La Pieva Lyrics in English Barbara Pravi

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song La Pieva by Barbara Pravi from French to English.

Back home we talk with the heart

We know kindness without judgment

Yes, back home

When we reach out our hands

It's to offer what's inside

Back home there are a thousand and one nights

Our eyes sweat gold and fire

There are tables filled with fruit

Lips have my elders' accent

Back home some roll their r's

Others talk little or talk loud

Whether they come

From the snows or the deserts

They all took the North one day

We tell each other ancient fables

That pass from memory to memory

We know where our roots grow

We're not ashamed of our history

I come from everywhere

Back home people sow, sow

They make the seeds bloom

So they become life

I come from everywhere

Back home people love each other

Love each other

Differences are beautiful

Since I'm alive

In my blood there's war

Loss and departures

But above all there's love

Love

In my blood mingle

Peoples and mist

But there's only love

That truly tells my story

Back home how many destinies

Deserve to be heard

And even if it's nothing to you

How many of us have known

Those boats we were forced to take

Toward lands

With unknown tongues

The life we had to relearn

To forget what we had known

Back home

There are those trains

That rolled straight to death

Back home, there are real ties

In hundreds

Of thousands of ports

Back home there's also a gypsy

Who sang at night by the fireside

I carry her name

I raise her flame

When I stand there

Before your eyes

I come from everywhere

Back home people sow, sow

They make the seeds bloom

So they become life

I come from everywhere

Back home people love each other

Love each other

Differences are beautiful

Since I'm alive

In my blood there's war

Loss and departures

But above all there's love

Love

In my blood mingle

Peoples and mist

But there's only love

That truly tells my story

If there's only one thing to keep

It's that back home it's about sharing

Of course it's not

Always rosy

But we've got the heart as heritage

Back home there's transmission

It smells of the city, it smells of the sea

Money's counted in traditions

In tears on

My grandfather's cheeks

Back home women are strong

Men aren't

Afraid to cry

Our skins are tough

Like bark

Whoever we are we're loved

Back home nobody

Really dies

Because everyone becomes memories

That we sing together

As night falls

Yes, back home the dead

Wear a smile

I come from everywhere

Back home people sow, sow

They make the seeds bloom

So they become life

I come from everywhere

Back home people love each other

Love each other

Differences are beautiful

Since I'm alive

In my blood there's war

Loss and departures

But above all there's love

Love

In my blood mingle

Peoples and mist

But there's only love

That truly tells my story

I come from everywhere

Back home people sow, sow

They make the seeds bloom

So they become life

I come from everywhere

Back home people love each other

Love each other

Differences are beautiful

Since I'm alive

I come from everywhere

Back home people sow, sow

They make the seeds bloom

So they become life

I come from everywhere

Back home people love each other

Love each other

Differences are beautiful

Since I'm alive

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SONG MEANING

Barbara Pravi’s chanson La Pieva is a vibrant celebration of home, not as a single place on a map but as a rich tapestry woven from countless cultures, memories and emotions; through images of overflowing fruit tables, rolled r’s, ancient fables and gitanes singing by the fire, she paints a world where people “sow seeds” of kindness, nurture them into life and greet every difference as something beautiful; even when her blood carries echoes of war, exile and loss, the chorus rises to remind us that love is the truest storyteller of her lineage, turning pain into shared songs, binding the living and the departed in one inclusive family and inviting the listener to cherish their own roots while opening their arms to others.

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