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Mer M​é​diterran​é​e

from Arusha by Tracks for Amnesty

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mer méditérranée, oh ma mère méditérannée, oui ma mort méditérrannée, oh cette mort méditérrannée…
Mediterranean Sea, o my Mediterranean mother, yes, my Mediterranean death, this Mediterranean death…

(IN FRENCH, MER= SEA, MERE= MOTHER, MORT=DEATH)

1)mer méditérrannée, toi si belle, toi si calme,
au bleu azur, azur et jade;
caveau liquide, tombe outre-mer et cobalt
témoin d’autant de noyades
anonymes!
tant de cris étouffés dans tes vagues, de bateaux engouffrés dans tes naufrages…
ces centaines d’âmes perdues oubliées parmi tes mirages…

Mediterranean Sea, you who are so beautiful and calm, blue like the sky, blue and green…
You are like a liquid tomb- dark and rich blue,
And witness to so many drownings
(anonymous!)
So many cries stifled in your waves, so many boats swallowed in your shipwrecks…
Hundreds upon hundreds of souls lost and forgotten amongst your illusions…

mer méditérranée, oh ma mère méditérannée, oui ma mort méditérrannée, oh cette mort méditérrannée…

2)de Lampedusa à Gibraltar, les corps que tu régurgites au bord des plages,
viennent troubler le soleil doré des vacanciers,
viennent hanter le rêve des passants, le sommeil tremblotant des écoliers,
cette longue souffrance, le soleil voile, noyé des sans-papiers…
anonymes!

From Lampedusa to Gibraltar, the bodies you throw up on the beach cast a shadow upon the holiday makers’ golden sunshine, and haunt the dreams of passers-by, the trembling sleep of schoolchildren…
This long and heavy suffering: the hidden drowning sun of all illegal migrants…
anonymous!

3)ni d’ici ni d’là-bas, sans papiers tu n’es pas, sans papiers c’est sans droit sans toit,
alors que toi et moi traversons les oceans, sans papiers
moi et toi nous y mourrons dedans…
anonymes!
ni d’ici ni d’là-bas, victimes noyées des lois, légiférées dans les riches couloirs politiques…
victimes des manipulations médiatiques, des crédulités, des peurs publiques,

You’re neither from here nor there- when you’re an illegal migrant you do not exist; when you’re an illegal migrant, you have no rights, no roof over your head…
But whereas you and me can travel across oceans, without the right papers, me and you just die in them…
anonymously!
Neither from here nor there, those drowned victims of laws tabled in politics’ plush corridors…
Those drowned victims of media games, of public credulities, and public fears…

4)oh mer méditérrannée…
oh ma mère, laissée à attendre, rêver, espérer…
un petit retour, une petite parcelle de moi, de ma mort méditérrannée…
anonyme!
Oh my Mediterranean Sea…

Oh my mother, left to wait, to dream, to hope…
…for something to come back, a tiny part of me, of my Mediterranean death…
anonymous!

5) déjà mon coeur me brule, mes paupières se ferment, je ne vois que le bleu autour…
les derniers larmes des voyageurs, les derniers cris, les derniers pleurs…oh ma mère
un silence azur, une infinie douleur de cette mort, cette mort méditérrannée…

Already my heart begins to burn, my eyelids are closing, I can only see blue around me…
I can only hear the travelers’ last tears, the final cries, the final wails…oh mother!
A blue silence, an infinite pain… this death, this Mediterranean death…

mer méditérranée, oh ma mère méditérannée, oui ma mort méditérrannée, oh cette mort méditérrannée…

credits

from Arusha, released December 10, 2009
written by Arusha, arranged by Arusha and Isaac Mugunda; guitars: Isaac Mugunda; vocals: Arusha; flute: Serena Santi; produced by Vayn

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