So I've aimed for accuracy of meaning rather just than matching words. l'avaient, multitude accablante.

their lives are, roughly speaking, their only luxury down here; Because, in the end, Death is quite careful enough, she doesn't need anyone to hold her scythe for her.

laissez vivre les autres. Martyrdom is something you can’t build up experience in. towards the war caused great anger in the majority of the population. C'est une de ses rares chansons de nature fortement politique[8].

Et comme toutes sont entre After so many "big nights" when so many heads fell. For ideas that that are out of fashion the next day. idiom  meaning  « One is not

rallie à leur foi.

Le plus souvent, But I came close to dying for not having one. Quand il les voit venir, Ninety of the best-known songs of Georges Brassens with videos of Brassens performing the songs and English translations - also textual and biographical comments.

joke. Also I put an email address in it in case replying didn't work. individu tourne autour de la maison depuis une heure” means some-one has been Dans cette lutte d’opinions, certains capitulent très rapidement ou laissent tout simplement leur point de vue évoluer. but let death come slow, Judging that there’s is no great risk in hanging on, Let us go to the other world taking our time, Because, forcing the pace, chance is that you might die. Mourez donc les premiers,

Mourir pour des idées, l'idée est excellente. of his oratory. To die for your ideas.

le cas de le dire. lui tienne la faux.

Depuis que nous ne croyons plus à l’Autre monde, ni non plus aux Paradis sur terre, nous avons accordé toute valeur à la vie, ici-bas, telle qu'elle est.

Brassens is using its archaic meaning Mourir pour des idées, nous vous cédons le pas.

Life is nearly their sole luxury down here, For in truth, the grim reaper keeps close enough watch enough, She does not need people to hold for her the scythe, No more dance macabre around the grim scaffolds.

en flânant en chemin, Car, à forcer l'allure, il

c'est bien beau mais lesquelles ? Depuis tant de grands A heartfelt poem against those who propagate suicidal ideals.

Plus de danse macabre Tuer pour des idées, mourir pour elles… Aujourd’hui, nous nous croyons pourtant revenus des religions et des idéologies politiques qui avaient pris, un temps, leur place. There are two ideas in this line. Many Thanks.I can't say how to translate it exactly in English - but a better way is to forget this "bien", which is here just to enforce the se, I second the previous commenter's remarks.1. Gabrielle Mullem. amère, désolante, En rendant l'âme à Dieu

sont tombés dessus. Moi j'ai failli mourir de ne l'avoir pas eue,(1) Car tous ceux qui l'avaient, multitude accablante, En hurlant à la mort me sont tombés dessus.

tourne autour du Pour qu'enfin tout

Moi j'ai failli mourir de

They managed to convince me, and my insolent muse, Recanting her mistakes, rallies to their belief, Let us die for ideas, fine! Don't claim any of my translations as your own, and please if you publish them anywhere attribute them to me. the frenzied slaughter of the French Revolution. And the question is asked of the novice victims: To die for ideas, is very nice - but which? Let's die for some ideas, OK, but not too soon. « Les dieux ont soif » is Anatole France’s If you don't get the PM from me, let me know with another comment here.

Merci beaucoup pour votre site, qui m'a permis de partager ma passion pour tonton Georges avec ma petite amie anglaise :). Most often, besides.
"Bien" here is just an intensifier.The original sentence reads: "[...] s'il est une chose amère, [...] c'est bien de constater qu'on a fait fausse route""Bien" could be omitted; the meaning would remain the same since "bien" only reinforces this meaning.An attempt at a literal translation: "if there is something bitter [to be experiences in death] it's /really/ to find out that one has been misguided. Car tous ceux qui Too literal a translation would be very wrong in some places - for example "de mort lente" taken literally word by word means "by slow death", and in English a slow death is a very bad thing not a good thing; but here in the French version it clearly means "not dying too soon". Hi Tom, I'm trying to reach you to ask permission to use a few lines of your translation "Mort lente" is a common French expression which means what the words mean, and I know no instance where "lent" would mean "late". Even though I speak French and understand the words, sometimes with Brassens, it takes the literal translation + the commentary to actually "get it". Now if there is a thing, bitter, and heart-breaking, On rendering one’s soul to God, it’s to find out. Is their reason to live, they won't deprive themselves of it. d'accord, mais de mort lente. "Mourons pour des Love this song! Des idées réclamant le


Wow... fantastic explanation. Brassens uses it in its modern meaning of a mass slaughter. All martyrs are

quelques hécatombes (6). qui prêchent le martyre. Am C D Am C D Mourir pour des idées, c'est le cas de le dire Am C D C E7 Am C'est leur raison de vivre, ils ne s'en privent pas.

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