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La niaise

Voilà le temps de partir
Sans avoir personne où aller.
Je sais pas quoi construire,
Mais pas d'envie, c'est pas de regrets.
 
Voilà le temps de vomir
Sur cet amas de gueules en biais
À qui je sais plus quoi sourire,
À qui je sais plus quoi causer.
 
On en a bien parlé, de l'époque,
Et de ces enfants qui savent plus aimer,
Mais comme faut bien vider les stocks
La logistique fait des bébés.
 
La niaise voudrait pas virer conne
Ça tient en peu de subtilité.
Il parait qu'à trop croire en l'homme
Y en a quelques-unes qui se font baiser.
 
Prends tes carnets et puis deviens
Tout ce que t'as jamais supporté
Écris l'angoisse et le chagrin,
Personne ne meurt sans se vider.
 
On s'est dit, faut partir de rien
Et puis se faire tout seul,
Avec du vide plein les mains.
Tu l'imagines, ma petite gueule ?
 
Le sourire paumé en chemin
Parce que ça plait plus à personne,
Quand la gosse se change en chien
Et que le chien grogne.
 
On en bien parlé, de la foi,
Celle qu'on met là où on peut,
Mais quand y a de la place pour une croix,
Y a des chances que ça sonne creux.
 
Vous me direz : « Il te reste ta guitare,
Ton amour, c'est ta musique ».
Moi je vous dis que c'est mon désespoir :
Une vieille fille alcoolique
 
Qui demande à me voir tous les soirs,
À m'inspecter les tripes.
Elle prend ce qu'elle veut et elle se marre
À le trainer en public.
 
Ça devait être de ces chansons
Où le bout d'espoir se pointe à la fin,
Qui vous laisse pas sauter du pont
Sans harnais ni coussin.
 
Traduzione

Silly girl

The time has come to leave,
without anyone to go to.
I don't know what to plan for,
but no desire means no regrets.
 
The time has come to puke
on this bunch of surly faces,
to whom I no longer know what to smile,
to whom I no longer know what to say.
 
There has been much talk about the era
and these kids who no longer know how to love,
but since there are stocks to liquidate,
the logistics churns out babies.
 
The silly girl would rather not turn stupid,
just a small matter of subtlety.
Some say for too much faith in men1
some girls eventually get screwed.
 
Pick your notebook and become
all that you could never stand.
Write down the angst and the sorrow,
nobody dies without emptying oneself.
 
We thought we would start from scratch
and be successful on our own,
with hands full of emptiness,
can you picture my pretty face?
 
Smile lost along the way
because nobody likes it anymore,
as the kid turns into a dog,
and the dog starts growling.
 
There had indeed been talks about faith,
the one you put where you can,
but when there is room for a cross,
chances are it will sound hollow.
 
You might say "you still have your guitar,
your love is your music".
Now I tell you, music is my desperation:
a drunkard of a spinster
 
who demands to see me every night
to assess my guts.
She takes whatever she pleases and has her fun
exposing it in front of the audience.
 
It should have been one of these songs
where the tiny bit of hope shows up in the end,
that won't let you jump off the bridge
without a harness nor a cushion.
 
  • 1. "coire en l'homme" generally means "have faith in mankind" but "homme" can also mean "man" as opposite to "woman"
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BratBrat    Lun, 18/09/2017 - 14:54

BTW, are you aware of the difference between subtility and subtlety? There is a subtlety in the matter, indeed. ;)

BratBrat    Dom, 17/09/2017 - 15:12

an drunkard of a spinster - that's rather embarrassing... Did you mean a drunk spinster?

BratBrat    Lun, 18/09/2017 - 06:36

Oh, a drunkard is clear enough. I simply did not know how to handle "an": as "a" or "and"... ;)

BratBrat    Dom, 17/09/2017 - 15:15

but when there is room for a cross,
chances are it will sound hollow
.

Maybe there is still a chance that it will sound hollow?

BratBrat    Lun, 18/09/2017 - 06:45

Je veux dire, c'est intéressant.
Nevertheless I suppose it is hard enough to make a close translation in English, but since I'm null expert in French... I'd rather wait for some Frenglish Guru to explain this... :) As for me, I have some vision of how to translate this into Russian, as well...

BratBrat    Mar, 19/09/2017 - 15:40

I'd be pleased to see it too, but firstly I should be fully aware of the meaning of each line... And since I'm a sucker in French... It will take some time and some effort...

BratBrat    Dom, 17/09/2017 - 15:30

without a harness nor a cushion.
It'd be better to say without a harness or a cushion.
'Cause nor usually requires neither or any other kind of negation before it, AFAIK.

BratBrat    Lun, 18/09/2017 - 07:01
petit élève wrote:

Mmm... I don't think so. "neither" is often omitted for brievty, as far as I know.
Maybe a native could confirm that?

I'm neither a native, nor a linguist, but I can confirm this. Sometimes I see the instances of such an isolated use of "nor". But I think it's a kind of vernacular... Does the song have such a vernacular mood in French? I don't know, but if it does, the use of vernaculars in translations will be encouraged.
P.S. Once upon a time in a verse I saw a construction like "He can either suppose, nor know" (I don't remember exactly) - riddled enough; compressed, combined of two sentences in order to match the complicated rhythm of the verse.

BratBrat    Mar, 19/09/2017 - 12:17

The main thought was the only thing he could do was either suppose, or assume; either reckon, or suspect, but he could not know exactly. Either there pointed to the plethora of possible variants.

azucarinhoazucarinho    Dom, 17/09/2017 - 18:43

With neither a harness nor a cushion ? [either/or ; neither/nor]

TiborTibor    Lun, 18/09/2017 - 15:02

neither a x nor AN y... Actually...

BratBrat    Mar, 19/09/2017 - 12:05

Some say for too much faith in men some girls eventually get screwed.
If you change screwed into banged for the purpose of rhyming, you'll get a new proverb... ;)