Coriace Lyrics English Translation by Bernard Lavilliers
You think the violence of words keeps time from running away
A charred morning that you’d like to cool down
You see oppression coming without being able to define it
You think democracy will be enough for you to sleep
The old cracked world awaits the war of the stars
Loves to manipulate you, makes you cynical and brutal
Fear seeps into you and follows you in your dreams
Makes you believe anything, and soon, the day breaks
You gotta be tough to hold on
You gotta be solid to act
The music holds us, inspires us
Without letting the conspiracies, the arguments, the words, your skin
You gotta be tough to hold on
Tough (tough)
A building disintegrated, a radio crackling
The return of armored trains and George Orwell wearing himself out
Telling the reality on a flickering screen
“Big Brother is watching you” is a slogan that sparkles
Death shows off, teasing, on Europe’s dancefloor
Always stays mysterious when the black car takes you away
Toward starving empires and that iron grip
That’ll come strangle us in our nuclear shelters
You gotta be tough to hold on
You gotta be solid to act
The music holds us, inspires us
Without letting the conspiracies, the arguments, the words, your skin
You gotta be tough to hold on
Tough (tough)
I feel like the warmth of words doesn’t have time to soften
The heaviness of this tempo that shrinks the future
All those burned books in a distant memory
I hope democracy will be enough for you to sleep
Tough (tough)