Isabelle Boulay — Nos rivières song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Nos rivières" by Isabelle Boulay.

Lyrics

Nos rivières
Passent le temps
Du pont d’la fièvre
Aux quatre vents
Oùtout cet air
Se fait plus lent
Nos rivières
Vont forcément
Par ces pierres
Vêtues de blanc
Elles nous serrent
Entre leurs dents
Nos rivières
Font nos enfants
Et c’est la terre
Qui nous les prend
Vivez, jeunes gens
De cet air, de cet air
Et de tout ce temps
Vivez, vivez, vivez souvent
D’un jour oùvivre,
C’est maintenant
D’un jour oùvivre, c’est maintenant
D’un jour oùvivre, c’est maintenant
Nos rivières
Croisent le chant
De pluies légères
Et d’océans
Sont-elles fières
Ou simplement
Nos rivières
D’eau et de sang…
Nos rivières
D’eau et de sang
Vivez, jeunes gens
De cette eau, de cette eau
Et de tout ce sang
Vivez, vivez, vivez souvent
D’un jour oùvivre, c’est maintenant
D’un jour oùvivre, c’est maintenant
Vivez, vivez, vivez souvent…
Nos rivières
Font nos enfants
Et c’est la terre
Qui nous les prend
D’un jour oùvivre, c’est maintenant
D’un jour oùvivre, c’est maintenant
D’un jour oùvivre, c’est maintenant

Lyrics translation

Our rivers
Pass the time
Bridge of fever
To the Four Winds
Where all this air
Gets slower
Our rivers
Necessarily go
By these stones
Dressed in white
They squeeze us
Between their teeth
Our rivers
Make our children
And this is the Earth
Who takes them from us
Live, young people
From this air, from this air
And all this time
Live, Live, Live often
From a day when I live,
It's now
From one day to live, it's now
From one day to live, it's now
Our rivers
Cross singing
From light rains
And oceans
Are they proud
Or simply
Our rivers
Water and blood…
Our rivers
Water and blood
Live, young people
Of this water, of this water
And all that blood
Live, Live, Live often
From one day to live, it's now
From one day to live, it's now
Live, Live, Live often…
Our rivers
Make our children
And this is the Earth
Who takes them from us
From one day to live, it's now
From one day to live, it's now
From one day to live, it's now