Zebda - Une vie de moins (One life less)

M;usic : Zebda
Text : Jean Pierre Filiu
Direction (?) : Ali Guessoum & Natacha Bigan
(description YouTube)
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See also:

- http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/article/071012/une-vie-de-moins-une-chanson-pour-gaza
- http://blog.mondediplo.net/2012-11-02-Une-chanson-pour-Gaza-le-Crif-pour-la-censure
- http://www.blog.raideurs.eu/2012/11/11/zebda-une-vie-de-moins-hommage-aux-palestiniens/
Other videos with "open caption" subtitles in:
- Spanish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtzV-df0gec
- Arabic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeJi7UvvD8
- English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq2MpG4gQgk&feature=plcp

[Instrumental]
(One life less
Production: Ali Guessoum & Natacha Bigan)

[Instrumental]

# I was born in a country that does not exist

# I was born in a land that is no more mine

# An occupied, downtrodden land

# A land autonomous on paper

# I was born under ululations and joyful shouts

# I was born after so many others in the too narrow camp

# The sea was my frontier, my sanctuary

# For forgetting colonizers, the blockade and misery

# I grew up and danced to the sound of exile narratives

# I grew up in the hollows of lives hanging from a thread

# The thread of die-hard hope in a dead-end

# One day, yes, with heads raised, we'll get our own ground

# We'll get our own ground

# We'll get our own ground

# I grew up too fast between mourning and forgetting

# I grew up too fast, at one with the infinite horizon

# The warm sand under my steps lead me to the great beyond

# I'll be so tall, so strong, people will see only me

# I lived in Gaza without ever getting out of it

# I lived from day to day without remorses or sighs

# In spite of barbed wire, curfew, tanks

# I cherished within me the dream to get away

# The dream to get away

# The dream to get away

# I've experienced Intifada's waves of humans

# I've experienced demos and strikes, holding up flags

# We would sing our passion at the top of our voices

# While their planes were taunting us above us

# I died - so they lied - from a stray bullet

# I died, killed by an unknown man

# Who thought he did his duty by shooting in the mist

# At enemy shadows with their pathetic weapons

# I died like thousand others, thousand afterwards, thousand before

# I died on an Autumn evening, an evening during Ramadan

# Yet I only wanted to live, to live free

# I only wanted to be free

# I only wanted to be free

# I only wanted to be free

[Instrumental]

(One life less
on an idea by Ali Guessoun
with Zebda's fraternal permission)

(Music: Zebda
Words: Jean-Pierre Filiu

(Script: Ali Guessoum
Illustrations: Rémy Guyomard)

(Animation: Natacha Bigan
Editing:: Natacha Bigan)

(Direction (?): Ali Guessoun & Natacha Bigan
Production: agence SANSBLANC - wwwsansblanc.com)

Warm thanks to: HAKIM - MOUSS - Clément Tigry - Fabien Bousque

See French transcript in http://www.blog.raideurs.eu/2012/11/11/zebda-une-vie-de-moins-hommage-aux-palestiniens/