Saint-Etienne Lyrics in English Bernard Lavilliers
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Saint-Etienne by Bernard Lavilliers from French to English.
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On n'est pas d'un pays mais on est d'une ville
We are not from a country but we are from a city
Où la rue artérielle limite le décor
Where the arterial street limits the setting
Les cheminées d'usine hululent à la mort
Factory chimneys hoot to death
La lampe du gardien rigole de mon style
The keeper's lamp laughs at my style
La misère écrasant son mégot sur mon cœur
Misery crushing its butt on my heart
A laissé dans mon sang la trace indélébile
Has left an indelible mark in my blood
Qui a le même son et la même couleur
Who has the same sound and the same color
Que la suie des crassiers, du charbon inutile
Than the soot of the slag heaps, useless coal
Les forges de mes tempes ont pilonné les mots
The forges of my temples pounded the words
J'ai limé de mes mains le creux des évidences
I filed away with my hands the hollow of the obvious
Les mots calaminés crachent des hauts-fourneaux
Calamined words spit out blast furnaces
Mes yeux d'acier trempé inventent le silence
My hardened steel eyes invent silence
Je me soûle à New York et me bats à Paris
I get drunk in New York and fight in Paris
Je balance à Rio et ris à Montréal
I rock in Rio and laugh in Montreal
Mais c'est quand même ici que poussa tout petit
But it is all the same here that grew very small
Cette fleur de grisou à tige de métal
This firedamp flower with a metal stem
On n'est pas d'un pays mais on est d'une ville
We are not from a country but we are from a city
Où la rue artérielle limite le décor
Where the arterial street limits the setting
Les cheminées d'usine hululent à la mort
Factory chimneys hoot to death
La lampe du gardien rigole de mon style
The keeper's lamp laughs at my style
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