[wi]

Loco Locass

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ألبوم:

Le Québec est mort, vive le Québec!

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[wi]

Left or right, in the end, it's only secondary

One and the same, realistic or united

All endorsers of the suicidal's' manifesto

All dignitaries of the Queen of England

It blows, but there are brothers who,

Instead of fighting, would rather

Get screwed from behind, on all fours

We're not Spartans, you know

We're hungry for a fate in which we have more than a few crumbs

We're hungry, we're hungry for a generous feast

You say it's part of the past, that we already had our mulligan

Or that if it happened, we'd all become hooligans

You deny us as if we didn't exist

Any more than Korrigans1

But down in our organs, we hear "Yes, yes we can!"

Survival isn't enough anymore

Come to us, ye faithful

Onto Tahrir Square2

Not one single day will be spent here without saying it,

We are the people, and the people are free

YES

Are you all ears?

When we talk about our cause

We're all ears

Either we vanish,

Either we blossom

We, the people

It's you, me, us, [wi]!

What do Wadji Mouawad3, Bertrand Cantat4,

Doctor Turcotte5, Zdeno Chara6 have in common?

They're all scapegoats,

They're all fall guys

Of an aimless wrath,

So keeps telling me Clotaire Rapaille7

One last jolt before taking the plunge

Of course, that's what we need

To avoid the scaffold

So we won't back down, we won't stop anytime soon

To wave our ideals like our flag, way up in the air

We're a bunch of gladiators:

If we don't win, we die!...

It's survival we're speaking of, not just fusses

We're going to fight until our death

Us, Northern Froggies

With Stentor's8 weapon, confronting comfort

Language and freedom are one and the same chance

With a partial freedom comes a complete and total absence

Deafening silence

This hymn is not a scope of practice,

It's a proclamation of sovereignty

YES

Are you all ears?

When we talk about our cause

We're all ears

Either we vanish,

Either we blossom

We, the people

It's you, me, us, [wi]!

Whether clear or ambiguous,

The question remains acute

To be or not to be?

To drink or not to drink the hemlock?

Win or lose, we keep on

Shouting on the street

That we are the people, and the king is naked

The country we'll build won't be made of ticky-tacky

I'm passing a paper over to you...tiki-taka9 style

We've got all we need to act posh

Without bearing the costs of the matter

The iron is hot, the winter is pretty,

But not as much as the Quebecois Spring10

Spared by History,

We've reached the crossroads

We must choose

The lesser of two evils:

Either the people live on the street,

Either the people are out on the street, day and night, for democracy

Iniminimanimo

Three letters, one syllable, one word

That we say with a smile

That we say so we don't die

That 'yes' is the one

Registering a new country on Wikipedia

YES

Are you all ears?

When we talk about our cause

We're all ears

Either we vanish,

Either we blossom

We, the people

It's you, me, us, [wi]!

1. Korrigan, a creature from Breton folklore.
2. Where the Egyptian revolution began.
3. Wadji Mouawad, Lebanese-Canadian writer.
4. Bertrand Cantat, French singer of the band Noir Désir and accused in the Marie Trintignant case.
5. Guy Turcotte, found not criminally responsible of his children's death.
6. Zdeno Chara, ice hockey player.
7. Clotaire Rapaille, French marketing specialist.
8. Stentor, herald of Greek forces during the Trojan war.
9. Tiki-taka, style of play in football.
10. Allusion to the Arab Spring; the Quebecois Spring had to do with tuition and the resignation of Quebec's Prime Minister.

Song details

Translation details

crimson_antics

submitted on 29 يوليو 2013 - 00:18

Give a shoutout to crimson_antics

تعليقات الكاتب:

This whole song is a play on words/parts of words pronounced like [wi], which I couldn't really translate into English.

And as with most Loco Locass songs, this one deals with political matters such as the Quebec Sovereignty Movement and the protection of the French language in Canada/Quebec.

التعليقات 1

crimson_antics A

30 يوليو 2013, 00:46

Merci :)

C'est plate...c'est un peu comme "c'est nul", j'imagine ? Un peu moins que 'it sucks', c'est pour ça que j'ai mis 'blows'. 'It sucks', ce serait plutôt "c'est poche".

Pour ce qui est de 'se faire fourrer', je trouve que 'buggered/rogered' on l'air un peu moins fleuri, justement. (ou bien je ne saisis pas le sens de 'fleuri', c'est aussi possible)

Je ne connais pas l'expression 'avoir déjà mangé son pain blanc', mais c'est possible qu'ils l'aient adaptée pour que ça rime avec 'hooligan/Korrigan/organes', c'est pour ça que je l'ai laissé.

Je ne savais même pas qu'on comparait les francophones à des grenouilles...

"pour faire les frais sans faire les frais": ah bon ? qu'est-ce qui est typiquement canadien dans cette ligne? :)

Et pour 'Iniminimanimo', c'est probablement simplement une allusion au fait qu'il faut faire un choix, oui. C'est comme ça que je le vois, en tout cas.