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Nov 20 2009 04:49pm

Les Cowboys Fringants is a french folk, folk-rock band from Quebec. They are very well known here, in Quebec, and I wanted to know what you guys think about them.
I really like this band, I don't listen to alot of french bands, but these guys are very good.

Here's a good song (with english subs):

Let me know what you think ! If you want, you can listen to other of their songs of course... just search on YouTube!

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Nov 20 2009 04:50pm

Quote (Contradiction @ Nov 20 2009 04:49pm)

Les Cowboys Fringants is a french folk, folk-rock band from Quebec. They are very well known here, in Quebec, and I wanted to know what you guys think about them.
I really like this band, I don't listen to alot of french bands, but these guys are very good.

Here's a good song (with english subs):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOoBC9IGFpw

Let me know what you think ! If you want, you can listen to other of their songs of course... just search on YouTube!

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This post was edited by Lumpy1 on Nov 20 2009 04:50pm

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Nov 20 2009 04:52pm

Really... give me a second.

It's not the real video but whatever, can you see this one?

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Nov 20 2009 04:56pm

Yes it works

English Lyrics.

There are only a few minutes of my life
At most a few hours, I feel that I fail
My brother died yesterday in the desert
I am now the last human being on Earth

They described to me once when I was a child
This had the air of the world there are very very long
When parents lived with my great-grandfather
And it was still falling snow in winter

In those days we lived with the seasons
And the late summer harvest brought
A pure and clear water flowing in streams
Where did drink deer and moose

But I never saw a desolate planet
Lunar landscapes and suffocating heat
And all my friends die of thirst or hunger
As flies fall ...
Up c'qu'il there anything ...
Nothing ...
Nothing ...

There are only a few minutes of my life
At most a few hours, I feel that I fail
My brother died yesterday in the desert
I am now the last human being on earth

It all started there several years
While my ancestors were obsessed
For pieces of paper that is called money
Who really made some men rich and powerful

And these new gods and no inhibitions
Were ready to do anything to achieve their purposes
For further enriched they razed the land
Contaminated ambient air and drying up the rivers

But after a hundred years people have raised
And warned them that everything must stop
But they did not understand that wise prophecy
These people spoke in terms of profits

It's years later they've seen the nonsense
In the panic has declared a state of emergency
When all the oceans have engulfed the islands
And the floods that have hit major cities

And thereafter for a decade
It was the hurricane and then the fire
Earthquakes and drought
Everywhere the faces were read distress

People had to fight against pandemics
Decimated by the millions of horrible diseases
Then the others died of thirst or hunger
As flies fall ...
Up c'qu'il there anything ...
Nothing ...
Nothing ...

My brother died yesterday in the desert
I am now the last human being on earth
Basically the intelligence that we had given
Have been a poisoned gift

Because there are only a few minutes of life
At most a few hours, I feel that I fail
I can not walk, I can hardly breathe
Farewell humanity ...
Farewell humanity ...

Not bad

Google translate fail, If you want to fix this you can xD

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Nov 20 2009 05:31pm

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There's only few minutes left to my life
At most few hours, I feel that I'm weakening
My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert
I am now the last human on earth

They described me, a long time ago, when I was child
What looked the world a really really long time ago
When my grand-grandfather's father was living
It was still snowing in the winter

In these times we were living to seasons' rythm
And the end of summer was bringing the harvest
A pure and clear water was flowing in the streams
Where came to drink deers and mooses

But all what I saw is a desolating planet
Lunar landscape and suffocating heat
And all my friends dying by the thirst or hunger
As flies are falling untill there is nothing left
Nothing left
Nothing left

There's only few minutes left to my life
At most few hours, I feel that I'm weakening
My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert
I am now the last human on earth

It all began a couples years ago
As my ancestors were obsessed
By pieces of paper that we were calling money
That made some men very rich and powerful

And these new gods never backing up
Were ready to everything to achieve their goal
To get even richer they shaved the Earth
Polluted the air and dried up the rivers

But after hundred years some people raised against
And warned them that they had to stop
But they didn't understand this wise prophecy
These men were only talking in term of profit

It's many years later that they saw the nonsense
In panic they declared the emergency state
When the oceans shallowed the islands
And the floods hitted the big cities

And after that during a whole decade
It was the hurricains and the fires
The earthwakes and the great drought
Everywhere on faces we could read the distress

People had to fight against pandemic diseases
Killed by millions by atrocious diseases
And all the others died from thirst or hunger
As flies are falling untill there is nothing left
Nothing left
Nothing left

My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert
I am now the last human on earth
The intelligence that has been gift us
Was just a great poisoned gift

Because there's only few minutes left to life
At most few hours, I feel that I'm weakening
I can't walk anymore, it's hard to breath
Good bye humanity
Good bye humanity

Some lyrics might sound weird, but sometimes I didn't know the exact word or it's expressions in french so it's hard to translate, but I did my best.
Obviously the song is against big compagnies that pollute the Earth and don't care about it as long as they're doing money, and they're describing what will happen if they continue like this.

This post was edited by Contradiction on Nov 20 2009 05:33pm

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Nov 21 2009 12:08pm

21 views and only one posts... come on.

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