Translation of the song lyrics Seuls et vaincus - Gaël Faye, Melissa Laveaux

Seuls et vaincus (original)

Vous finirez seuls et vaincus, sourds aux palpitations du monde
A ses hoquets, ses hauts ses bas, ses haussements d'épaules veules
Au recensement des ossements qui tapissent le fond des eaux
Vous finirez seuls et vaincus, aveugles aux débris tenaces
De ces vies qui têtues s’enlacent, de ces amours qui ne se lassnt
Même lacérées de s hisser à la cime des songeries
Vous finirez seuls et vaincus, grands éructants rudimentaires
Insouciants face à nos errances sur la rude écale de la Terre
Indifférents aux pulsations qui lâchent laisse à l’espérance
Vous finirez seuls et vaincus car longue longue est la mémoire
Des pieds des peaux des au-revoir, et de ces temps itinérants
Où devisant et divisant, vous créez un monde en noir et blanc
Vous finirez seuls et vaincus, vos cris vos cors et vos crédos
Autorité en toc et broc ne sauront vous sauver de rien
L'éclat de nos vies entêtées éblouira vos en-dedans
Et vos enfants joyeux et vifs feront rondes et farandoles
Avec nos enfants et leurs chants, et s’aimant sans y prendre garde
Vous puniront en vous offrant des petits-enfants chatoyants
Vous finirez seuls et vaincus car invincible est notre ardeur
Et si ardent notre présent, incandescent notre avenir
Grâce à la tendresse qui survit à ce passé simple et composé
While you’re holding on to your bones
Holding on to what you know
We won’t make the same mistakes
Stakes are high we claim our fates
While you’re holding on to your bones (seuls)
Holding on to what you know
We won’t make the same mistakes (seuls)
Stakes are high we claim our fates (vaincus)
While you’re holding on to your bones (seuls)
Holding on to what you know (vaincus)
We won’t make the same mistakes (seuls)
Stakes are high we claim our fates
Vous finirez seuls et vaincus

(translation)

You'll end up alone and defeated, deaf to the palpitations of the world
To his gasps, his highs his lows, his spineless shrugs
To the census of the bones that line the bottom of the waters
You'll end up alone and defeated, blind to the stubborn debris
Of these stubborn lives that entwine, of these loves that never tire
Even lacerated from climbing to the peak of daydreams
You'll end up alone and defeated, big rudimentary belchers
Carefree of our wanderings on the rough shell of the Earth
Indifferent to the pulsations that let go leave to hope
You will end up alone and defeated for long long is the memory
From the feet of the skins of the goodbyes, and of these itinerant times
Where chatting and dividing, you create a world in black and white
You'll end up alone and defeated, your cries your horns and your creeds
Fake authority won't save you from anything
The shine of our stubborn lives will dazzle your insides
And your happy and lively children will make rounds and farandoles
With our children and their songs, and loving each other without realizing it
Will punish you with shimmering grandchildren
You will end up alone and defeated because invincible is our ardor
And so fiery our present, incandescent our future
Through the tenderness that survives this simple and compound past
While you're holding on to your bones
Holding on to what you know
We won't make the same mistakes
Stakes are high we claim our fates
While you're holding on to your bones (alone)
Holding on to what you know
We won't make the same mistakes (alone)
Stakes are high we claim our fates (defeated)
While you're holding on to your bones (alone)
Holding on to what you know (defeated)
We won't make the same mistakes (alone)
Stakes are high we claim our fates
You will end up alone and defeated