LâĂVEIL DU PRINTEMPS: SCENE 2 PART 2
   CHANSON: ÂŤ CE QUâON SAIT Âť
GARĂONS (mĂŠlopĂŠe sous MELCHIOR): LÄŤtora, multum ille et terrÄŤs iactÄtus et altĹ
VÄŤ superum saevae memorem IĹŤnĹnis ob ÄŤram;
Multa quoque et bellĹ passĹŤs, dum conderet urbem.
Arma virumque canĹ, TrĹiae quÄŤ prÄŤmus ab ĹrÄŤs
ÄŞtaliam, fÄtĹ profugus, LÄvÄŤniaque vÄnitâŚ
MELCHIOR: Ce quâon sait
En histoire ou en science
Sont des faits
Quâon apprend en patience
Si tu doutes,
Ils puniront lâinsolence
De tout ce que tu sais
Mais que tu rĂŠprimes en silence
Ce quâon vit
Est ĂŠcrit dans les livres
Tu lâapprends
Mais câest de pire en pire
[On te] corrige,
Mais lâargent est la cible
En veritĂŠ on [ĂŠrige]
Tout ce quâil y a dans la Bible
Mais je sais
[Ceux connes nous disent pas]
Que je garde dans secret
Au fond de moi
Et je sais
Ne pas leur faire confiance
Juste [les y aurai mĂŠfiance]
Et je pas
Dans un rĂŞve idĂŠal
Je mâĂŠgare
Pendant que lâon me parle
Jâen appelle
[Ă percer lĂ oĂš] grand jour
La vĂŠritĂŠ, comme elle serait,
[DĂŠlivrait nous Ă tous]
Regardez, regardez
Jâen appelle Ă ce que je saurai
Regardez, regardez
Jâen appelle, jâen appelle Ă ce que je saurai
   SONG: âWHAT WE KNOWâ
BOYS (chanted under MELCHIOR): LÄŤtora, multum ille et terrÄŤs iactÄtus et altĹ
VÄŤ superum saevae memorem IĹŤnĹnis ob ÄŤram;
Multa quoque et bellĹ passĹŤs, dum conderet urbem.
Arma virumque canĹ, TrĹiae quÄŤ prÄŤmus ab ĹrÄŤs
ÄŞtaliam, fÄtĹ profugus, LÄvÄŤniaque vÄnitâŚ
MELCHIOR: What we know
In history or in science
Are facts
We learn through patience
If you waver
They will punish the insolence
Of everything you know
But repress in silence
What we live
Is written in books
You learn it
But things only get worse
[They correct you]
But money is the objective
To tell the truth, they [elevate]
Everything in the bible
But I know
[Those morons donât tell us]
What I protect, in secret,
Deep inside me
And I know
Not to trust them
Just [to suspect them]
And I walk
In an perfect dream
My mind wanders
While others talk to me
I call for them
[To break through to where,] one day
The truth, how it will be,
[Will deliver us all]
Watch, watch,
Iâm calling on what I will know
Watch, watch
Iâm calling on what I will know
on in french is loosely equivalent to the english one as in âone canât be too prepared,â though the french use it much more frequently. it generally replaces nous (we) in casual conversation, and can also replace tu (you) or il/elle/ils/elles (he/she/they). so ⌠on can cover almost any pronoun, but melchiorâs accusatory tone here makes it clear heâs not using a we sentiment. this is a they situation.
This had some interesting sentence structure which made normally safe assumptions in parsing out unlikely homophones much harder. not sure if this is meant to convey his feeling of intellectual superiority or if some phrases are just positioned strangely because they have to fit the meter of the song. fun fact: english music & poetry tends to favor iambs (pairs of unstressed & stressed syllables) in groups of 5 while french doesnât really use a stressed/unstressed designation and favors groups of 6 syllables, which is one reason lyrics/verse may be hard to translate from one language into the other.
âwill deliver us all.â went back and forth listening to the audio on this one⌠could also be just a weird pronunciation of âdelivered from her [truthâs] towerâ but the grammar made slightly less sense so i opted for the other choice.
âce quâon saitâ is a genius title for melchiorâs theme because of what it becomes by the end of the show. i wonât spoil the wordplay, but do keep an eye out in the finale song translation. (iâll link this post with that one when both are up, so they can reference each other.)
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