Songs with a message

[Dan]

This is like the "What are you listening to" thread but limited to songs that try to convey a message. Please add the copy / pasted lyrics along with the song.

First one goes well with the recent legalization of marriage. My translation between [brackets].

Danny Bédard's Faire la paix avec l'amour [Make peace with love]



J'ai pas d'mandé à venir au monde
J' veux pas non plus rester dans l'ombre
J'ai pas choisi celui que j'aime
J' veux pas non plus cacher ma peine

[I didn't ask to be born
I don't wait to stay in the shadows
I didn't choose he who I love
I don't want to hide my sorrow]

Je suis pendu à tes lèvres
J'entends la porte qui se referme
J'éteins le soleil qui se lève
T'as jamais su calmer ma fièvre

[I'm hung to your lips
I heard the door closing
I turn off the rising sun
You never could quiet my fever]

T'as jamais pu lever les poings
Pourtant je pleure toutes les nuits
Ces blessures-là, je les guéris
J'ai l'impression qu'ça va trop loin

[You never could raise your fists
But I cry every night
Those wounds, I nurse them
I feel this is going too far]

J'ai dû combattre mes envies
Et faire semblant d'aimer la vie
Mais aujourd'hui c'est à mon tour
De pousser la porte et voir le jour
De reconnaître qui je suis
Et faire la paix avec l'amour

[I had to fight my urges
And pretend I loved life
But today it's my turn
To push the door and see the day
To recognize who I am
And make peace with love]

J'ai peur de ta voix et du noir
Le noir qui longe le désespoir
Celui-là même qui me poursuit
Et qui me plonge dans l'oubli

[I'm afraid of your voice and the dark
The dark that borders on despair
The same that chases me
And throw me into oblivion]

J'ai pas d'mandé à venir au monde
J' veux pas non plus rester dans l'ombre
J'ai pas choisi celui que j'aime
Et je ne fais qu'un avec ma peine

[I didn't ask to be born
I don't wait to stay in the shadows
I didn't choose he who I love
I'm one with my sorrow]

J'ai dû combattre mes envies
Et faire semblant d'aimer la vie
Mais aujourd'hui c'est à mon tour
De pousser la porte et voir le jour
De reconnaître qui je suis
Et faire la paix avec l'amour (bis)

[I had to fight my urges
And pretend I loved life
But today it's my turn
To push the door and see the day
To recognize who I am
And make peace with love] (repeat)

[Mark]

Pollaponk - No Prejudice



Life is way too short for short-sightedness
and tell me who has got the time
for narrow-mindedness
Listen to what I say
cause every-buh buh buh buh buh buh
body looks the same on the inside
And it puh puh puh puh puh puh puh puh
pays:
to wear a smile

Let’s do away with prejudice
don’t discriminate, tolerance is bliss
we got to get together on this
cross this problem off our list
I may stutter when I speak
(but) you don’t need to call me freak
it’s not trigonometry
inside we’re the same

HEY

Even if you're taller
Or someone who is smaller
Or perhaps you're thinner
Or one who loves his dinner
Listen to what I say
cause every-buh buh buh buh buh buh
body looks the same on the inside
And it puh puh puh puh puh puh puh puh
pays:
to wear a smile

Let’s do away with prejudice
don’t discriminate, tolerance is bliss
we got to get together on this
cross this problem off our list
I may stutter when I speak
(but) you don’t need to call me freak
it’s not trigonometry
inside we’re the same
buh buh buh buh buh buh…

HEY

Let’s do away with prejudice
don’t discriminate, tolerance is bliss
we got to get together on this
cross this problem off our list
I may stutter when I speak
(but) you don’t need to call me freak
it’s not trigonometry
inside we’re the same

Lala lalalala lala lalalala lala lalalala
Lala lalalala lala lalalala lala lalalala
Lala lalalala lala la

Let’s do away with prejudice
don’t discriminate, tolerance is bliss
we got to get together on this
cross this problem off our list
I may stutter when I speak
(but) you don’t need to call me freak
it’s not trigonometry
inside we’re the same