Florence Lyrics in English Daniel Lavoie , Bruno Pelletier
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Florence by Daniel Lavoie from French to English.
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Parlez-moi de Florence et de la Renaissance
Tell me about Florence and the Renaissance
Parlez-moi de Bramante
Tell me about Bramante
Et de l'Enfer de Dante
And Dante's Inferno
A Florence on raconte
In Florence they tell
Que le terre serait ronde
That the earth would be round
Et qu'il y aurait un autre
And there would be another
Continent en ce monde
Continent in this world
Des bateaux sont partis déjà sur l'océan
Boats have already set sail on the ocean
Pour y chercher la porte de
To look for the door
La route des Indes
The route to India
Luther va réécrire le Nouveau Testament
Luther will rewrite the New Testament
Et nous sommes à l'aube d'un
And we are at the dawn of a
Monde qui se scinde
World that is splitting
Un dénommé Gutenberg
A man named Gutenberg
A changé la face du monde
Changed the face of the world
Sur les presse de Nuremberg
On the Nuremberg presses
On imprime à chaque seconde
We print every second
Des poèmes sur du papier
Poems on paper
Des discours et des pamphlets
Speeches and pamphlets
Des nouvelles idées qui vont tout balayer
New ideas that will sweep everything away
Les petites choses toujours viennent
The little things always come
À bout des grandes
At the end of the big ones
Et la littérature tuera l'architecture
And literature will kill architecture
Les livres des écoles tueront les cathédrales
School books will kill cathedrals
La Bible tuera l'Eglise et
The Bible will kill the Church and
L'homme tuera Dieu
Man will kill God
Ceci tuera cela
This will kill that
Des bateaux sont partis déjà sur l'océan
Boats have already set sail on the ocean
Pour y chercher la porte de
To look for the door
La route des Indes
The route to India
Luther va réécrire le Nouveau Testament
Luther will rewrite the New Testament
Et nous sommes à l'aube d'un
And we are at the dawn of a
Monde qui se scinde
World that is splitting
Ceci tuera cela ceci tuera cela
This will kill this this will kill that
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