Avec Un Crayon Lyrics in English Les Enfantastiques

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Avec Un Crayon by Les Enfantastiques from French to English.

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With a pencil, with a pencil

We're stronger

Than with a rifle, than with a cannon

With a pencil, with a pencil

We prove them wrong

All the rifles, all the cannons

Nobody will ever stop

The poet, the writer

A pen in hand

To fight for the right

To always speak out

To defend an idea

Fanatics, dictators

Their militias, their prisons

Will never defeat

All the comics, the mockers

Their humor, their satires

That make you die laughing

With a pencil, with a pencil

We're stronger

Than with a rifle, than with a cannon

With a pencil, with a pencil

We prove them wrong

All the rifles, all the cannons

No army will silence

Singers and musicians

Inventors of refrains

When they tell the whole world

Till they're out of breath

That we must beat hate

In every country, the artists

Have always risen

To defend the dream

Of a free and pacifist world

Where billions of hands

Brandish scrolls

With a pencil, with a pencil

We're stronger

Than with a rifle, than with a cannon

With a pencil, with a pencil

We prove them wrong

All the rifles, all the cannons

With a pencil, with a pencil

We're stronger

Than with a rifle, than with a cannon

With a pencil, with a pencil

We prove them wrong

All the rifles, all the cannons

With a pencil, with a pencil

We're stronger

Than with a rifle, than with a cannon

With a pencil, with a pencil

We prove them wrong

All the rifles, all the cannons

With a pencil, with a pencil

We're stronger

Than with a rifle, than with a cannon

With a pencil, with a pencil

We prove them wrong

All the rifles, all the cannons

With a pencil, with a pencil

We're stronger

Than with a rifle, than with a cannon

With a pencil, with a pencil

We prove them wrong

All the rifles, all the cannons

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SONG MEANING

Bold, colourful and defiantly upbeat, Avec Un Crayon is Les Enfantastiques’ rallying cry that a simple pencil can outshine any weapon. Over a playful melody, the children chant that writers, poets and cartoonists are “stronger than guns and cannons,” turning the classroom tool we all know into a superhero for free speech. Every repeat of avec un crayon feels like raising a tiny flag of imagination, reminding us that jokes, songs and stories can cut through fear far better than bullets can.

The lyrics paint a lively parade of artists—comedians, singers, musicians—standing shoulder to shoulder to “defend the dream of a free and peaceful world.” Dictators, prisons and fanatics try to silence them, yet the song insists they will “never succeed” as long as ideas keep flowing from pencils. It is an energetic lesson in courage: pick up your crayon, share your voice, and watch creativity conquer hatred.

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