Lyrics and translation Paul Simon - Born At The Right Time - Live
Never
been
lonely
Je
n'ai
jamais
été
seul
Never
been
lied
to
Je
n'ai
jamais
été
trompé
Never
had
to
scuffle
in
fear
Je
n'ai
jamais
eu
à
me
battre
dans
la
peur
Nothing
denied
to
Rien
ne
m'a
été
refusé
Born
at
the
instant
Né
au
moment
précis
The
church
bells
chime
Où
les
cloches
de
l'église
sonnent
The
whole
world
whispering
Le
monde
entier
murmure
You
born
at
the
right
time
Tu
es
né
au
bon
moment
Down
among
the
reeds
and
rushes
Au
milieu
des
roseaux
et
des
joncs
A
baby
boy
was
found
Un
petit
garçon
a
été
trouvé
His
eyes
as
clear
as
centuries
Ses
yeux
aussi
clairs
que
des
siècles
His
silky
hair
was
brown
Ses
cheveux
soyeux
étaient
bruns
Never
been
lonely
Je
n'ai
jamais
été
seul
Never
been
lied
to
Je
n'ai
jamais
été
trompé
Never
had
to
scuffle
in
fear
Je
n'ai
jamais
eu
à
me
battre
dans
la
peur
Nothing
denied
to
Rien
ne
m'a
été
refusé
Born
at
the
instant
Né
au
moment
précis
The
church
bells
chime
Où
les
cloches
de
l'église
sonnent
The
whole
world
whispering
Le
monde
entier
murmure
You
born
at
the
right
time
Tu
es
né
au
bon
moment
Oh,
oh,
whoah
Oh,
oh,
whoah
Whoa,
oh-oh
Whoa,
oh-oh
Whoah,
yeah,
oh
Whoah,
yeah,
oh
Me
and
my
buddies
we
are
travelling
people
Moi
et
mes
copains,
nous
sommes
des
voyageurs
We
like
to
go
down
to
restaurant
row
On
aime
aller
dans
le
quartier
des
restaurants
Spend
those
Euro-dollars
Dépenser
ces
euros
All
the
way
from
Washington
to
Tokyo
Tout
le
chemin
de
Washington
à
Tokyo
But
I
see
them
in
the
airport
lounge
Mais
je
les
vois
dans
le
salon
de
l'aéroport
Is
upon
their
mother's
breast
Sur
le
sein
de
leur
mère
And
they
follow
me
with
open
eyes
Et
ils
me
suivent
des
yeux
ouverts
Their
uninvited
guest
Leurs
invités
non
désirés
Never
been
lonely
Je
n'ai
jamais
été
seul
Never
been
lied
to
Je
n'ai
jamais
été
trompé
Never
had
to
scuffle
in
fear
Je
n'ai
jamais
eu
à
me
battre
dans
la
peur
Nothing
denied
to
Rien
ne
m'a
été
refusé
Born
at
the
instant
Né
au
moment
précis
The
church
bells
chime
Où
les
cloches
de
l'église
sonnent
And
my
whole
world
whispering
Et
mon
monde
entier
murmure
Born
at
the
right
time
Né
au
bon
moment
You
are
born
at
the
right
time,
oh
Tu
es
né
au
bon
moment,
oh
Born
at
the
right
time,
whoa,
ooh-oh,
whoa
Né
au
bon
moment,
whoa,
ooh-oh,
whoa
Whoa,
whoa,
ooh-whoa
Whoa,
whoa,
ooh-whoa
Too
many
people
on
the
bus
from
the
airport
Trop
de
gens
dans
le
bus
de
l'aéroport
There
was
too
many
holes
in
the
crust
of
the
earth
Il
y
avait
trop
de
trous
dans
la
croûte
terrestre
The
planet
groans
every
time
it
registers
another
birth
La
planète
gémit
à
chaque
nouvelle
naissance
But
down
among
the
reeds
and
rushes
Mais
au
milieu
des
roseaux
et
des
joncs
A
baby
girl
was
found
Une
petite
fille
a
été
trouvée
Her
eyes
as
clear
as
centuries
Ses
yeux
aussi
clairs
que
des
siècles
Her
silky
hair
was
brown
Ses
cheveux
soyeux
étaient
bruns
(Never
been
lonely)
Whoah,
whoah
(Je
n'ai
jamais
été
seul)
Whoah,
whoah
(Never
been
lied
to)
Whoah,
whoah
(Je
n'ai
jamais
été
trompé)
Whoah,
whoah
(Never
had
to
scuffle
in
fear)
Whoah,
whoah
(Je
n'ai
jamais
eu
à
me
battre
dans
la
peur)
Whoah,
whoah
(Nothing
denied
to)
(Rien
ne
m'a
été
refusé)
Born
at
the
instant
Né
au
moment
précis
The
church
bells
chime
Où
les
cloches
de
l'église
sonnent
And
the
whole
world
whispering
Et
le
monde
entier
murmure
You
born
at
the
right
time
Tu
es
né
au
bon
moment
You
born
at
the
right
time,
you
are
Tu
es
né
au
bon
moment,
tu
es
You
born
at
the
right
time,
well
Tu
es
né
au
bon
moment,
bien
You
born
at
the
right
time,
whoah-oh,
ooh-oh
Tu
es
né
au
bon
moment,
whoah-oh,
ooh-oh
Born
at
the
instant
Né
au
moment
précis
The
church
bells
chime
Où
les
cloches
de
l'église
sonnent
The
whole
world
whispering
Le
monde
entier
murmure
You
born
at
the
right
time,
mmh
Tu
es
né
au
bon
moment,
mmh
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The Story of "Graceland" as Told By Paul Simon
2 A Most Peculiar Man
3 Oh, Marion
4 I Know What I Know
5 Duncan (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
6 St. Judy's Comet
7 Was a Sunny Day
8 Congratulations
9 Run That Body Down
10 All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints (with Los Lobos)
11 Tenderness
12 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
13 Hobo's Blues
14 Satin Summer Nights
15 Time Is an Ocean
16 That Was Your Mother
17 Father and Daughter
18 Adiós Hermanos
19 Sunday Afternoon
20 American Tune (Unfinished Demo)
21 A Church Is Burning
22 All Because of You (Outtake)
23 April Come She Will
24 Armistice Day
25 Bernadette
26 Born At the Right Time
27 Can't Run But
28 Everything Put Together Falls Apart
29 God Bless the Absentee
30 He Was My Brother
31 Homeless (demo)
32 I Don't Believe
33 How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
34 Jonah
35 Kathy's Song
36 Killer Wants to Go to College
37 Killer Wants to Go to College II
38 Leaves That Are Green
39 Long, Long Day
40 Night Game
41 Nobody
42 Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
43 One-Trick Pony
44 Patterns
45 Proof
46 Quiet
47 Señorita with a Necklace of Tears
48 She Moves On
49 That's Me
50 That's Where I Belong (Live)
51 That's Why God Made the Movies
52 The Boy In the Bubble
53 The Rhythm of the Saints
54 Trailways Bus
55 Virgil
56 You're Kind
57 Dazzling Blue
58 Getting Ready for Christmas Day
59 Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
60 Rewrite
61 Crazy Love, Vol. II
62 The Afterlife
63 Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
64 Stranded in a Limosine
65 I'd Do It for Your Love
66 Thelma (Bonus Track)
67 Hearts And Bones - Live
68 The Sound of Silence - Live
69 Amulet
70 The Sound Of Silence
71 Shoplifting Clothes - Bonus Track
72 Gumboots (with Boyoyo Boys)
73 El Condor Pasa (If I Could) [with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba] (Live)
74 Born In Puerto Rico (Demo) [with Jose Feliciano] (Bonus Track)
75 The Coast (Work-In-Progress) (Bonus Track)
76 Can I Forgive Him
77 A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)
78 Homeless (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
79 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War
80 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
81 Allergies
82 Cars Are Cars
83 Hearts and Bones
84 Song About the Moon
85 Think Too Much (b)
86 The Late Great Johnny Ace
87 When Numbers Get Serious
88 The Obvious Child - Live
89 The Boy in the Bubble - Live
90 She Moves On (Live)
91 Born At The Right Time - Live
92 Train in the Distance - Live
93 Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Live
94 I Know What I Know (Live)
95 The Cool, Cool River - Live
96 Bridge over Troubled Water - Live
97 Proof (Live)
98 The Coast (Live)
99 Graceland - Live
100 You Can Call Me Al - Live
101 Still Crazy After All These Years - Live
102 Loves Me Like a Rock (Live)
103 Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Live
104 Late in the Evening - Live
105 America (Live)
106 The Boxer (Live)
107 Cecilia (Live)
108 Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (Alternate Version)
109 All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints - Early Version
110 You Can Call Me Al - Demo
111 Crazy Love - Demo
112 The Coast
113 Further To Fly
114 The Cool, Cool River
115 Spirit Voices
116 Old (Live)
117 Hurricane Eye (Live)
118 How Can You Live in the Northeast?
119 Everything About It Is a Love Song
120 Outrageous
121 Sure Don't Feel Like Love
122 Wartime Prayers
123 Beautiful
124 Another Galaxy
125 Love and Hard Times
126 Hurricane Eye
127 Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
128 The Vampires
129 Quality
130 That's Where I Belong
131 Darling Lorraine
132 Old
133 You're the One
134 The Teacher
135 Look at That
136 Love & Blessings
137 So Beautiful or so What
138 Paranoia Blues (Unreleased Version)
139 Loves Me Like a Rock (Acoustic Demo)
140 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
141 Homeward Bound (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
142 American Tune (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
143 Duncan (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
144 Papa Hobo
145 I Am a Rock
146 The Side of a Hill
147 A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
148 I Am a Rock - Alternate Version
149 Mother and Child Reunion
150 The Boxer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
151 Mother and Child Reunion (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
152 The Sound of Silence (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
153 Think Too Much (A)
154 Train In the Distance (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
155 The Late Great Johnny Ace (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
156 Ace In the Hole
157 Jesus Is the Answer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
158 Bridge Over Troubled Water (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
159 Loves Me Like a Rock (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
160 America (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
161 Something So Right (Live)
162 My Little Town (with Art Garfunkel)
163 Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy
164 Have a Good Time
165 Silent Eyes
166 Slip Slidin' Away (Demo)
2 A Most Peculiar Man
3 Oh, Marion
4 I Know What I Know
5 Duncan (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
6 St. Judy's Comet
7 Was a Sunny Day
8 Congratulations
9 Run That Body Down
10 All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints (with Los Lobos)
11 Tenderness
12 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (Demo, San Francisco 2/71)
13 Hobo's Blues
14 Satin Summer Nights
15 Time Is an Ocean
16 That Was Your Mother
17 Father and Daughter
18 Adiós Hermanos
19 Sunday Afternoon
20 American Tune (Unfinished Demo)
21 A Church Is Burning
22 All Because of You (Outtake)
23 April Come She Will
24 Armistice Day
25 Bernadette
26 Born At the Right Time
27 Can't Run But
28 Everything Put Together Falls Apart
29 God Bless the Absentee
30 He Was My Brother
31 Homeless (demo)
32 I Don't Believe
33 How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
34 Jonah
35 Kathy's Song
36 Killer Wants to Go to College
37 Killer Wants to Go to College II
38 Leaves That Are Green
39 Long, Long Day
40 Night Game
41 Nobody
42 Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
43 One-Trick Pony
44 Patterns
45 Proof
46 Quiet
47 Señorita with a Necklace of Tears
48 She Moves On
49 That's Me
50 That's Where I Belong (Live)
51 That's Why God Made the Movies
52 The Boy In the Bubble
53 The Rhythm of the Saints
54 Trailways Bus
55 Virgil
56 You're Kind
57 Dazzling Blue
58 Getting Ready for Christmas Day
59 Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
60 Rewrite
61 Crazy Love, Vol. II
62 The Afterlife
63 Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
64 Stranded in a Limosine
65 I'd Do It for Your Love
66 Thelma (Bonus Track)
67 Hearts And Bones - Live
68 The Sound of Silence - Live
69 Amulet
70 The Sound Of Silence
71 Shoplifting Clothes - Bonus Track
72 Gumboots (with Boyoyo Boys)
73 El Condor Pasa (If I Could) [with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba] (Live)
74 Born In Puerto Rico (Demo) [with Jose Feliciano] (Bonus Track)
75 The Coast (Work-In-Progress) (Bonus Track)
76 Can I Forgive Him
77 A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)
78 Homeless (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
79 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War
80 Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
81 Allergies
82 Cars Are Cars
83 Hearts and Bones
84 Song About the Moon
85 Think Too Much (b)
86 The Late Great Johnny Ace
87 When Numbers Get Serious
88 The Obvious Child - Live
89 The Boy in the Bubble - Live
90 She Moves On (Live)
91 Born At The Right Time - Live
92 Train in the Distance - Live
93 Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Live
94 I Know What I Know (Live)
95 The Cool, Cool River - Live
96 Bridge over Troubled Water - Live
97 Proof (Live)
98 The Coast (Live)
99 Graceland - Live
100 You Can Call Me Al - Live
101 Still Crazy After All These Years - Live
102 Loves Me Like a Rock (Live)
103 Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Live
104 Late in the Evening - Live
105 America (Live)
106 The Boxer (Live)
107 Cecilia (Live)
108 Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (Alternate Version)
109 All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints - Early Version
110 You Can Call Me Al - Demo
111 Crazy Love - Demo
112 The Coast
113 Further To Fly
114 The Cool, Cool River
115 Spirit Voices
116 Old (Live)
117 Hurricane Eye (Live)
118 How Can You Live in the Northeast?
119 Everything About It Is a Love Song
120 Outrageous
121 Sure Don't Feel Like Love
122 Wartime Prayers
123 Beautiful
124 Another Galaxy
125 Love and Hard Times
126 Hurricane Eye
127 Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
128 The Vampires
129 Quality
130 That's Where I Belong
131 Darling Lorraine
132 Old
133 You're the One
134 The Teacher
135 Look at That
136 Love & Blessings
137 So Beautiful or so What
138 Paranoia Blues (Unreleased Version)
139 Loves Me Like a Rock (Acoustic Demo)
140 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
141 Homeward Bound (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
142 American Tune (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
143 Duncan (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
144 Papa Hobo
145 I Am a Rock
146 The Side of a Hill
147 A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
148 I Am a Rock - Alternate Version
149 Mother and Child Reunion
150 The Boxer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
151 Mother and Child Reunion (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
152 The Sound of Silence (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
153 Think Too Much (A)
154 Train In the Distance (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
155 The Late Great Johnny Ace (Acoustic Demo) [Bonus Track]
156 Ace In the Hole
157 Jesus Is the Answer (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
158 Bridge Over Troubled Water (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
159 Loves Me Like a Rock (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
160 America (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) (Live)
161 Something So Right (Live)
162 My Little Town (with Art Garfunkel)
163 Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy
164 Have a Good Time
165 Silent Eyes
166 Slip Slidin' Away (Demo)
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