L’ÉVEIL DU PRINTEMPS: SCENE 2 PART 2
CHANSON: « CE QU’ON SAIT »
GARÇONS (mélopée sous MELCHIOR): Lītora, multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō
Vī superum saevae memorem Iūnōnis ob īram;
Multa quoque et bellō passūs, dum conderet urbem.
Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs
Ītaliam, fātō profugus, Lāvīniaque vēnit…
MELCHIOR: Ce qu’on sait
En histoire ou en science
Sont des faits
Qu’on apprend en patience
Si tu doutes,
Ils puniront l’insolence
De tout ce que tu sais
Mais que tu réprimes en silence
Ce qu’on vit
Est écrit dans les livres
Tu l’apprends
Mais c’est de pire en pire
[On te] corrige,
Mais l’argent est la cible
En verité on [érige]
Tout ce qu’il y a dans la Bible
Mais je sais
[Ceux connes nous disent pas]
Que je garde dans secret
Au fond de moi
Et je sais
Ne pas leur faire confiance
Juste [les y aurai méfiance]
Et je pas
Dans un rêve idéal
Je m’égare
Pendant que l’on me parle
J’en appelle
[À percer là où] grand jour
La vérité, comme elle serait,
[Délivrait nous à tous]
Regardez, regardez
J’en appelle à ce que je saurai
Regardez, regardez
J’en appelle, j’en appelle à ce que je saurai
BOYS (chanted under MELCHIOR): Lītora, multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō
Vī superum saevae memorem Iūnōnis ob īram;
Multa quoque et bellō passūs, dum conderet urbem.
Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs
Ītaliam, fātō profugus, Lāvīniaque vēnit…
MELCHIOR: What we know
In history or in science
Are facts
We learn through patience
If you waver
They will punish the insolence
Of everything you know
But repress in silence
What we live
Is written in books
You learn it
But things only get worse
[They correct you]
But money is the objective
To tell the truth, they [elevate]
Everything in the bible
But I know
[Those morons don’t tell us]
What I protect, in secret,
Deep inside me
And I know
Not to trust them
Just [to suspect them]
And I walk
In an perfect dream
My mind wanders
While others talk to me
I call for them
[To break through to where,] one day
The truth, how it will be,
[Will deliver us all]
Watch, watch,
I’m calling on what I will know
Watch, watch
I’m calling on what I will know
on in french is loosely equivalent to the english one as in “one can’t be too prepared,” though the french use it much more frequently. it generally replaces nous (we) in casual conversation, and can also replace tu (you) or il/elle/ils/elles (he/she/they). so … on can cover almost any pronoun, but melchior’s accusatory tone here makes it clear he’s not using a we sentiment. this is a they situation.
This had some interesting sentence structure which made normally safe assumptions in parsing out unlikely homophones much harder. not sure if this is meant to convey his feeling of intellectual superiority or if some phrases are just positioned strangely because they have to fit the meter of the song. fun fact: english music & poetry tends to favor iambs (pairs of unstressed & stressed syllables) in groups of 5 while french doesn’t really use a stressed/unstressed designation and favors groups of 6 syllables, which is one reason lyrics/verse may be hard to translate from one language into the other.
“will deliver us all.” went back and forth listening to the audio on this one… could also be just a weird pronunciation of “delivered from her [truth’s] tower” but the grammar made slightly less sense so i opted for the other choice.
“ce qu’on sait” is a genius title for melchior’s theme because of what it becomes by the end of the show. i won’t spoil the wordplay, but do keep an eye out in the finale song translation. (i’ll link this post with that one when both are up, so they can reference each other.)
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