Le Jour D'après Lyrics in English Grand Corps Malade
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Le Jour D'après by Grand Corps Malade from French to English.
She's nine
Yet she doesn't have a child's life anymore
She's been living for months
Inside these four white walls
She knows exactly what she's got
And she knows exactly what she wants
She's lost weight
She's lost her hair
She goes from one treatment to the next
The treatments, the protocols
While all her friends
Play in the schoolyard
She'd give everything
To join them for a few hours
Sometimes she screams
Often she cries
"Patience and courage"
Her parents keep saying
They tell themselves too
At night when they part
She finds some patience
And her courage is palpable
She draws a strength that only
Kids are capable of
So she laughs
She invents stories
She thinks only of the future
She invents hopes
The warrior's gonna heal
Real life is close
From the top of her ivory tower
She watches the day after
He'd worked for twenty years
In that factory
Fired overnight
By an anonymous letter
Bought by a big group
A shareholders' story
Several are in his position
An ordinary tragedy
With the installments to pay
And piles of bills
He quickly decided
To sell his car
But without it and without a degree
Far from the codes and far from the city
At fifty
Finding work is hard
It's the climb into misery
An endless spiral
He's kicked out of his flat
Before the winter truce
The first nights on the street
Were the toughest
But later, strangely
He didn't fear his future anymore
He taps into a strength
That survivors know well
He tells himself we stop being afraid
Once we've got nothing left
He'll pull through soon
He feels it, he's ready
He's looking for training
And watches the day after
He's riding back on a scooter
From his twentieth birthday party
Because of a reckless driver
Because of bad weather
It doesn't happen only to others
It's not a myth
After his accident
They amputate both his legs
He spends a year
Thinking back to that night
Then stops going over and over
Those karma stories
With his carbon legs
The future becomes real
He even wants to play sports again
And watches the day after
To all the worn-out
The crash victims
The weakened
The unlucky for a day
Those with no choice
The forced warriors
Those who carry their cross
The obligated heroes
Those who refuse their fate
And change their story
And those who turn the need to believe
Into victory
To those whose future
Is sometimes on hold
Those who can see the day after
And those who didn't make it
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