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Danser Encore

-Refrain-
Nous on veut continuer à danser encore
Voir nos pensées enlacer nos corps
Passer nos vies sur une grille d'accords
Oh, non non non non non non
Nous on veut continuer à danser encore
Voir nos pensées enlacer nos corps
Passer nos vies sur une grille d'accords
 
Nous sommes des oiseaux de passage
Jamais dociles ni vraiment sages
Nous ne faisons pas allégeance
À l'aube en toutes circonstances
Nous venons briser le silence
 
Et quand le soir à la télé
Monsieur le bon roi a parlé
Venu annoncer la sentence
Nous faisons preuve d'irrévérence
Mais toujours avec élégance
 
-Refrain-
 
Auto-métro-boulot-conso
Auto attestation qu'on signe
Absurdité sur ordonnance
Et malheur à celui qui pense
Et malheur à celui qui danse
 
Chaque mesure autoritaire
Chaque relent sécuritaire
Voit s'envoler notre confiance
Ils font preuve de tant d'insistance
Pour confiner notre conscience
 
-Refrain-
 
Ne soyons pas impressionnables
Par tous ces gens déraisonnables
Vendeurs de peur en abondance
Sachons les tenir à distance
Angoissants, jusqu'à l'indécence
 
Pour notre santé mentale
Sociale et environnementale
Nos sourires, notre intelligence
Ne soyons pas sans résistance
Les instruments de leur démence
 
-Refrain-
 
Translation

To keep on dancing

Chorus:
We want to keep on dancing
See our thoughts embrace our bodies
Spend our lives on a chord grid
Oh, no no no no no no
We want to keep on dancing
See our thoughts embrace our bodies
Spend our lives on a chord grid
 
We are birds of passage
Never docile nor really wise
We do not pledge allegiance
At dawn in all circumstances
We come to break the silence
 
And when in the evening on TV
The good king has spoken
Come to announce the sentence
We show irreverence
But always with elegance
 
-Chorus-
 
Drive, subway, work, purchase
Self-attestation that we sign
Nonsense on prescription
And woe to the one who thinks
And woe to the one who dances
 
Every measure of authority
Every whiff of security
Sees our confidence vanish
They show so much insistence
To confine our conscience
 
-Chorus-
 
Let's not be impressed
By all these unreasonable people
Sellers of fear in abundance
Harrowing to the point of indecency
 
Let's keep them at bay
For our mental health
Our social and environmental well-being
Our smiles, our intelligence
Let's not be without resistance
The instruments of their insanity.
 
-Chorus-
 
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Comments
SarasvatiSarasvati
   Mon, 19/04/2021 - 19:44

The source lyrics have been updated. Please review your translation

john.c.wright1john.c.wright1    Mon, 03/05/2021 - 19:52

Does "une grille d'accords" mean "a chord grid" or does in mean "a grate (or fence) of 'okays'."

EmilyinthewoodsEmilyinthewoods    Mon, 10/05/2021 - 08:26

Hello all, here below is an attempt at a translation that works as a song in English, with rhythm and rhyme. I hope it has kept to the spirit of the original and might be useful to anyone wanting to sing it in English!

Chorus
We still want to keep on dancing,
Feel our bodies and minds entwining,
Feel soul and life are harmonising.

Oh no no no no no no

We are birds just flying free,
Breathing in our liberty
We are bound by no one,
We will never let you clip our wings,
To proclaim this truth our spirit sings.

When we hear them on TV
Saying you can't be with me,
We will not be daunted,
To this rule we'll show irreverence,
But we'll do it all with elegance

Chorus

We know lockdown's not the way
But still restrictions every day
can you see the madness?
It is fear that stops us thinking clear
It is fear that stops us dancing here

All these rules just bind us tight
Loss of freedom isn't right
We don't trust the reasons,
Pushing fear into our families
Just to keep us hiding quietly.

Chorus

Let us not all be impressed
By these unreasonable requests
That keep the fear flowing.
Let us stand up to them fearlessly,
Let us keep our minds and bodies free.

For the sake of sanity
For precious life and liberty
For joyfulness and healing,
Let us stand up to this madness here,
Let our courage and resistance cheer

Chorus

EmilyinthewoodsEmilyinthewoods    Mon, 10/05/2021 - 08:26

Hello all, here below is an attempt at a translation that works as a song in English, with rhythm and rhyme. I hope it has kept to the spirit of the original and might be useful to anyone wanting to sing it in English!

Chorus
We still want to keep on dancing,
Feel our bodies and minds entwining,
Feel soul and life are harmonising.

Oh no no no no no no

We are birds just flying free,
Breathing in our liberty
We are bound by no one,
We will never let you clip our wings,
To proclaim this truth our spirit sings.

When we hear them on TV
Saying you can't be with me,
We will not be daunted,
To this rule we'll show irreverence,
But we'll do it all with elegance

Chorus

We know lockdown's not the way
But still restrictions every day
can you see the madness?
It is fear that stops us thinking clear
It is fear that stops us dancing here

All these rules just bind us tight
Loss of freedom isn't right
We don't trust the reasons,
Pushing fear into our families
Just to keep us hiding quietly.

Chorus

Let us not all be impressed
By these unreasonable requests
That keep the fear flowing.
Let us stand up to them fearlessly,
Let us keep our minds and bodies free.

For the sake of sanity
For precious life and liberty
For joyfulness and healing,
Let us stand up to this madness here,
Let our courage and resistance cheer

Chorus

Naama21Naama21    Fri, 01/10/2021 - 16:05

A better title: Dancing still. Complete first verse: We want to keep on dancing still