Voyageur
Les Ogres de Barback Lyrics

J’ai marché longtemps pieds nus,
I walked barefoot for a long time, symbolizing that I gave up comfort and convenience for the sake of exploration.

Je n’avais plus besoin de chaussures !
I did not need shoes anymore as I had discovered my true path in life that I could follow with or without them.

Je prenais le temps voulu
I took all the time that was necessary because the journey was more important than the destination.

J’y allais lentement mais sûr
I traveled slowly but surely, emphasizing the importance of progress over speed.

Et si les voisins en colère
Even if the hostile neighbors did not understand or support my journey,

De me voir partir comme un mendiant
that did not mean I was beggarly or lost, but that I had made a conscious decision to explore and leave their judgment behind.

Eurent un jugement de Tonnerre,
the thundering judgment would only apply to them, not to me, as I had already moved on.

Sur toi, sur moi, pendant tout ce temps
This judgment did not just affect them or me, but lingered until the present time.

Maman, je suis revenu
I have returned to you, but not as the same person who left.

Il faut que tu comprennes
It is important that you understand my journey and my true identity.

La vie que tu m’avais voulue
The life you envisioned for me was not the one that I was meant to have.

Cette vie n’était pas la mienne
This life was not mine to live, but rather one that was imposed upon me.

J’ai laissé mon frère, pardon
I have left my brother and I ask for forgiveness.

J’ai quitté mon père, mille excuses
I have abandoned my father and I apologize deeply.

Le premier vit mais le second
My brother is still alive, but

Est mort de peine et l’on m’accuse
my father died of sadness, and I am being blamed for it.

Mais les cerveaux mal pensants
People with closed and negative minds,

Les oreilles mal entendantes
Those who do not truly listen, hear incorrectly or misinterpret,

Insultent toujours les passants
constantly insult those who cross their path

Critiquent toujours les passantes
and criticize those who pass by them, without truly understanding their journey and purpose.

Je suis repassé une fois
I returned once

Maman t’en rappelles-tu ?
Do you remember, Mom?

Il était déjà mort, tu vois !
But he was already dead, you see!

Le temps jamais ne se rattrape et tue !
Time never stops or takes a break, and it eventually kills all hopes for reconciliation.

J’ai bien voyagé tout ce temps
I have traveled well all this time.

Mon sac à puce ne m’a jamais quitté
My small bag has always been with me.

J’étais dehors, j’étais dedans
I was outside and inside at the same time.

Joyeux, en vie, moitié mort affamé !
I was half-starved, but happy and alive.

Tu sais, la vie que j’ai eue
You know, the life I had

N’aurait jamais été la tienne
could never have been yours

Je vois qu’ici rien n’a changé
I can see that nothing has changed here.

Ça se passe comme dans mes rêves
It's as if it's happening in a dream that I had previously experienced.

Toujours le vent, toujours les blés
The wind and wheat fields are still here as before.

Toujours les pins, toujours la sève
The pine trees are still here, and the sap still flows.

Qu’enfin vienne le temps des pleurs
Finally, the time for tears must come.

Des retrouvailles, des pardons puis de l’oubli
Reunions, pardons, and then forgetting are all necessary for healing.

Je suis malade et j’ai bien peur
I am ill and I am afraid.

Que ce soit là mes toutes dernières nuits
These may be my last remaining nights in the world.

Mais la vie fait des siennes
But life plays tricks in its own way.

Le temps de la trouver vois-tu
It takes time to find a way forward.

Part sans qu’elle ne nous appartienne !
Time passes without us owning it.