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For​ê​t Endormie - Une étincelle que je veux avaler

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Une étincelle que je veux avaler

Les premiers pas sur la neige gelée
où les loups n’habitent plus
nous sommes partout
dans nos abris qui fument,


que la terre gelée
nous a invité
à construire.

Donc on se cache
et on avale le feu de nos ancêtres.
On travaille pour être isolés.
Chacun leurs dettes et convictions.

Comme je me promène
dans la nature qui reste
au sein de ma ville natale,

un ancien pont en fer.

Du verre cassé,
de la glace qui se brise sous mes bottes noires,
je vais vers le pont métallique en ruines
qui mène nulle part
pour enterrer la doute en moi-même.

En voyant la mer
couverte de navires il y a une étincelle
que je veux avaler.
Je trouve que les pas d’un autre
a déjà concassé cette terre.

On avale le feu de nos ancêtres.
On travaille pour être isolés.
Chacun leurs dettes,
enfants nés dans un hôpital.
On est des citoyens
des pays inventés.

Des pays inventés
On a perdu
la vie sans frontières.
Toujours on coule
les uns sur les autres.


ENGLISH TRANSLATION
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The first footsteps on the frozen snow
where wolves no longer live
we’re everywhere
in our smoking shelters,

that the frozen ground
invited us
to build.

So we hide
and we swallow the fire of our ancestors.
We work to be isolated.
Each one their debts and convictions.

As I walk
in the nature that remains
in my hometown,

an iron bridge in disrepair.

Broken glass,
ice that breaks under my black boots,
I go toward the metal bridge in ruins
that leads nowhere
to bury my self-doubt.

Seeing the sea
covered in ships there is a spark
that I want to swallow.
I find the footsteps of another
has already crushed this soil.

We swallow the fire of our ancestors
We work to be isolated
Each one their debts,
children born in a hospital
We’re citizens
of invented countries.

Invented countries.
We’ve lost
life without borders.
Always we’re pouring
on top of eachother.

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from For​ê​t Endormie / Quercus Alba Split, released August 16, 2019

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Forêt Endormie Portland, Maine

Forêt Endormie is a chamber ensemble formed in 2016 by Falls of Rauros guitarist and composer Jordan Guerette, hailing from the “Forest City” of Portland, Maine (USA).

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