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Un homme libre [I'm Still Here] (European French)

Toi qui crois que la terre est ronde
Tu ne te doutes pas une seconde
Que ton histoire pourrait changer...
 
Si tu ne veux plus rester dans l'ombre
Avant qu'un beau jour ne fondent
Tous tes espoirs, que tu n'te sentes un peu partout
Étranger...
 
Viens, il existe un nouveau monde
Où la lune est toujours blonde
Et les étoiles restent allumées...
 
Ne crois pas tout ce qu'on raconte
Ce qu'on peut lire dans les contes
Si tu veux voir la liberté...
 
Refrain :
Prends entre tes mains ton destin
Mets les voiles dès ce matin
Pour la planète où tu veux vivre...
Prends le large rien ne te retient
C'est ta vie elle t'appartient
Si tu veux être un homme libre...
 
Viens, tu verras la route est longue
Parfois le ciel devient sombre
Mais les nuages sont encore loin...
 
Et même si de fatigue tu tombes
Dans ta course vagabonde
Aie le courage de continuer ton chemin...
 
Dis-toi que rien n'est écrit
L'avenir se construit
Il n'y a que toi pour savoir quelles sont vraiment tes envies...
Il n'y a que toi pour savoir quel sens donner à ta vie...
 
Refrain
 
Rien qu'un homme enfin libre
Enfin libre
Enfin libre
 
Translation

A Free Man

You who believes that the earth is round
You don't imagine for a second
That your story could change...
 
If you don't want to stay in the shadows anymore
Before a beautiful day melts
All of your hopes, that you feel a bit like a stranger everywhere...
 
Come, there is a new world
Where the moon is always yellow
And the stars remain alight...
 
Don't believe everything they tell you
What you can read in stories
If you want to taste freedom...
 
[Chorus]:
Take your destiny into your hands
Set sail this morning
For the planet where you want to live...
There's nothing holding you back
It's your life and it belongs to you
If you want to be a free man...
 
Come, you will see the road is long
Sometimes the sky becomes dark
But the clouds are still far away...
 
And even if you collapse of fatigue
On your vagabond journey
Have the courage to continue on your path...
 
Tell yourself that nothing is written
The future can be built
There is no one but you to know what your true desires are...
There is no one but you to know what kind of life you should live...
 
[Chorus]
 
Nothing but a finally free man
Finally free
Finally free
 
Idioms from "Un homme libre [I'm ..."
Comments
crimson_anticscrimson_antics    Fri, 23/11/2012 - 03:37

"Before a beautiful day melts"
--> it is the hopes which melt, actually, not the day.

"Set the sails of this morning"
--> more like 'sail away this morning'.

"Take the large nothing that holds you"
--> 'there's nothing that holds you (back)."

"L'avenir se construit"
--> means that it's possible to build your own future.

:)

shisashisa
   Fri, 23/11/2012 - 03:43

I know that it's the hopes that melt, and the part about building your own future, but I'll try to make both clearer. As always, thank you :)

crimson_anticscrimson_antics    Fri, 23/11/2012 - 03:49

Okay, I wasn't sure about the melting thing because it sounds like it's the day which is making the hopes melt.

Also, did you see my comment about the 'fussy lover' thing on the other song?

crimson_anticscrimson_antics    Fri, 23/11/2012 - 13:04

Also, 'un beau jour' means 'one of these days'.

shisashisa
   Fri, 23/11/2012 - 14:13

Oh, okay! Now I think everything makes sense.