Vivre Ou Mourir Ensemble Lyrics in English Kery James
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Vivre Ou Mourir Ensemble by Kery James from French to English.
Courage
The storm
The gloom
The shears
It's natural to be afraid, that's where courage is born
How can you dream in color when the future only foretells storms
The patched-up happiness we build vanishes in the grayness
May our hopes cut loose from the madness that shears them
Bloodstained with bitterness, days of darkness
At dawn tinted with mist, exhumes funereal grudges
A choir of sobs hums our afflictions
Carries our burdens, hums our desolation
Hate flirts with us, offers us a dance
Deadly and rhythmic, to the tempo of our vengeance
If dreams of peace surely lie dormant in everyone
You can lose your humanity in a maze of sorrow
How can you reason with soldiers of madness
Fear will trap us for the enemies of mercy
Architects of destruction, masons of horror
Farmers of abomination who mix up beauty and ugliness
Memory and bitterness, thirst for justice and fury
Fire into the crowd bullets as blind as their hearts
Sunk in excess, drowned in vanity
The most ignorant think they're humanity's elite
Fits of anger reveal us to ourselves
You don't know what you'll tolerate until you're facing the extreme
One clap of violence drowns out our fine speeches
And here we are ready to throw France into Eric Zemmour's civil war
It's the game of division, of trade, of terror
How to sink the Nation into unreason then horror
Sordid conductors turn our pain into instruments
Pathetic greedy men who hate more than they love
Those who crave confrontation often ignore its reality
Their arrogance matches their cowardice
They blow on embers while hiding in their comfort
They sing us the Marseillaise as long as death stays scentless
They plan war but will never wear the fatigues
When we run out of graveyards, they'll flee the country
Leaving it to itself, in fire and blood
Behind the flag's colors
Hide these enemies of the Nation
Sowers of trouble, deceitful, neurotic
Venom spitters with sclerosis in their hearts
Uninhibited racists who theorize hate
But even the Nazis had their own intellectuals
Let's learn from the past
Not even 100 years ago the unthinkable became truth
Their words put names
On what their hearts secretly want
They'll only feel soothed once Muslims are hunted down
Once Muslims are jostled, persecuted for their choices
Once Muslims are corralled, executed for their faith
They want to plunge us into total war with no tomorrow
In that, terrorists and they chase the same design
Out of breath, France is holding its breath
Now we realize how precious peace is
Must we lose a blessing to appreciate its value
Do we have to get near the fire to feel its heat
In this globalized world, Baghdad isn't that far anymore
And we've only brushed the horror of their daily lives
The awakening from our carefree years is brutal
How many peoples wake each day under a state of emergency
Filled with compassion when terror lays siege to us
We've got other concerns than enjoying our privileges
From Libya to Syria they repeat the same mistakes
Their foreign policy makes us bleed inside
Barely disguised warlike expansion
Money ambitions masked as humanity
Arbitrary condemnations then unjustified silences
Vulgar use of the concept of freedom
For your own survival, is other people's death vital
Surgical strikes, really? On a hospital
How can you condemn here while funding over there
We're hostages
To your power games you pass off as fights
Blood on your hands, oil in your eyes
The supposed human rights, every day they trample them
They back those who fight them
Fight those they back
Demagogue bureaucrats, schizophrenic politics
Hate sticks to us like a shadow
Since the hawks started shooting the doves
I'm still trying to stay loving
A sane man ruled by madmen
We're out of our depth in this sea of blood
Our wishes for peace swim against the current
Rain may fall on dried-out hearts
You rarely see rocks bloom
Peace is just a ceasefire
Because some laugh at what moves us
While madmen slash innocents
I escape in a child's smile
Each of our nights waits for its sun
Must we die to leave our sleep
It seems we have no choice anymore
We must live or die together
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Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Gregory Kasparian, Alix Jules Mathurin
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