Plume Latraverse (born Michel Latraverse May 11, 1946) is a prolific singer… Read Full Bio ↴Plume Latraverse (born Michel Latraverse May 11, 1946) is a prolific singer, musician, songwriter and author from Quebec. His career spans over 30 years; Latraverse is probably one of the most influential names in Quebec counterculture.

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Désemparé
Plume Latraverse Lyrics

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Par la nuit de tempête où les phares s’engouffrent
Comme des fouettés et des déterminés
Nous marchons, ignorants de la trappe des gouffres
Vers l’horreur des demains sans paix ni charité

Désemparé
Désemparé

Vents, étoiles, déserts, la Ville va nous prendre
Chères amours et bois et montagnes et prés
Et lacs de bleus reflets et couleurs de ciel tendre
Pour enchaîner et abrutir vos libertés

Désemparé
Désemparé
Ouh, désemparé

Où irons-nous, mon âme, à quelle heure servile?
Ô forces de la vie, ô lumières d’été
Quels pays fabuleux, quelles secrètes îles
Vous hébergent encore en toute intégrité?

Dites-dites-le-nous, les oiseaux de passage
Qui avez bu le vent des pays visités
Lors d’une escale autour d’un étrange village
Auriez-vous eu cette vision d’un enchanté?

Désemparé

Désemparé
Désemparé

Overall Meaning

The song "Désemparé" by Plume Latraverse explores themes of uncertainty, confusion, and helplessness. The opening verse depicts a stormy night where the singers trek towards an ambiguous future, unaware of the potential dangers lurking ahead. The repeated chorus "Désemparé" emphasizes the feeling of being lost and adrift. The second verse conveys a sense of dread as the singers feel powerless against the forces that will take away their freedoms and confine them to a monotonous city life.

The following verse poses a question to the singers' souls, wondering what they will do in a subservient world. They call upon the forces of life and light, encouraging them to guide them towards fantastical lands and secret islands that can offer full and integrated life. The final verse inquires of the "birds of passage" if they have seen a vision of enchantment during their travels. This could reflect the desire for the singers to break free from their current predicament and seek out a magical existence.

Overall, "Désemparé" depicts the feelings of apathy and longing towards an idealistic existence. The song reiterates the sense of despair that many people feel due to a lack of control of their lives and their future.

Line by Line Meaning

Par la nuit de tempête où les phares s’engouffrent
In the stormy night where headlights plunge

Comme des fouettés et des déterminés
Like those cracked and determined

Nous marchons, ignorants de la trappe des gouffres
We walk, unaware of the pitfalls

Vers l’horreur des demains sans paix ni charité
Towards the horror of tomorrows without peace or charity

Désemparé
Desperate

Vents, étoiles, déserts, la Ville va nous prendre
Winds, stars, deserts, the City will take us

Chères amours et bois et montagnes et prés
Dear loves and woods and mountains and meadows

Et lacs de bleus reflets et couleurs de ciel tendre
And lakes of blue reflections and tender sky colours

Pour enchaîner et abrutir vos libertés
To enchain and numb your liberties

Désemparé
Desperate

Où irons-nous, mon âme, à quelle heure servile?
Where will we go, my soul, at what slavish hour?

Ô forces de la vie, ô lumières d’été
Oh forces of life, oh summer lights

Quels pays fabuleux, quelles secrètes îles
What fabulous lands, what secret islands

Vous hébergent encore en toute intégrité?
Still shelter you in all integrity?

Dites-dites-le-nous, les oiseaux de passage
Tell us, tell us, passing birds

Qui avez bu le vent des pays visités
Who have tasted the wind of visited lands

Lors d’une escale autour d’un étrange village
During a stopover around a strange village

Auriez-vous eu cette vision d’un enchanté?
Would you have had this vision of an enchanted one?

Désemparé
Desperate

Lyrics © Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Gaston Miron, Gilles Belanger

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