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In Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths, what is the English translation of the French parts? Thanks :)

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Answer:

huh?

Step-by-step explanation:

I do not understand

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Bonjour, j’espère que vous allez bien!

p.s. this is one of my favorite songs, i gotchu :))

Step-by-step explanation:

Achilles Come Down

[Verse 1]

Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down

Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?

You’re scaring us and all of us, some of us love you

Achilles, it’s not much but there’s proof

You crazy-assed cosmonaut, remember your virtue

Redemption lies plainly in truth

Just humour us, Achilles, Achilles, come down

Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?

[Sample]

I see that a lot of people die, because they think that life wasn't worth to be lived. I see others that are, paradoxically, killed for ideas, for illusions, that they give them a reason to live (this, that we call reason to live is at the same time an excellent reason to die)

[Verse 2]

Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down

Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?

The self is not so weightless, nor whole and unbroken

Remember the pact of our youth

Where you go, I’m going, so jump and I’m jumping

Since there is no me without you

Soldier on, Achilles, Achilles, come down

Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?

[Pre-Chorus]

Loathe the way they light candles in Rome

But love the sweet air of the votives

Hurt and grieve but don’t suffer alone

Engage with the pain as a motive

[Chorus]

Today of all days, see

How the most dangerous thing is to love

How you will heal and you’ll rise above

[Sample]

About a manager that killed himself it was said that he had lost his daughter five years age, that he changed a lot after that and that this story had-

[Verse 3]

Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, jump now

You are absent of cause or excuse

So self-indulgent and self-referential

No audience could ever want you

You crave the applause yet hate the attention

Then miss it, your act is a ruse

It is empty, Achilles, so end it all now

It's a pointless resistance for you

[Sample]

What triggered the crisis is almost always uncontrollable. The newspapers often talk about « personal sorrow » or « untreatable disease ». These explanations are valid. But it should be known if the same day a friend of the desperate hasn't spoken to him with an indifferent tone. This one is the -

[Verse 4]

Achilles, Achilles, just put down the bottle

Don’t listen to what you’ve consumed

It’s chaos, confusion and wholly unworthy

Of feeding and it’s wholly untrue

You may feel no purpose nor a point for existing

It’s all just conjecture and gloom

And there may not be meaning, so find one and seize it

Do not waste yourself on this roof

[Pre-Chorus]

Hear those bells ring deep in the soul

Chiming away for a moment

Feel your breath course frankly below

And see life as a worthy opponent

[Chorus]

Today of all days, see

How the most dangerous thing is to love

How you will heal and you’ll rise above

Crowned by an overture bold and beyond

Ah, it’s more courageous to overcome

[Sample]

The souvenirs of a lost country, the hope of a promised land. This divorce between the man of his life.

[Verse 5]

You want the acclaim, the mother of mothers

(It’s not worth it, Achilles)

More poignant than fame or the taste of another

(Don’t listen, Achilles)

But be real and just jump, you dense (insert 4-syllable no-no word)

(You’re worth more, Achilles)

You will not be more than a rat in the gutter

(So much more than a rat)

You want my opinion, my opinion you’ve got

(No one asked your opinion)

You asked for my counsel, I gave you my thoughts

(No one asked for your thoughts)

Be done with this now and jump off the roof

(Be done with this now and get off the roof)

Can you hear me, Achilles? I’m talking to you

[Bridge]

I’m talking to you

I’m talking to you

I’m talking to you

Achilles, come down

Achilles, come down

[Sample]

Yes and no. That would be too easy. But we need the part of those that, without finishing, question anything. Here, I am being slightly ironic: It is about the vast majority. I equally want that those who answer no act as if they think yes. In fact-

[Pre-Chorus]

Throw yourself into the unknown

With pace and a fury defiant

Clothe yourself in beauty untold

And see life as a means to a triumph

[Chorus]

Today of all days, see

How the most dangerous thing is to love

How you will heal and you’ll rise above

Crowned by an overture bold and beyond

Ah, it’s more courageous to overcome

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