Jeff Wayne - The Eve of the War (Stripped Down Mix) - translation of the lyrics into French

Lyrics and translation Jeff Wayne - The Eve of the War (Stripped Down Mix)




The Eve of the War (Stripped Down Mix)
La Veille de la Guerre (Mix Dépouillé)
[Journalist]: No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us.
[Journaliste] : Personne n'aurait cru, dans les dernières années du XIXe siècle, que les affaires humaines étaient surveillées depuis les mondes éternels de l'espace. Personne n'aurait pu rêver que nous étions scrutés, comme quelqu'un qui étudie au microscope des créatures qui grouillent et se multiplient dans une goutte d'eau. Peu d'hommes envisageaient même la possibilité de la vie sur d'autres planètes, et pourtant, à travers le gouffre de l'espace, des esprits immensément supérieurs aux nôtres regardaient cette Terre avec des yeux envieux, et lentement et sûrement, ils élaboraient leurs plans contre nous.
At midnight on the twelfth of August, a huge mass of luminous gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth. Across two hundred million miles of void, invisibly hurtling towards us came the first of the missiles that were to bring so much calamity to Earth. As I watched, there was another jet of gas. It was another missile starting on its way.
À minuit, le douze août, une énorme masse de gaz lumineux jaillit de Mars et se dirigea vers la Terre. À travers deux cents millions de kilomètres de vide, se précipitant invisiblement vers nous, vint le premier des missiles qui devaient apporter tant de calamités sur Terre. En regardant, il y eut un autre jet de gaz. C'était un autre missile qui partait en route.
And that′s how it was for the next ten nights. A flare, spurting out from Mars, bright green, drawing a green mist behind it, a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight. Ogilvy the astronomer assured me we were in no danger. He was convinced there could be no living thing on that remote forbidding planet.
Et c'est comme ça que ça a été pendant les dix nuits suivantes. Un éclair, jaillissant de Mars, vert vif, traînant une brume verte derrière lui, un spectacle magnifique, mais en quelque sorte inquiétant. L'astronome Ogilvy m'assura que nous n'étions pas en danger. Il était convaincu qu'il ne pouvait y avoir de vie sur cette planète lointaine et hostile.
["The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one" he said"The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one, but still they come!"]
["Les chances que quelque chose vienne de Mars sont d'un million contre un", dit-il "Les chances que quelque chose vienne de Mars sont d'un million contre un, mais quand même elles arrivent !"]
[Journalist:] Then came the night the first missile approached Earth. It was thought to be an ordinary falling star, but next day there was a huge crater in the middle of the Common, and Ogilvy came to examine what lay there: a cylinder, thirty yards across, glowing hot... And with faint sounds of movement coming from within.
[Journaliste] : Puis vint la nuit le premier missile s'approcha de la Terre. On pensait que c'était une étoile filante ordinaire, mais le lendemain, il y avait un immense cratère au milieu du Common, et Ogilvy vint examiner ce qui se trouvait : un cylindre, de trente mètres de diamètre, incandescent... Et avec de faibles bruits de mouvements provenant de l'intérieur.
Suddenly the top began moving, rotating, unscrewing, and Ogilvy feared there was a man inside, trying to escape. He rushed to the cylinder, but the intense heat stopped him before he could burn himself on the metal.
Soudain, le sommet commença à bouger, à tourner, à se dévisser, et Ogilvy craignit qu'il n'y ait un homme à l'intérieur, essayant de s'échapper. Il se précipita vers le cylindre, mais la chaleur intense l'arrêta avant qu'il ne puisse se brûler sur le métal.
["The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one" he said"The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one, but still they come!""Yes the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one" he said"The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one, but still they come!"]
["Les chances que quelque chose vienne de Mars sont d'un million contre un", dit-il "Les chances que quelque chose vienne de Mars sont d'un million contre un, mais quand même elles arrivent !""Oui, les chances que quelque chose vienne de Mars sont d'un million contre un", dit-il "Les chances que quelque chose vienne de Mars sont d'un million contre un, mais quand même elles arrivent !"]
[Journalist:] It seems totally incredible to me now that everyone spent that evening as though it were just like any other. From the railway station came the sound of shunting trains, ringing and rumbling, softened almost into melody by the distance.
[Journaliste] : Il me semble totalement incroyable maintenant que tout le monde ait passé cette soirée comme si c'était une soirée comme les autres. De la gare, on entendait le bruit des trains de triage, qui sonnaient et roulaient, adoucis presque en mélodie par la distance.
It all seemed so safe and tranquil.
Tout semblait si sûr et tranquille.





Writer(s): Jeff Wayne


1 Forever Autumn (N-Trance remix)
2 The Red Weed (Mister Joy Boy Remix)
3 The Eve of the War (1980 Disco Steve Thompson Remix)
4 The Spirit of Man (Max Mondo Remix)
5 The Eve of the War (Ben Liebrand Remix)
6 Brave New World (Dario G Remix)
7 Dead London (Mr Joyboy remix)
8 The Eve of the War (Original Unused Intro)
9 The Eve of the War (Early Band Take)
10 The Eve of the War (Stripped Down Mix)
11 Forever Autumn (Original 1972 Version)
12 Brave New World (Todd Terry Remix)
13 The Eve of the War (Hybrid's Fire In the Sky Mix -)
14 The Eve of the War (Hani Remix)
15 Forever Autumn (Dark Autumn Dub Tom Frederikse / Gaëtan Schurrer Remix)
16 The Spirit of Destiny (The Parson Versus Palene) (Cassidy / Langan / Wayne remix)
17 The Eve of the War Versus Animal and Man (Forrest / Schurrer / Wayne remix)
18 The Four Narrators (opening passage)
19 'That' Laugh
20 Out-takes (from Horsell Common and the Heatray) 1
21 Out-takes (from Horsell Common and the Heatray) 2
22 Out-takes (from Horsell Common and the Heatray) 3
23 Out-takes (from Horsell Common and the Heatray) 4
24 The Heatray Versus the Jangle Piano (Martian Versus Man)
25 Richard Burton Out-take
26 Lego Toys (original 1969 TV commercial)
27 Bar Count - Under Attack (from Forever Autumn)
28 Bar Count Continues (from Forever Autumn)
29 The Spirit of Man: Spirit of Dub (Tom Frederikse / Gaëtan Schurrer remix)
30 The Eve of the War (5.1 mix)
31 Horsell Common and the Heat Ray (5.1 mix)
32 The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine (5.1 mix)
33 Forever Autumn (5.1 mix)
34 Thunder Child (5.1 mix)
35 The Red Weed, Part 1 (5.1 mix)
36 The Spirit of Man (5.1 mix)
37 The Red Weed, Part 2 (5.1 mix)
38 The Artilleryman Returns (5.1 mix)
39 Brave New World (5.1 mix)
40 Dead London (5.1 mix)
41 Epilogue, Part 1 (5.1 mix)
42 Epilogue, Part 2 (NASA) (5.1 mix)
43 ULLAdubULLA (Papa Ootzie remix)
44 Original Spanish Parson Scream Out-takes
45 Original Parson Scream Out-takes
46 The Spirit of Guitars (guitars and strings from The Spirit of Man)
47 The Spirited Man (strings and acoustic guitar alternative)
48 German Journalist and Parson Out-takes
49 'Outcries' (from The Spirit of Man)
50 The Spirit of Man (Beth is killed)
51 The Spirit of 'Mayan' (Parson outtakes)
52 Spanish Journalist and Parson Scream Out-take
53 "And There Was Nothing I Could Do to Prevent It" (out-takes and master)
54 Regressing Bar Count
55 Original 40" Radio Commercial
56 The Spanish Artilleryman's Plan (from Brave New World)
57 The Artilleryman's "I've Got a Plan!" Out-takes (from Brave New World)
58 "Less Piano and More Air, Please!"
59 Parson Nathaniel (2005 revisited version)
60 Bar Count (from Dead London)
61 Original 75" Radio Commercial
62 The Four Narrators (The Red Weed)
63 The Four Narrators (The Earth Belonged to the Martians)
64 NASA Epilogue Spanish Version
65 Breathless Out-take (from Dead London)

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