L'envie d'aimer - Les Dix Commandements

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I LEAVE HIM TO ABANDONMENT

YOKEBED, BITHIA:

Y: I leave him to abandonment
This love that I have carried/born
Wanted the deepest
Does anyone truly have the choice
When our hands are tied

B: You leave him to abandoment
For love and for right
Of thousands of hopes
In the ranges of absense
Like a marvelous gift

Y: See a hand which tightens, someone to follow
B: And someplace, a river when they derive
Y: Oh, when a right to live
B: Is worth a lot of reasons, a lot of defiances
Even if it is neccessary to live with this weight
Y: Even if it is necessary to live so that you will live
B: You will live

Y: I leave him to abandoment
With you all the hopes
That would remain for me to believe in
And to see you go away
Is the worst of prisons

B: You leave in abandoment
The price of thousands sufferings
Your unprotected dream
For the fightening silence
Moments which leave

HE WILL BE CALLED MOSES

BITHIA:
Everywhere they know
Everywhere the thing is acquired
Through the ages
And everywhere they tell themselves it

Since [he] came as a present
Since [he was] saved, saved from the waters

My child, my promised earth
My son will be called Moses
He's the life that heaven trusted to me
My child my promised earth
The life that heaven gave back to me
My son will be called Moses

From heaven to the earth
A dream of love that they allow
A song, a prayer
A light
A motto

Since [he] came as a present
Since [he was] saved, saved from the waters
My child, my promised earth
My son will be called Moses
He's the life that heaven trusted to me
My child my promised earth
The life that heaven gave back to me
My son will be called Moses

THE DILEMMA

NEFERTARI, RAMSES, MOSES:

N: Who will be able
To open my eyes
Who will know
How to tell me which of the two
I desire
Who attracts me
Who I admire
Who will make me choose
Between a hope and an empire
Between a look without weakness and a smile

Me, I would like to be able to love
To love [with] closed eyes
To be able to share
And love and friendship
To love in pleasure
Without having to choose
M: Love me without telling me it
N: Without having to choose
R: Let me win you

N: But who will be able
To tell me how to love them
Without betraying them a little

Both
Without making suffer
The one who
Will never be happy

But to remain still the one whom he desires
That he is the look without weakness or the smile
Me, I would like to be able to love
To love [with] closed eyes

To be able to share
And love and friendship
To love in pleasure
Without having to choose

M: Love me without betraying me
N: Without having to choose
R: I will be your future
N: Me, I would like to be able to love
To love [with] closed eyes
To be able to share
And love and friendship
To love in pleasure
Without having to choose
M: Love me without telling me it
N: Without having to choose
R: Let me win you

TO EACH HIS DREAM

RAMSES, MOSES:

M: Son of the waters of the Nile
I will be a model and a guide

R: And me, Pharaoh
You will be with me, my second

M: I will battle endlessly
The roads of the empire

R: For your brother, me, Ramses
Son of Egypt

M: Tied by our fates
By blood, by flesh, in love

R: And to still love each other
In blood, in blood, without love

M: We are even stronger
To see ourselves growing

R: We make the same efforts
To be built

M: And as the day begins
R: And as the day ends
M: To each, to each his dream
R: With our similarities
M: With our differences
R: To each, to each his path

M: His powers like his doubts
R: And his dream
M: And his dream

M: Me, I can offer
Light, hope, a path

R: Me, I can give
My empire, my conquests, a destiny

M: We travelled the course
Hand in hand

R: Here's the time of choice
To each his own

M: And as the day begins
R: And as the day ends
M: To each, to each his dream
R: With our similarities
M: With our differences
R: To each, to each his path
M: His powers like his doubts
R: And his dream
M: And his dream

THE WORST PAIN

JOSHUA:
And since they have for prison
A earth of which the only horizon
Is a desert
A desert
And since it is neccessary to suffer standing
To survive here on your knees
In the dust

Since love
Is inaccessible, one day
And the dream too heavy
To be free one day
May God pardon me
If only to be a man
It's my worst pain

And since our cries are lost
And our heaven remains dark
And without a look
Wherever they look
Even if to believe is only an appeal
In front of not enough hope that surrounds us
That leads us astray

Since love
Is inaccessible, one day
And the dream too heavy
To be free one day
May God pardon me
If only to be a man
It's my worst pain

But why put themselves on their knees
For who wants to live standing

Since love
Is inaccessible, one day
And the dream too heavy
To be free one day
May God pardon me
If only to be a man
It's my worst pain

May God pardon me
If only to be a man

It's my worst pain...
It's my worst pain...

I HAD NEVER PRAYED

We can believe
All that is written
To think we foresee
What tomorrow will be
But who can truly know
Which will be the way

We can live
Without doubt of the present
But a moment
A second, a gesture
Changes the course of time just like that
For a new destiny

You had never
No, you had never prayed
Until then

No, I had never
No, I had never douted
Before then

We can see
In the middle of wounds
All the greatness
Fragile armour
And why they are there
As what they will become

To discover
That we can, or that we must
Finally leave
To discover in ourselves
A flash of eternity
That makes us kneel

You had never
No, you had never prayed
Until then

No, I had never
No, I had never doubted
Before then

Now I know
That I had never loved
Before then

WITHOUT HIM

Without you, I know what will happen
My incapability to rise
Against the force that has already
Taken all, decided all

There is this cry which I hold back
This untenable uprising
As one indecipherable error
Which glides endlessly over my destiny

With the assurance that gives the certainties
Our lives will be solitudes

Without him we will stay together
United
Missing who he is
Without him
We will love together
Even if
Love divides us
Even if
Love divides us

Without you, I'm going to have to cheat
And pretend to change sides again
To believe that I could like it
As though my life agreed

When the sharing is finished
It leaves a bitter taste
Something to start afresh
Like a happiness that one would like to conceal

With the assurance that gives the certainties
Our lives will be solitudes

Without him we will stay together
United
Missing who he is
Without him
We will love together
Even if
Love divides us
Even if
Love divides us

THE PAIN

May God pardon us
If only to be men
It's the pain
It's his worst pain

May God pardon him
If only to be a man
It's his worst pain

May God pardon me
If only to a men
It's my worst pain

OH MOSES

YOKEBED, AARON, MIRYAM, BITHIA
Y: Oh Moses, where we come from
We carry a love in ourselves
Oh Moses, whatever it is
And no matter where it takes you
It's the place
Where you will put down your chains
Where you will be
Close to yourself

A: Oh Moses, where you go
There is someone who waits
Patiently
This love that is in you
And that teaches you
To ask yourself why
You are only yourself
But more the same really

M: Even
If someone lied to you
Somone felt betrayed, reputation soiled
For what can be the use of regrets
There
Where you go to find yourself
The answer that you would seek
For what can be the use of regrets

M: I love you
La la la
B: Oh Moses, where we are
This changes nothing for anyone
Oh Moses what we give
Is much more important than who we are
We pardon
Those who don't pardon
Who abandon
And know nothing of you

M: Even
If someone lied to you
Someone felt betrayed, reputation soiled
For what can be the use of regrets
There
Where you go to find yourself
The answer that you would seek
For what can be the use of regrets

HE IS THAT

He's just a simple man
Not a king, nor a prince, nor different
A man simply tired
Of having doubted, of having struggled

Just a simple man
That I saw defend unarmed
The right, the good, men who cry
By listening only to his heart
The right, the good, men who cried
By listening only to his heart

HE IS THE ONE I WANTED

Zipporah:
He is the one I wanted
As come from a long journey
He is the victor of no one
Anyway, he has this courage

To aspire to nothing
To follow me where I go
With my fears and my weaknesses
When I no longer know my path

He is the one I wanted
And whose tracks I will follow
He knows that those arms satisfy me
To know where my place is

And to find the balance
To be serene when he is there
For what is the use of being free
If is it to live only for oneself
For what is the use of being freev If is it to live only for oneself

He is the power, he is the calm
He is the one I have waited for
He is the hand, he is the shoulder
He is the one I wanted
I wanted

He is the one I wanted
As in the very end of a long trip
After having crossed everything
An island where someone is shipwrecked

Finally to allow oneself to love
And to travel a short road together
Without him asking in exchange
That I be the one he wanted

To be the power, to be the calm
Or to be the one he waited for
He is the hand, he is the shoulder
He is the one I wanted
I wanted
I wanted

He is the power, he is the calm
He is the one I waited for
He is the love, he is the path
He is the one I will follow
I will follow

THE WEDDINGS

There is so much love, there is so much love...on earth
There is so much love, there is so much love...that we lose
There is so much love, there is so much love... to make
There is so much love, there is so much love...in the air

THE ONE WHO GOES

I believed the moon
Was the end of the universe
I touched the riverbanks
Without never truly touching the earth
Caressed the dunes
Unaware that they make the desert
I believed I knew it
I believed that I that had to hide myself

I will be
The one who goes
And will know
I will be
The who can
And will do

You say: the journey
Begins when you are ready to take it
That in counting the waves
I will learn finally where the sea comes from
You tell me that a life
Must, like a tree, bear its fruits
Because I am
The one that will never finish

I will be
The one who goes
And who knows
I will be
The one who wants
And who does

And when an echo
Spreads to answer a cry
When our steps intertwine
And tread together upon the earth that binds us
The open gaze
Ready to accept all challenges
So we find
The voice which reminds us of life

I would no longer hide myself
And I would never finish it

I will be
The one who goes
And who knows
I will be
The one who must
I leave

BUT YOU LEAVE

Zipporah, Bithia, Nefertari, Miryam:

Z: There are mountains that cry
Innocent waterfalls
And me who says nothing
In front of your eyes that lie

N: I have wanted violent rains
Of which you never see a drop
To be the weak or the absent
But you speak to me and I listen

M: Weather is so nice elsewhere
When love is under way
And it kills the hours
By thinning the leaves of doubt

B: Here it's an odd desert
I only hear my heart beating
All alone like a pitiful winter
And I understand that they don't want it

Z: But you leave
M: But you leave

Z & M: There are valleys where
Angels with blue halos sleep
But a love leaves
And I abandon God

N: I have desires of black magic
Of which you have not the slightest doubt
To be without weakness and without memory
I am there and I listen to you

Z&M: When the suns call you
You cannot know
That by burning your wings
You can shatter hope

B: Here the earth is without appeal
But it is free, one can love it
You can prepare to leave it
Like a love when it hides

M: But you leave
Z: But you leave

Z: All my stories before
When I was without a king
Spoke to me of a lover
But not of love without you

N: I don't want your fights
I would rather change your fate
But I am there, the heart that beats
Who no longer hears you, but who listens to you

Z&M: Where do the mirages go
When they disappear
Who will hold them in cages
For those who no longer see them

B: Me, who has always been here
I know that it's the night that comes
With its shadows and then its greys
And something in me dies

N: But you leave
M: But you leave

THAT'S MY DESIRE

To build monuments of iron and gold
That transform
That's my desire
To throw rocks and make meteors
That burn
That's my desire
To burn the wind and the suns of the north
To make the weak and the strong kneel
That's my right
That's my desire
My comfort
And my freedom
It's my right
And my desire

But why want so much power?
There are tears
That even an empire
Can't pay

Must we say it
With tears
Or with sighs?

LET MY PEOPLE GO

YOKEBED, MOSES:

Because he is not allowed
To live in slavery
We will spend our lives
To control our tempers

To feed resentment
That arm [Read:give weapons] our arms
And that overcome our fears
At the moment of the fight

Let my people go
Give them their freedom

Let my people go
M: Let them live free
Live free

Because it's not written
That we can't change anything
We will hold the wager
Of one day turning everything upside down

To make the firsts
One day is the last
And the power or liking
To see our masters crying

Let my people go
Give them their freedom
Let my people leave
M: Le them live free
Live free

Because it's forbidden
To despise a soul
We have not learned
To submit under your weapons

We have violence
That lies in our flesh
And I want it to race
Like dogs over our lands

Let my people go
Give them their freedom
Let my people leave
M: Let them live free
Live free

TO EACH HIS SWORD

To separate our fates
Without blood, without flesh, and without hate

To fight each other again
In blood, in flesh, in hate

We will go into the heart
Of our suffering

We scatter fear
With our violence

And as the day begins
And as the day ends
To each, to each his sword
With our similarities
With our differences
To each, to each his end
His victories, as his losses
And his sword
His sword
His sword

Me, I want to break
Your light, your beliefs, your path

Me, I want to snuff out
Your empire, your conquests, your destiny

It's the end of the road
And me against you

Here is the time of choice
To each himself

And as the day begins
And as the day ends
To each, to each his sword
With our similarities
With our differences
To each, to each his end
His victories, as his losses
And his sword
His sword
His sword

And as the day begins
And as the day ends
To each, to each his sword
With our similarities
With our differences
To each, to each his end
His victories, as his losses
And his sword

By dreaming
By hoping
And then we will no longer go far Why make all this road
By dreaming
To abandon everything
And then then we have no other choice
Why conduct battles

By dreaming
To abandon everything
And then then we have no other choice
Why conduct battles

DON'T LEAVE HIM TO ABADONDMENT

Don't leave him to abandoment
Neither the love that he gave you
Nor the weight of your name
Do you really have the choice
When he opened your arms

Don't leave without reason
All the pain of the past
All as the ones who will come
Tomorrow on our earth
To awaken hell

THE UNACCEPTABLE

We can tell ourselves
That the irremediable
With time
Can reunite the forgotten
With love
To hold you again

Just leave
A little hope
Barely whispered
In silence

But there is
The unacceptable
That comes to knock over
An error from above
That we haven't asked for
But there is the unacceptable
In full flight, struck down
And that comes to retake all
All that we have given you
And left you
Like an impression
An unfinished impression

We can tell ourselves
That the inconcievable
Can happen
One day without a sound
Overcome everything
Without you preventing

Even if to wait there
Because no matter what we do
We know the wall
At the end of the dead-end

LIBRE

Translators note: The words 'libre' (free) and 'vivre' (to live) are spelled out several times in the song. To simplify things, I have chosen to spell out the English words.

MIRYAM: Since here life is only fond of you
It always gives you what it must
To finally live free
F-R-E-E
It is necessary just to listen to what it says
Where you take it it follows you
To finally live
To finally live free
L-I-V-E
To finally live free
F-R-E-E
Freedom
Freedom
F-R-E-E

It also teaches and tames
And it depends only on you
To finally live free
F-R-E-E
If you know to answer what it says
And to retain what it teaches you
To finally live
To finally live free
L-I-V-E
To finally live free
F-R-E-E
Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
F-R-E-E
To finally live free
L-I-V-E
To finally live free
F-R-E-E

BEFORE THE SEA

AARON:
But tell me
What is the use
Of having surivived
After so much fighting
And having lost all
And having left all behind
Of having hope
That brightens our dreams
And having a chance
That the suffering is over

If the road is closed again
Before the sea
If the road is closed again
Before the sea

But tell me
What is the use
Of having wanted so much
To push back the boundaries
And having kept
Our cries in misery
Of having on our hands
Blood and remorse
Of having made it all this way
Paved with so many deaths

If the road is closed again
Before the sea
If the road is closed again
Before the sea
If the road is closed again
Before the sea
If the road closes itself again
Before the sea
Before the sea
Before the sea...

MY BROTHER

MOSES, RAMSES:
R: Of course one day leaves for another to come
Of course the stars dance when the sky exstinguises them
It's our love that will never have tomorrow
My brother

M: Much more than one world opens for another to overturn
Much more than a sea that begs when the source is dried up
It's all our love that moves away from the river banks and gets lost
My brother

R: Everyone forgets
Each with his pain
Time overtakes us
The memories
Of a brother

M: Each with his pain
Time teaches us
To love us
As brothers

R: Of course the earth is burned when the rain forgets it
Of course all is cried since they have never claimed to be him
Of course love, since it can no longer grow, buries
My brother

M: Much more than a last look to decide a life
Much more than this last hope that the current carries away
It's a love that will not find the river
My brother

R: Everyone forgets
Each with his pain
Time overtakes us
The memories
Of a brother

M: Each with his pain
Time teaches us
To love us
As brothers

R: Since they will still be
The half of a whole
M: Since they will never be
The half of us
My brother...
R: Of course nothing will ever be able to take that away from us
M: Even more than all that live can grant us
M&R: Love will be the half of us left behind
To make
My brother...

THERE IS SO MUCH LOVE

A REASON TO HOPE

Of all the men that go
From earth to earth
Of all those who will know
What they came to do
None will ever have
The gentleness of his hands
None will go closer
To the heart to lead so far

The desire so strong
Is still not enough
The power to love him too much
Will never be enough

Of all the men who have
A lonely fate
Of the those who must
Cross their desert
None will know to say
The thing that cries in his silences
None will be able to read
What is written in his absense
In the distance

The desire so strong
Is still not enough
The power to love him too much
Will never be enough

And it's all that he gives
That make you give all
That makes them abandon
A morning, for him, our reasons to doubt

And it's all that they give
Willingly
That they abandon
Will become, for him, a reason to hope
A reason to hope

The desire so strong
Is still not enough
The power to love him too much
Will never be enough

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

MOSES
May today
Be for now or for 1000 years
That it is said
With the most humble and most noble men
The time of one life
Is always beginning again

I am I and I am only one
I am the only one that you will have

But don't call me in vain
For my anger you will suffer

And each day of the seventh day
Remember me on this day for me

Give all your respect
To them who gave you life

Respect all life
Without taking it away from anyone

And don't decieve anyone
This other that you have chosen

May today
Be for now or for 1000 years
That it is said
With the most humble and most noble men
Time of one life
Is always beginning again
That your goodness is not the only goodness
That you will not take it from another

Choose only the truth
To witness your fellow man

Although he can one day possess
Don't envy his possessions, his possessions

May today
Be for now or for 1000 years
That it is said
With the most humble and most noble men
Time of one life
Is always beginning again

May today
Be the day it was written
That men
Have all of the future to rebuild life
Much more
That a life of a man
Always beginning again

I am I and I am only one
I am the only one you will have

May today
Be for now
Or for 1000 years
Always beginning again

THE DESIRE TO LOVE (Finale)

MOSES
It's so simple
Love
So possible
Love
To those who hear it
Look around
To those who want it
Truly

It's so easy
To believe in it
But so hard
Yet
It's worth the pain
To want it
To seek it
All the time

It will be us, from tomorrow
It will be us, the future
For love
We will know to give it to each other
Give us the desire to love

It's so short
A life
So fragile
Too
That to run
After time
No longer lets anything
Live

It will be us, from tomorrow
It will be us, the future
For love
We will know to give it to each other
Give us the desire to love

It will be us, from tonight
To us the desire
To make love
We will have shared
Give us the desire to love
Give us the desire to love

It's so strong
It's so hard

Love
Since we wait
For lives in life
Since the night
Of time

It will be us
It will be us
It will be us
For love
We will know how to give it to each other

It will be us, from tonight
To us the desire
To make love
We will have shared
Give us the desire to love...

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