L'avenir Est Un Long Passé Lyrics in English Manau
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song L'avenir Est Un Long Passé by Manau from French to English.
Verse 1
A black pupil surrounded by white
The tired face focused on a lieutenant
The order will be given in a few moments
Second assault of the day and Marcel is waiting
He placed a bayonet at the end of his rifle
To combat a 12.7 caliber machine gun
Near its trench, placed 20 or 30 meters away
The butchers' war, we are in 1917
He's been here for so many days!
Verse 1
To see souls fall
So many days already spent on the ladies' path
Marcel feels that the end has come
At the bottom of his trench, his hands began to tremble
The smell of death is felt
There will be no melee, he feels he will die soon
How can a man agree to go into battle?
And when he feels deep inside that he won't come back
Is man an animal?
As at that time evil is already corporal
The lieutenant's hand was raised gently towards the sky
The following
Future is a long past
Future is a long past
Long past, long past, long past
A black pupil surrounded by white
His face waxed, his look is terrifying
Placed a few steps away, Germans
1944 Jean-Marc is a resistance fighter
His mission was to blow up a railway
He who is not a man of action has become a master of war
After the cyclone that hit his mother and father with a yellow star
Idea straight from hell
So many years spent running away
So many days dedicated to fighting anti-Semites
Jean-Marc knows that he no longer has recourse
The cable he placed to blow up the train is far too short
Death is felt, but he has no remorse, how can we define it?
It's the nature of man that pushed him to be like that
Sacrifice yourself for an idea, I think you can't resist
The evil is now general
Of all the occult armed forces of the bad times
Of Germany
In the distance the train approaches and we can distinguish its smoke
The following
Future is a long past
Future is a long past
Long past, long past, long past
A black pupil surrounded by white
This is what I can see in front of the mirror now
I just got up a few moments ago
It's hard to say deep down what I feel
After the night I spent, it was hard to wake up
Everything I could think of before falling asleep
To all these ideas that caused me only problems
Reality and all these images of hatred
So many years spent trying to forget
So many days accumulated and slowly he settled in
I asked myself this morning the question
Is it all starting again, have we lost our minds
Because I saw the evil that slowly takes hold without any morality
Being on TV has become normal for him
Like every time with a new name
After the name of Hitler, I heard the name of the front
And if the future is a long past
I ask you now what do you think?
Like Marcel and Jean-Marc, is my life mapped out?
The rest, is the future a long past?
I ask you what you think
Will I one day see evil at the Elysée
Is France getting bogged down?
Is the future a long past?
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