Voice of Reason
Dec 17, 2023

Au train où ça va
The way it goes,

Dans cinquante ans on dira
In fifty years they’ll say

D’un air nostalgique,
With a nostalgic air,

“Comme c’était charmant,
“How charming it was,

“Le bébop de nos parents,
“Our parents’ bebop,

“Et leur danses typiques!”
“And their typical dances!”

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C’est toujours comme ça,
It’s always like that,

Car c’est la vie qui veut ça:
For it’s life that wills it so:

Ce que l’on regrette,
That which one regrets

C’est le temps passé,
Is the time gone by,

Qui de loin nous apparaît
Which appears to us from afar

Comme un air de fête.
Like a festive air.

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— Blue Stars of France, En 1920 (In 1920), recorded in 1954

Voice of Reason
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We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.

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