LEARN LYRICS

You didn't ask for

Glory or tears

Neither organ nor prayer

For the dying

Eleven years already

How fast eleven years fly

You'd simply used

Nothing but your weapons

Death doesn't dazzle the eyes

Of the Partisans

Your portraits were

On the walls of our towns

Black with beard and night

Shaggy, threatening

The poster that seemed

A bloodstain

Because when spoken

Your names are hard

Tried to create fear

In passers-by

Nobody seemed to see you

French preferably

People walked blind to you

All day long

But at curfew time

Wandering fingers

Had written under your photos

DEAD FOR FRANCE

And the bleak mornings

Were changed by it

Everything had the color

Uniform of frost

At the end of February

For your final moments

And then one of you

Said calmly

Happiness to all

Happiness to those who'll survive

I die without hate inside

For the German people

Goodbye pain and pleasure

Goodbye roses

Goodbye life

Goodbye light and wind

Marry, be happy

And think of me often

You who will remain

In the beauty of things

When all is over

Later in Erevan

A great winter sun

Lights up the hill

How lovely nature is

And how my heart breaks

Justice will come

On our triumphant steps

Oh my love, my Mélinée

My orphan

And I tell you to live

And to have a child

They were twenty-three

When the rifles blossomed

Twenty-three who gave

Their hearts before their time

Twenty-three strangers

And yet our brothers

Twenty-three in love

With living to the point of dying

Twenty-three who shouted

France as they fell