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I think the choice of the Hymn isn’t a coincidence…

Une princesse est morte (A princess died)

Dèrrière un homme, une femme
Behind a man, a woman
Donne ses joies, ses larmes
Gives her joy, her tears
Partage le courage
Shares courage
Traverse l’orage et la rage
Goes through storms and rage
Femme de militant, sans Palace ni Hilton
Wife of militants, without palace nor Hilton
Entend les cris de sa nation, pas ceux des Rollings Stones
Hears the screams of her nation, not these of the Rolling Stones
Dame de terrain, traverse le feu sans se brûler
Lady on field, goes through fire without burning
Elle connait les chants de guerre pour cultiver la paix
She knows war songs to cultivate peace
Reine des belles imaculées
Queen of immaculated beauties
Pour partager ta haine figée
To share your motionless hate
Quand ton mari s’est fait tirer
When your husband was shot
Aujourd’hui c’est toi qui part
Today you’re the one leaving
Briller au loin comme les lumières d’un phare
Shine far away like the lights of a lighthouse
Briller plus haut, plus fort qu’une star
Shine higher, stronger than a star
C’est toi qui part
You’re the one who leaves
Les Blacks américains orphelins de l’Histoire
Black Americans orphans of History
On t’a à jamais perdu, une perle rare
We lost you forever, precious gem
Passe le bonjour à Malcolm de ma part
Say hi to malcolm for me
A Newton, Martin Luther
To Newton, To Martin Luther
Dis-leur que Mandela n’est plus au mitard
Tell them Mandela isn’t anymore in jail
Et que l’on garde l’espoir
And that we keep hope
Betty Shabazz ton nom est gravé dans l’histoire.
Betty Shabazz, your name is engraved in History

{Refrain:}
Une princesse est morte
A princess died
Sans flashes ni escorte
Without flash nor escort
Sans bougie dans le vent
Without a candle in the wind
Sans rose devant sa porte
Without roses on her front door
Une princesse est morte
A princess died
Une femme de cœur, une femme forte
A woman of heart, a strong woman
Morte, sans flashes ni escorte.
Dead, without flash nor escort

A travers les flammes, le sang et les bombes
Through flames, blood and bombs
Alger succombe et tes fils tombent dans les tombes
Alger yields and your sons fall in graves
La mort effleure, ton cœur flambe quand tes filles tremblent
Death brushes, your heart flares up when your daughters shake
Tu lèves les mains au ciel, pieds nus dans les cendres
You raise your hands to the sky, barefeet in the ashes
Dernier rayon de soleil sur ta djellaba
Last ray of sunshine on your djellaba
Premiers coups de feu, la terreur fait ses premiers pas
First shots, terror first steps
Ta tête est sous contrat, ta vie est un combat
Your head is a contract, your life is a struggle
Ils ont pointé le doigt sur toi les démons de Balla
They put on you the finger Balla’s demons
Quand le jour se lève, tu comptes les morts autour de toi
When day breaks, you counts the deads around you
Chasses les vautours sur ton toit
Shoo the vultures off your roof
Tu pries et gardes la foi
Your pary and keep faith
Vies de tes propres lois
Live your own laws
Avec les instits, les avocats
With teachers, and lawyers
Manifeste pour la paix et pour tes droits
Fight for peace and for your rights
Pas de château ni de marbre
No castle, no marble
Jeune femme des sables
Young woman of the sands
Tu graves tes rêves et élèves tes gosses avec des fables
You carve your dreams, and raises your children with tales
Et tu t’éteinds comme une bougie
And you light off like a candle
Tuée par le massacre en Algérie.
Killed by the massacre in Algeria

{Refrain}

Toutes les mères sont des princesses qui sans cesse
All mothers are princesses who never cease
Donnent de l’amour aux vies qui naissent et disparaissent
to give love to born lives and disappear
Aux yeux d’un enfant, le deuxième nom de maman c’est Dieu
For a child, the middle name of Mom is God
Qui peut plus qu’une mère forger l’esprit d’un homme sérieux ?
Who more than a mother can’t build a serious mind?
Au sein d’une famille, royale ou pas, son amour vrille
Among a family, royal or not, her as a spiral
Pas besoin de diamants ou de caisse à elle-seule, elle brille
No need of diamonds or car, alone she shines
Elle apporte la joie, amène le souffle infini
She brings joy, brings the infinite breath
Règne telle une reine sur le sentier de la vie
Reign like a queen on the path of life
Des princesses meurent tous les jours
Princesses die everyday
Les cœurs se croisent pour toujours
Hearts cross forever
Qui sont ces femmes qui dans ce monde ont bougé les tours ?
Who are the women in this worl who moved towers?
Qui sont celles qui pour une cause ont brisé les montagnes ?
Who are these who for a cause broke mountains?
Qui sont celles qui ont connu les flammes ?
Who are these who knew the flames?
Fortes, au sein des souffrances et des douleurs
Strong, through sorrow and pain
A travers les nations, les époques et les couleurs
Across nations, eras and colors
Combattantes, militantes ou bien mères tout simplement
Fighters, militants or simply mothers
Des larmes coulent quand vos âmes s’en vont dans le vent.
Tears stream when your souls are blown with the wind

{Refrain}

KDD

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WC9hFbXDIG8

Ain’t no sunshine

Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone.
It’s not warm when she’s away.
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And she’s always gone too long anytime she goes away.

Wonder this time where she’s gone,
Wonder if she’s gone to stay
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And this house just ain’t no home anytime she goes away.

And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

Hey, I ought to leave the young thing alone,
But ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, only darkness everyday.
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone,
And this house just ain’t no home anytime she goes away.

Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.

Bill Withers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo

Strange Fruit

Seven trees
Bearin strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
And blood at the roots
Black bodies
Swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin
From the poplar trees
Pastoral scene
Of the gallant south
Them big bulging eyes
And the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia
Clean and fresh
Then the sudden smell
Of burnin flesh
Here is a fruit
For the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather
For the wind to suck
For the sun to rot
For the leaves to drop
Here is
Strange and bitter crop

As singed by billie holiday

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter cry.

Nina Simone

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ktsU01lfzLU

Like spinning plates

While you make pretty speeches
I’m being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions
A delicate balance

And this just feels like spinning plates
I’m living in cloud cuckoo land
And this just feels like spinning plates
Our bodies floating down the muddy river

Radiohead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBDsNiCCNM&feature=related

Knives out

I want you to know
He’s not coming back
Look into my eyes
I’m not coming back

So knives out
Catch the mouse
Don’t look down
Shove it in your mouth

If you’d been a dog
They would’ve drowned you at birth

Look into my eyes
It’s the only way you’ll know I’m telling the truth

So knives out
Cook him up
Squash his head
Put him in the pot

I want you to know
He’s not coming back
He’s bloated and frozen
Still there’s no point in letting it go to waste

So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot

Radiohead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vgMYcMROcc

I say it’s the more bizarre, because the sounds, some sounds made me nearly sick, like in Revolving doors, or Hunting bears. I have a sort of love/hate relationship with Amnesiac. So to speak.

I love this album.

There there

in pitch dark i go walking in your landscape.
broken branches trip me as i speak.
just ‘cause you feel it doesnt mean its there.
just ‘cause you feel it doesnt mean its there.

There’s always a siren
Singing you to shipwreck
(Don’t reach out, don’t reach out
Don’t reach out, don’t reach out)
Steer away from these rocks
We’d be a walking disaster
(Don’t reach out, don’t reach out
Don’t reach out, don’t reach out)
just ‘cause you feel it doesn’t mean its there.
(theres someone on your shoulder)
(theres someone on your shoulder)
just ‘cause you feel it doesn’t mean its there.
(theres someone on your shoulder)
(theres someone on your shoulder)
There there!

why so green and lonely?
and lonely
and lonely

heaven sent you to me
to me
to me

we are accidents
waiting waiting to happen.

we are accidents
waiting waiting to happen

Radiohead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_eBqlFpnNY

2 + 2 = 5

Are you such a dreamer?
To put the world to rights?
I’ll stay home forever
Where two & two always
makes up five

I’ll lay down the tracks
Sandbag & hide
January has April’s showers
And two & two always
makes up five

It’s the devil’s way now
There is no way out
You can scream & you
can shout
It is too late now
Because

You have not been
paying attention

I try to sing along
I get it all wrong
Ezeepeezeeeezeepeeezee
NOT
I swat em like flies but
Like flies the burgers
Keep coming back
NOT
Maybe not
“All hail to the thief”
“But I am not!”
“Don’t question my authority
or put me in the dock”
Cozimnot!
Go & tell the king that
The sky is falling in
When it’s not
Maybe not.

Radiohead

THIS VIDEO MIGHT SHOCK SENSITIVE PEOPLE! OR PEOPLE UNDER AGE! NOW YOU KNOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lstDdzedgcE&feature=related

Sit down Stand up

Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up
Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up)
Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up)
Anytime (sit down)
Anytime (stand up)
Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up
We can wipe you out anytime (sit down, stand up)
We can wipe you out (sit down, stand up)
Anytime (sit down)
Anytime
Stand up (the rain drops the rain drops)
Sit down (the rain drops the rain drops)
Oh
The rain drops [x46]

Radiohead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSq3ntychaI&feature=related

This album is the more bizarre after Amnesiac. I heard it last night in the half-dark, and I thought about vampires. Isn’t the picture striking?

I had posted “let down” already, earlier, I believe lol

Paranoid Android

Please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What’s there…? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
What’s there…? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)

When I am king, you will be first against the wall
with your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What’s there…? (I may be paranoid, but no android)
What’s there…? (I may be paranoid, but no android)

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking, squealing gucci little piggy
You don’t remember
You don’t remember
Why don’t you remember my name?
Off with his head, man
Off with his head, man
Why don’t you remember my name? I guess he does…

Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height… height…
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height… height…
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me

That’s it sir
You’re leaving
The crackle of pigskin
The dust and the screaming
The yuppies networking
The panic, the vomit
The panic, the vomit
God loves his children, God loves his children, yeah!

Radiohead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdWPWnnNls

Live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsPyLHIEcs

Idioteque

Who’s in bunker?
Who’s in bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children
I’ll laugh until my head comes off
I’ll swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I

Who’s in bunker?
Who’s in bunker?
I have seen too much
You haven’t seen enough
You haven’t seen it
I’ll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children

Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time

Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both
Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Throw them in the fire
Throw them in the fire
Throw them in the

We’re not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
We’re not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobiles quirking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money

Here I’m allowed (background: and first and the children x6)
Everything all of the time
Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time

Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time

deaf and lost are the children (repeated)

Radiohead

Two live versions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ9KYriPbU4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBsLFNcnwGM

One of my fave of all Radiohead. With Paranoid Android.

In Limbo

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
I got a message I can’t read,
Another message I can’t read

Being the first in the Irish Sea,
I got a message I can’t read,
Another message I can’t read

I’m on your side
Nowhere to hide
Trapdoors that open
I spiral down

You’re living in a fantasy world,
You’re living in a fantasy world.

I’m lost at sea,
Don’t bother me
I’ve lost my way,
I’ve lost my way

You’re living in a fantasy world,
You’re living in a fantasy world,
You’re living in a fantasy world…
The most beautiful world

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
I got a message I can’t read
Another message I can’t read

Radiohead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdrh_co1wTA

PS: I love Thom

On s’attache (we (get) attached)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6dwJge2X7Q

J’ai pas le style
I don’t have the stylee
Pourtant pas hostile
Though not hostile
Mais c’est pas pour moi le costard uniforme
But it’s not for me the uniform suit
J’ai pas l’intégrale
I don’t have the integral
Du gendre idéal
Of the ideal son-in-law
J’aurai toujours l’impression qu’on m’espionne
I’d always have the impression i’m spied on
Pourtant pas contre l’amour
Yet not against love
Je s’rais même plutôt pour
I’d even be for

{Refrain}
Mais c’est pas pour autant qu’il faut
But it’s the reason why we must
Qu’on s’attache et qu’on s’empoisonne
get attached and poison ourselves
Avec une flèche qui nous illusionne
with an arrow that deludes us
Faut pas qu’on s’attache et qu’on s’emprisonne
we musn’t attach and cage ourselves
Mais rien n’empêche que l’on s’abandonne
But nothing keeps from letting it go
Non !
no!

D’un chef de file
Of a leader
J’en ai pas l’profil
I don’t have the profile
Mais sur l’oreiller j’aime pas qu’on me questionne
But on the pillow I don’t like to be questionned
Je suis pas James Bond
I’m not James Bond
Entouré de belles blondes – non non non
Surrounded by pretty blondes – no no no
J’envie même pas les hommes qui papillonnent
I don’t even envy men who flirt about
Pourtant pas contre l’amour
Though not against love
J’attends plutôt mon tour
I more wait for my turn

{Au refrain}

On laisse rien
we leave nothing
Le quotidien ça me tue, ça me tient, ça me fait mal – ça me fait mal
daily life kills me, hold me, hurts me, hurts me
Rien de plus normal
Nothing more normal
Mais tu t’enfiles
but you fill in
Dans le fil
in the thread
Il faut pas que tu dépasses
You musn’t show
A chaque fois que tu resquilles
each time you you sneak in
Mais t’es qui ?
But who are you?
T’es pas normal
you’re not normal

(refrain)

{Choeur}
C’est beau l’amour
love is beautiful
J’attend mon tour
I’m waiting for my turn

Non je ne sais pas faire comme
non I don’t know how to do as if
après tout je ne suis qu’un homme
after all i’m only a man
Non je ne veux vivre comme
no i don’t want to live like
dans la case de l’oncle Tom
in the uncle Tom’s cabin
en Papa dalton
In Daddy dalton
me r’trouver dans un album
find myself in an album
après tout je n’suis qu’un homme
after all I’m only a man

ça fait mal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmrwzuPKNMQ

Qu’elle était belle à t’écouter,
How she was beautiful listening to you
Sur ta voix son corps dansait
On your voice her body danced
Dans ces dentelles virevoltait
In these laces, twirled
L’effet d’un corps de ballet.
The effect of a ballet staff
Papa tu as pris la route sans dire adieu
Daddy you took the road without saying good bye
Papa tu as laissé son corps (or coeur/ heart), je t’en veux.
Daddy you left her body I hold it against you

{Refrain:}
Ça fait mal de vivre sans toi
It hurts to live without you
Elle a mal et tu ne t’imagines même pas
She hurts you don’t even imagine
Comme ça fait mal de rire sans toi
How it hurts to laugh without you
Elle a mal et tu ne reviendras pas.
she hurts and you won’t come back

Qu’elle était belle à tes côtés
How she was beautiful by your side
Dans son regard je voyais
In her look I could see
Tu faisais d’elle un conte de fées
You made of her a fairy tale
Sur toi elle se reposait.
She leaned on you
Papa tu as pris la route sans dire adieu
Daddy you took the orad without saying good bye
Papa tu as laissé son corps, je t’en veux.
Daddy you left her body I hold it against you

Ça fait mal de vivre sans toi
it hurts to live without you
Elle a mal et tu ne t’imagines même pas
she hurts and you don’t even imagine
Comme ça fait mal de rire sans toi.
how it hurts to laugh without you
Son sourire appelle au secours
her smile calls for help
Il est sans amour.
it’s empty of love

{au Refrain}

I think that song should be more understood as a child wrote it, say this. Well, I saw it this way.