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Seuls et vaincus

Paroles de Christiane Taubira

Vous finirez seuls et vaincus sourds aux palpitations du monde
À ses hoquets ses hauts ses bas ses haussements d'épaules veules
Au recensement des ossements qui tapissent le fond des eaux

Vous finirez seuls et vaincus aveugles aux débris tenaces
De ces vies qui têtues s'enlacent de ces amours qui ne se lassеnt
Même lacérées de sе hisser à la cime des songeries

Vous finirez seuls et vaincus grands éructants rudimentaires
Insouciants face à nos errances sur la rude écale de la terre
Indifférents aux pulsations qui lâchent laisse à l'espérance

Vous finirez seuls et vaincus car longue longue est la mémoire
Des pieds des peaux des au revoirs et de ces temps itinérants
Où devisant et divisant vous créez un monde en noir et blanc

Vous finirez seuls et vaincus vos cris vos cors et vos crédos
L'éclat de nos vies entêtées éblouira vos en-dedans

Et vos enfants joyeux et vifs feront rondes et farandoles
Avec nos enfants et leurs chants et s'aimant sans y prendre garde
Vous puniront en vous offrant des petits-enfants chatoyants

Vous finirez seuls et vaincus car invincible est notre ardeur
Et si ardent notre présent incandescent notre avenir
Grâce à la tendresse qui survit à c'passé simple et composé

While you're holding on to your bones
Holding on to what you know
We won't make the same mistakes
Stakes are high we claim our fates

While you're holding on to your bones (seuls)
Holding on to what you know
We won't make the same mistakes (seuls)
Stakes are high we claim our fates

While you're holding on to your bones (seuls)
Holding on to what you know (vaincus)
We won't make the same mistakes (seuls)
Stakes are high we claim our fates

Vous finirez seuls et vaincus

Alone and Defeated

Lyrics by Christiane Taubira

You will end up alone and defeated, deaf to the world's palpitations
To its hiccups, its ups and downs, its feeble shrugs
To the census of the bones that line the bottom of the waters

You will end up alone and defeated, blind to the tenacious debris
Of these lives that stubbornly intertwine, of these loves that never tire
Even torn, to climb to the peak of reverie

You will end up alone and defeated, great eructations rudimentary
Careless in the face of our wanderings on the rough scale of the earth
Indifferent to the pulsations that let go, leaving room for hope

You will end up alone and defeated because long, long is the memory
Of the feet, of the skins, of the goodbyes and of these itinerant times
Where, chatting and dividing, you create a world in black and white

You will end up alone and defeated, your cries, your horns and your credos
The brilliance of our stubborn lives will dazzle your insides

And your children, joyful and lively, will form circles and farandoles
With our children and their songs, and loving each other without paying attention
Will punish you by giving you shimmering grandchildren

You will end up alone and defeated because our ardor is invincible
And our present so ardent, our future incandescent
Thanks to the tenderness that survives the simple and compound past

While you're holding on to your bones
Holding on to what you know
We won't make the same mistakes
Stakes are high we claim our fates

While you're holding on to your bones (alone)
Holding on to what you know
We won't make the same mistakes (alone)
Stakes are high we claim our fates

While you're holding on to your bones (alone)
Holding on to what you know (defeated)
We won't make the same mistakes (alone)
Stakes are high we claim our fates

You will end up alone and defeated