Chumbawamba All In Vain

Chumbawamba - All In Vain

Lyrics and translation Chumbawamba - All In Vain

All In Vain

Tout est vain

I wish

Je voudrais

I wish

Je voudrais

But it's all in vain

Mais tout est vain

But it's all in vain

Mais tout est vain

I wish

Je voudrais

I wish

Je voudrais

But it's all in vain

Mais tout est vain

But it's all in vain

Mais tout est vain

I wish

Je voudrais

I wish

Je voudrais

But it's all in vain

Mais tout est vain

But it's all in vain

Mais tout est vain

Different colours, different faces

Des couleurs différentes, des visages différents

Different schools in different places

Des écoles différentes dans des endroits différents

Scour the morning papers, all in vain

Parcourir les journaux du matin, tout est vain

Evening after, who remembers?

Soir après soir, qui se souvient ?

Say your prayers for the great pretenders

Prie pour les grands prétendants

I see nothing but flowers, all in vain

Je ne vois que des fleurs, tout est vain

I wish

Je voudrais

I wish

Je voudrais

But it's all in vain

Mais tout est vain

But it's all in vain

Mais tout est vain

I wish

Je voudrais

I wish

Je voudrais

But it's all in vain

Mais tout est vain

But it's all in vain

Mais tout est vain

All the gravestone elegies

Toutes les élégies de pierre tombale

I-never-met-you memories

Des souvenirs de "je ne t'ai jamais rencontrée"

And every TV picture, all in vain

Et chaque image à la télévision, tout est vain

All your questions, deep as skin

Toutes tes questions, profondes comme la peau

Seperate worlds to put them in

Des mondes séparés pour les y mettre

Another might-have-been, all in vain

Un autre qui aurait pu être, tout est vain

I wish (colour blind as tse-tse flies)

Je voudrais (aveugle aux couleurs comme les mouches tsé-tsé)

I wish (sucking all our difference dry)

Je voudrais (aspirant toute notre différence)

I wish (and as we sleep they multiply)

Je voudrais (et pendant que nous dormons, ils se multiplient)

I wish

Je voudrais

I wish (and as we sleep they multiply)

Je voudrais (et pendant que nous dormons, ils se multiplient)

I wish

Je voudrais

All in vain

Tout est vain

I wish (and as we sleep they multiply)

Je voudrais (et pendant que nous dormons, ils se multiplient)

I wish

Je voudrais

All in vain

Tout est vain

I wish (and as we sleep they multiply)

Je voudrais (et pendant que nous dormons, ils se multiplient)

Multiply

Se multiplient

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Writer(s): Darren Hamer, Nigel Hunter, Alice Nutter, Louise Watts, Allan Whalley, Judith Abbott, Duncan Bruce, Neil Ferguson

Album

Readymades

date of release

01-01-2002

1 Salt Fare, North Sea
2 Jacob's Ladder
3 All In Vain
4 Home With Me
5 If It Is to Be, It Is Up to Me
6 Don't Try This At Home
7 Song for Len Shackleton
8 Without Reason or Rhyme (The Killing of Harry Stanley)
9 Don't Pass Go
10 One Way or the Other
11 When I'm Bad
12 Sewing Up Crap
13 After Shelly

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