there is only a friend,
Only a mirror,
To tell the truth,
If there is only a friend,
This is the friend,
That ground one has finally found
If there is only a friend,
He is here…
5. DESIRE TO LAUGH (ENVIE D’EN RIRE)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
To be at once of the snow and fire,
Not knowing which to prefer of the two,
All these stories that one told to me,
Those which one must believe, those which it is necessary to forget,
I want to laugh,
I want to cry.
Of those years at the foot of my volcano
Until the break when it rained all the time,
When I was told that all was going to change
Between two worlds, I took refuge,
I want to laugh,
I want to cry.
It is love that supports me,
Day after day I want so much to give
All this love without which I could burst
I want to laugh,
I want to cry.
Unbearable in my big explosions,
More than adorable when I talk softly
To exist it is no longer necessary to choose,
I have learned it but I don’t know how to say it
I want to laugh,
I want to cry
It is love that supports me,
Day after day I want so much to give
All this love without which I could burst
I want to laugh,
I want to cry.
It is that I have only merit?
All this love, I will never know,
All this love but who gave it to me?
I want to laugh,
I want to cry.
I want to laugh,
I want to cry…
6. THE TREMBLING HEART (LE COEUR QUI TREMBLE)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
I open the door leaving my hand on the handle,
One never knows what could happen,
You know, outside men fall with the night,
I would protect you when the cats will be gray.
I will offer you the name of clear city streets,
Avoiding for you the dark corners, dead ends, the fools,
Their arms stretched too quickly like gnarled branches,
I would love so much for you to avoid all these empty promises.
But you will do
As you see fit
You will see
No history is alike
But do not blame me,
If I do more than one should
It is despite myself,
I would always have the soul that lurks,
And even together
I would always have the heart that trembles.
You will take boats, I will wait for your return,
You will travel, who would want to cut it short,
But when you go away, I will stay in one piece,
Your departure in my heart like the last impact.
My child, you will take your life head on,
I would spend mine watching over your lot,
Today you fall asleep in the room next door,
And I pray that nothing will come to separate us.
But you will do
As you see fit
You will see
No history is alike
But do not blame me,
If I do more than one should
It is despite myself,
I would always have the soul that lurks,
And even together
But you will do
As you see fit
You will see
A little the life that resembles you
But do not worry
If I can not sleep in peace,
It is in spite of myself,
I would always have the soul that lurks,
And even together
I would always have the heart that trembles.
7. YOUR DESIRE (TON DESIR)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
In these timess, in that weather,
It’s raining in our shoes,
It doesn’t go well, we speak softly,
Hidden under our steel tack,
Fatigued,
I want to change all that.
Suddenly, an idea comes to me,
A game only for you,
To be a girl to imagine,
Like a large bonfire,
Burning, swinging,
To forget the stress and the cold.
I will be your Desire,
Your doll, your cashmere sweater,
Your minute of pleasure,
Your craving for sweet and salty,
Your audacity, your crazy laughter,
Your fir tree in the month of July,
The song that inspires you,
Do with me what pleases you.
Happiness is not complicated,
One always has a choice,
Stilettos and D cup,
Horizontal or not,
I want your big eyes,
Immersed in my neckline of silk.
No need of five star hotels,
It is passed all that,
And caviar it is banal,
I have much better for you,
In view
Me all naked,
The one on the other and where you would like.
I will be your Desire,
Your doll, your cashmere sweater,
Your minute of pleasure,
Your craving for sweet and salty,
Your audacity, your crazy laughter,
Your fir tree in the month of July,
The song that inspires you,
Do with me what pleases you.
Follow me in my delirium
I will make you my grand vizier,
My Beckham, my Shakespeare,
My comic book hero,
The important thing is to laugh,
And never forget to love oneself,
And never forget to dream.
Do with me what pleases you
Do with me
Do with me what pleases you
8. THE ILLUSIONIST (L’illusionniste)
Words: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
I have seen clowns, acrobats
Tamers of wildcats all in pasteboard,
Make me their circus, their numbers
To solicit two-three cheers
They would have sold off their egos,
At a time when nothing could have pleased me,
He arrived in the light,
And as an angel fallen from the sky,
He covered me with his wings,
Making the essential appear.
The Illusionist
Is of those men who know why
love exists,
Without artifice,
The Illusionist
Makes my troubles fly away
No more time to be sad,
And all becomes clear
And if every morning I wake up,
It is because he makes the sun rise,
Like magic there on my skin,
It is the gold hook from above,
I had never dreamed of anything so beautiful.
The Illusionist
Is of those men who know why
love exists
Without artifice,
The Illusionist
Makes my troubles fly away
No more time to be sad,
And all becomes clear.
My Illusionist Is the only man who knows
What love means
Without any trick,
My Illusionist
Invents for me a world that I have
Always imagined,
Everything is perfect
With my illusionist.
The Illusionist
9. SHE DANCES (ELLE DANSE)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
She prepares the evening meal,
Mechanically sets down two plates,
And then in a derisory gesture
Decorates them with pretty towels.
She knows that he will not return
But still doesn’t dare believe it.
This meal, she will not touch it
Like all the evenings.
Then so as not to die,
Then so as not to speak of him,
She dances,
She dances,
To divert her thoughts, so as to finish
With the memories,
She dances,
She dances,
As one breathes, as one perspires
That which one does not know to say.
Left for another woman,
Like one changes summer clothes,
He said that he no longer had any flame,
That he could no longer breathe.
She knows well that he was right,
The daily life tires us all,
But when one loves, the reason,
What can one do about it?
So as not to age,
So as not to curse,
She dances,
She dances,
To divert her thoughts, so as to finish
With the memories,
She dances,
She dances,
As one breathes, as one perspires
That which one does not know to say.
She dances,
She dances,
As one leaves the ground of those
That it is necessary to let go,
She dances,
She dances.
As one consoles oneself on having been
The only one to hope.
10. STAND UP (RELÈVE-TOI)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
I see the fogs that you traverse,
I feel this arrow that pierces you,
Like right in the heart,
What a pain!
I drank the poison of this pond,
I know that it remains in the blood,
To forget,
It takes time.
Stand up,
As a child would take his first step,
Do not let them take from you what you have,
Fuck you some words that one will say to you
Stand up,
Stand up,
I know, what does not kill you makes you stronger,
To this phrase, it will be necessary to lay the blame,
To suffer hell,
What is this for?
I saw the looks you hate,
I feel that which you flee like the plague,
The indifference,
Their arrogance.
Stand up,
It is through the cracks that the light passes,
And it is between them that they will make war,
As we lose ourselves in wanting to please,
We despair.
Stand up
Like a marching army that no one can stop,
And show them what wood you are made of,
To fall from the highest to be reborn better,
Stand up,
Stand up.
11. FORGETFULNESS (L'OUBLI)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
She walks, slowly like off the beat
Her body suffers, all its movements,
She looks outside to see if it’s good weather,
From the chair to the couch,
From the chair to the couch.
More people of whom care must be taken,
More than one cup to leave out in the morning,
For her, nothing is really entirely as before,
From the chair to the couch,
From the chair to the couch.
Forgetfulness
Forgetfulness like an impasse on the gestures that hurt,
Forgetfulness as she shifts her past, her sadness,
Forgetfulness is superficially that which makes us suffer,
But it is inside which makes it hold.
She is still so beautiful at the moment,
In these black hairs,
not a white hair
She accepts her fate, her memory which is on the lam,
From the past to the present,
From the past.
I speak with her of everything, of nothing,
Of her childhood, that, that she remembers ,
But of the bouquet of roses that I have just brought,
Will remain the perfume,
But the image flies away.
Forgetfulness
Forgetfulness like an impasse on the gestures that hurt,
Forgetfulness as she shifts her past, her sadness,
Forgetfulness is superficially that which makes us suffer,
But it is inside which makes it hold.
Forgetfulness,
Forgetfulness like overlooking the gestures that hurt,
Forgetfulness as she shifts her past, her sadness,
Forgetfulness is superficially that which makes us suffer,
But it is inside which makes it hold.
Forgetfulness bursts her heart,
For there is nothing that remains
Forgetfulness like a savior,
It is a blessing in disguise,
Forgetfulness is a space that no one understands,
But for her it is the place that finally her soul takes back.
12. THIS IS MY EARTH (C’EST MA TERRE)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Igor Krutoi
She despairs, screams really
For millennia who hears her?
Threatened with death, she waits
Whether one wakes up, it is time.
What would be necessary for us to understand?
The futile wars, the sky which trembles,
Our children on the ground, without toys
Drinking oil, thirsty.
It is my Earth, my beautiful story,
I see it in our eyes,
To live without ever giving up,
It is my Earth, it is our hope,
Do not lose the memory
Of being without ever selling oneself
And despite his exhausted heart
Of having loved without being loved,
The sap flows like golden fingers
Under the bark still she believes it.
Let the winds blow, all contrary
To sweep up the blood, the anger,
To dream of a better world finally,
Of peace being the protector
It is my Earth, my beautiful story,
I see it in our eyes,
To live without ever giving up,
It is my Earth, it is our hope,
Do not lose the memory
Of being without ever selling oneself
Of being called a fool, basically we do not care,
It would be much more serious that one bursts, that one slobbers,
If we do not do anything: who will save tomorrow?
And like a bird, watching from above, high above…
It is my Earth, my beautiful story,
I see it in your eyes,
To live without ever giving up,
It is my Earth, it is our hope.
Do not lose the memory,
Of being without ever selling oneself.
I speak to you of my Earth,
Like one speaks of a mother,
Then, despite our false steps,
I sing to it like one hopes,
To keep in us the light,
My Earth, my heart which beats.
13. I WILL SEE AGAIN THE WINTER (JE VAIS REVOIR L’HIVER)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Igor Krutoi
It is the mirror that reflects me
This safe appearance of me.
But who am I under the make-up?
I am missing, I feel down
At the loss of my voice,
I cry my heart in the language of the
cold
Far, much too far from my Canada.
All saddens me,
I loss the compass,
But one sole thing consoles me
I will see again the winter,
These people who speak truth to people
With this accent
Beautiful as the river.
I will see again my land,
Where the snow falls while dancing
With feeling
There where I find again my light
And this reflection whispered to me
Of watching me
From yesterday to today.
I have never really left
And of all “I remember”,
Of their wise souls, their Indian summer,
Of this beautiful world which is mine.
That consoles me,
And I shake it off,
All my grief flies away.
I will see again the winter,
These people who speak truth to people
With this accent
Beautiful as the river.
I will see again my land,
Where the snow falls while dancing
With feeling
There where I find again my light.
It is ‘a’ translation, because various synonyms could be used instead of the words chosen. The preference here is to keep as close to the English version of the French word as possible, to maintain the original flavor, even if, had it been written in English in the first place, a different word would have been used. Also some phrases could be interpreted a bit differently. The lyrics used for translation are the ones written in the booklet accompanying the album; they are not always the words Lara sings. For example, in ‘C’est ma terre’, she skips one stanza of four lines, and in the last stanza of ‘Envie d’en rire’ she substitutes in an earlier line for the later one. This always happens, not only with Lara but with every singer – and it’s not clear which is the preferred lyric, since the singer may have changed her mind about it. Nevertheless, the booklet version is in print, so that’s the one followed here (and probably elsewhere). If you discover anything amiss (certainly very possible), please let me know.
David
---------------------------------------------------------
1. WHEN I DO NOT SING (QUAND JE NE CHANTE PAS)
Lyrics: Gatego and Fabian
Melody: Hesme and Fabian
When I do not sing,
I am like you, I am like that,
A wife, a mother,
A woman who must know how to do all.
When I do not sing,
My life is plugged into the earth,
Even if the sky laughs at me,
To sing, it is all that I know to do.
I was walking in the street, settled on the terraces,
Crossed some strangers, made for them a place,
I listened to their stories, they were acquainted with mine,
On a simple glance, our lives are all the same
The exit of the school, 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 am like you, I am like that,
A wife, a mother,
A woman who must know how to do all.
When I do not sing,
My life is plugged into the earth,
Even if the sky laughs at me,
To sing, it is all that I know to do.
To sing
In full light,
To sing…
When one is made for that, nothing else supplies her soul,
It is necessary to keep the faith, our hearts the one against the other
To find in this life all our little joys,
But does that suffice to make the hours pass?
When I do not sing,
I am like you, I am like that,
A wife, a mother,
A woman who must know how to do all.
When I do not sing,
My life is plugged into the earth,
Even if the sky laughs at me,
To sing, it is all that I know 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 way,
To the only thing that I know to do
To sing in full light,
To sing.
To sing in full light,
To sing,
To sing…
When I do not sing…
When I do not sing…
To sing in full light…
2. MY LIFE IN YOURS (MA VIE DANS LA TIENNE)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
Close the door and put your coat just there,
Sit close to me,
This is what I have to say to you, I will say it only once,
I will say it only to you.
If I had know the torrents hurtling down on my land,
If I had seen the burnings ravaging my flesh
If I had known all that,
These impossible round-trips
Of love.
I would have put my life in yours
As we mix the blood of veins
I would have stayed near you,
Believe me.
Some elements that explode,
You would have protected me from myself,
My soul mate, my queen,
So much time that I love you.
Give me your hand, I beg you don’t remove it,
What binds us is beyond
Organic, mineral, karmic,
indefinable,
That which attaches me to you goes beyond.
If I had believed that it was necessary not to believe it…shame
The dessert oases are never more than mirages,
If I had known all this,
The grand promises which turned short
In love.
I would have put my life in yours
As we mix the blood of veins
I would have stayed near you,
Believe me.
Some elements that explode,
You would have protected me from myself,
My soul mate, my queen,
So much time that I love you.
The next time, perhaps in a thousand years,
I know already that in another world
You will put your life in mine,
We will go where our hearts leads us
You will stay here, near me,
Of your hopes, your joys, your pains,
I will protect you from yourself
You will put your life in mine,
We will go where our hearts lead us,
You will stay here, near me
Believe me,
Of your hopes, your joys, your pains,
I will protect you from yourself
My soul mate, my queen,
So much time that I love you
3. THE DISENCHANTMENT (LE DÉSAMOUR)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
By dirty waves comes the incomprehension,
And then the rage for being a jerk,
Crying, screaming, what’s the point really?
But we are just human,
Just human…
We patch up, there’s nothing more to save
We hang on, one could only run,
To stand up, for who, why,
Tell me,
But what does that set for tomorrow?
The Disenchantment
It is to say to oneself,
Will one remain friends?
The Disenchantment
It is a curse,
Happiness which flees
When everything collapses
Like an empire
But how to find worse?
Than love which escapes.
From broken bodies are born bad stories,
We drink, we go out, we invent fogs,
We abandon ourselves in other arms of an evening,
We are not saints,
Not saints.
And then one day we recover standing,
Because we accept that there is no more “we”
It is necessary to live that to not go crazy
Alone, we are somebodies.
The Disenchantment
It is to say to oneself,
Will one remain friends?
The Disenchantment
It is a curse,
Happiness which flees
When everything collapses
Like an empire
But how to find worse?
Than love which escapes.
The Disenchantment
It is to age,
Some hundred years all of a sudden.
The Disenchantment,
It is to die,
Since the other doesn’t care,
From a single setback
All is fucked up,
Revive hope,
Before love clears out.
4. IF THERE IS ONLY A FRIEND (S'IL NE RESTE QU'UN AMI)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hemse and Fabian
When the party is finished, it is necessary to arrange the glasses,
Blow out the candles, turn on the light,
When one wants to know more, what time it really is,
Having played blotters of red or white alcohol
When one has laughed too hard to hide her sadness,
From infinite wounds made by those who leave us.
If there is for us only a friend,
Only a shoulder,
A rock where to rest,
If there is only a friend,
An oak, a willow,
Life has only begun,
If there is only a friend,
That’s enough.
One will see the sun rise over the roofs,
Vestiges of yesterday, a day, we will laugh of it,
To accept vulnerable, like a child under the tack,
All to fall on the table, from grand cries to whispers,
And to see oneself face to face, to give oneself courage,
And to see oneself in the mirror, ready to turn the page.
If there is only a friend,
Only a shoulder,
A rock where to rest,
If there is only a friend,
An oak, a willow,
Life has only begun,
If there is only a friend,
If there is only a friend,
Only a mirror,
To tell the truth,
If there is only a friend,
This is the friend,
That ground one has finally found
If there is only a friend,
He is here…
5. DESIRE TO LAUGH (ENVIE D’EN RIRE)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
To be at once of the snow and fire,
Not knowing which to prefer of the two,
All these stories that one told to me,
Those which one must believe, those which it is necessary to forget,
I want to laugh,
I want to cry.
Of those years at the foot of my volcano
Until the break when it rained all the time,
When I was told that all was going to change
Between two worlds, I took refuge,
I want to laugh,
I want to cry.
It is love that supports me,
Day after day I want so much to give
All this love without which I could burst
I want to laugh,
I want to cry.
Unbearable in my big explosions,
More than adorable when I talk softly
To exist it is no longer necessary to choose,
I have learned it but I don’t know how to say it
I want to laugh,
I want to cry
It is love that supports me,
Day after day I want so much to give
All this love without which I could burst
I want to laugh,
I want to cry.
It is that I have only merit?
All this love, I will never know,
All this love but who gave it to me?
I want to laugh,
I want to cry.
I want to laugh,
I want to cry…
6. THE TREMBLING HEART (LE COEUR QUI TREMBLE)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
I open the door leaving my hand on the handle,
One never knows what could happen,
You know, outside men fall with the night,
I would protect you when the cats will be gray.
I will offer you the name of clear city streets,
Avoiding for you the dark corners, dead ends, the fools,
Their arms stretched too quickly like gnarled branches,
I would love so much for you to avoid all these empty promises.
But you will do
As you see fit
You will see
No history is alike
But do not blame me,
If I do more than one should
It is despite myself,
I would always have the soul that lurks,
And even together
I would always have the heart that trembles.
You will take boats, I will wait for your return,
You will travel, who would want to cut it short,
But when you go away, I will stay in one piece,
Your departure in my heart like the last impact.
My child, you will take your life head on,
I would spend mine watching over your lot,
Today you fall asleep in the room next door,
And I pray that nothing will come to separate us.
But you will do
As you see fit
You will see
No history is alike
But do not blame me,
If I do more than one should
It is despite myself,
I would always have the soul that lurks,
And even together
But you will do
As you see fit
You will see
A little the life that resembles you
But do not worry
If I can not sleep in peace,
It is in spite of myself,
I would always have the soul that lurks,
And even together
I would always have the heart that trembles.
7. YOUR DESIRE (TON DESIR)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
In these timess, in that weather,
It’s raining in our shoes,
It doesn’t go well, we speak softly,
Hidden under our steel tack,
Fatigued,
I want to change all that.
Suddenly, an idea comes to me,
A game only for you,
To be a girl to imagine,
Like a large bonfire,
Burning, swinging,
To forget the stress and the cold.
I will be your Desire,
Your doll, your cashmere sweater,
Your minute of pleasure,
Your craving for sweet and salty,
Your audacity, your crazy laughter,
Your fir tree in the month of July,
The song that inspires you,
Do with me what pleases you.
Happiness is not complicated,
One always has a choice,
Stilettos and D cup,
Horizontal or not,
I want your big eyes,
Immersed in my neckline of silk.
No need of five star hotels,
It is passed all that,
And caviar it is banal,
I have much better for you,
In view
Me all naked,
The one on the other and where you would like.
I will be your Desire,
Your doll, your cashmere sweater,
Your minute of pleasure,
Your craving for sweet and salty,
Your audacity, your crazy laughter,
Your fir tree in the month of July,
The song that inspires you,
Do with me what pleases you.
Follow me in my delirium
I will make you my grand vizier,
My Beckham, my Shakespeare,
My comic book hero,
The important thing is to laugh,
And never forget to love oneself,
And never forget to dream.
Do with me what pleases you
Do with me
Do with me what pleases you
8. THE ILLUSIONIST (L’illusionniste)
Words: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
I have seen clowns, acrobats
Tamers of wildcats all in pasteboard,
Make me their circus, their numbers
To solicit two-three cheers
They would have sold off their egos,
At a time when nothing could have pleased me,
He arrived in the light,
And as an angel fallen from the sky,
He covered me with his wings,
Making the essential appear.
The Illusionist
Is of those men who know why
love exists,
Without artifice,
The Illusionist
Makes my troubles fly away
No more time to be sad,
And all becomes clear
And if every morning I wake up,
It is because he makes the sun rise,
Like magic there on my skin,
It is the gold hook from above,
I had never dreamed of anything so beautiful.
The Illusionist
Is of those men who know why
love exists
Without artifice,
The Illusionist
Makes my troubles fly away
No more time to be sad,
And all becomes clear.
My Illusionist Is the only man who knows
What love means
Without any trick,
My Illusionist
Invents for me a world that I have
Always imagined,
Everything is perfect
With my illusionist.
The Illusionist
9. SHE DANCES (ELLE DANSE)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
She prepares the evening meal,
Mechanically sets down two plates,
And then in a derisory gesture
Decorates them with pretty towels.
She knows that he will not return
But still doesn’t dare believe it.
This meal, she will not touch it
Like all the evenings.
Then so as not to die,
Then so as not to speak of him,
She dances,
She dances,
To divert her thoughts, so as to finish
With the memories,
She dances,
She dances,
As one breathes, as one perspires
That which one does not know to say.
Left for another woman,
Like one changes summer clothes,
He said that he no longer had any flame,
That he could no longer breathe.
She knows well that he was right,
The daily life tires us all,
But when one loves, the reason,
What can one do about it?
So as not to age,
So as not to curse,
She dances,
She dances,
To divert her thoughts, so as to finish
With the memories,
She dances,
She dances,
As one breathes, as one perspires
That which one does not know to say.
She dances,
She dances,
As one leaves the ground of those
That it is necessary to let go,
She dances,
She dances.
As one consoles oneself on having been
The only one to hope.
10. STAND UP (RELÈVE-TOI)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
I see the fogs that you traverse,
I feel this arrow that pierces you,
Like right in the heart,
What a pain!
I drank the poison of this pond,
I know that it remains in the blood,
To forget,
It takes time.
Stand up,
As a child would take his first step,
Do not let them take from you what you have,
Fuck you some words that one will say to you
Stand up,
Stand up,
I know, what does not kill you makes you stronger,
To this phrase, it will be necessary to lay the blame,
To suffer hell,
What is this for?
I saw the looks you hate,
I feel that which you flee like the plague,
The indifference,
Their arrogance.
Stand up,
It is through the cracks that the light passes,
And it is between them that they will make war,
As we lose ourselves in wanting to please,
We despair.
Stand up
Like a marching army that no one can stop,
And show them what wood you are made of,
To fall from the highest to be reborn better,
Stand up,
Stand up.
11. FORGETFULNESS (L'OUBLI)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Hesme and Fabian
She walks, slowly like off the beat
Her body suffers, all its movements,
She looks outside to see if it’s good weather,
From the chair to the couch,
From the chair to the couch.
More people of whom care must be taken,
More than one cup to leave out in the morning,
For her, nothing is really entirely as before,
From the chair to the couch,
From the chair to the couch.
Forgetfulness
Forgetfulness like an impasse on the gestures that hurt,
Forgetfulness as she shifts her past, her sadness,
Forgetfulness is superficially that which makes us suffer,
But it is inside which makes it hold.
She is still so beautiful at the moment,
In these black hairs,
not a white hair
She accepts her fate, her memory which is on the lam,
From the past to the present,
From the past.
I speak with her of everything, of nothing,
Of her childhood, that, that she remembers ,
But of the bouquet of roses that I have just brought,
Will remain the perfume,
But the image flies away.
Forgetfulness
Forgetfulness like an impasse on the gestures that hurt,
Forgetfulness as she shifts her past, her sadness,
Forgetfulness is superficially that which makes us suffer,
But it is inside which makes it hold.
Forgetfulness,
Forgetfulness like overlooking the gestures that hurt,
Forgetfulness as she shifts her past, her sadness,
Forgetfulness is superficially that which makes us suffer,
But it is inside which makes it hold.
Forgetfulness bursts her heart,
For there is nothing that remains
Forgetfulness like a savior,
It is a blessing in disguise,
Forgetfulness is a space that no one understands,
But for her it is the place that finally her soul takes back.
12. THIS IS MY EARTH (C’EST MA TERRE)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Igor Krutoi
She despairs, screams really
For millennia who hears her?
Threatened with death, she waits
Whether one wakes up, it is time.
What would be necessary for us to understand?
The futile wars, the sky which trembles,
Our children on the ground, without toys
Drinking oil, thirsty.
It is my Earth, my beautiful story,
I see it in our eyes,
To live without ever giving up,
It is my Earth, it is our hope,
Do not lose the memory
Of being without ever selling oneself
And despite his exhausted heart
Of having loved without being loved,
The sap flows like golden fingers
Under the bark still she believes it.
Let the winds blow, all contrary
To sweep up the blood, the anger,
To dream of a better world finally,
Of peace being the protector
It is my Earth, my beautiful story,
I see it in our eyes,
To live without ever giving up,
It is my Earth, it is our hope,
Do not lose the memory
Of being without ever selling oneself
Of being called a fool, basically we do not care,
It would be much more serious that one bursts, that one slobbers,
If we do not do anything: who will save tomorrow?
And like a bird, watching from above, high above…
It is my Earth, my beautiful story,
I see it in your eyes,
To live without ever giving up,
It is my Earth, it is our hope.
Do not lose the memory,
Of being without ever selling oneself.
I speak to you of my Earth,
Like one speaks of a mother,
Then, despite our false steps,
I sing to it like one hopes,
To keep in us the light,
My Earth, my heart which beats.
13. I WILL SEE AGAIN THE WINTER (JE VAIS REVOIR L’HIVER)
Lyrics: Gategno and Fabian
Music: Igor Krutoi
It is the mirror that reflects me
This safe appearance of me.
But who am I under the make-up?
I am missing, I feel down
At the loss of my voice,
I cry my heart in the language of the
cold
Far, much too far from my Canada.
All saddens me,
I loss the compass,
But one sole thing consoles me
I will see again the winter,
These people who speak truth to people
With this accent
Beautiful as the river.
I will see again my land,
Where the snow falls while dancing
With feeling
There where I find again my light
And this reflection whispered to me
Of watching me
From yesterday to today.
I have never really left
And of all “I remember”,
Of their wise souls, their Indian summer,
Of this beautiful world which is mine.
That consoles me,
And I shake it off,
All my grief flies away.
I will see again the winter,
These people who speak truth to people
With this accent
Beautiful as the river.
I will see again my land,
Where the snow falls while dancing
With feeling
There where I find again my light.
