Florence (Russian)

Alright, I couldn't find anywhere a good video from the Russian show with this song, so I've made this. It's Russian song (singing: Frollo - Alexander Marakulin; Gringoire - Vladimir Dibskiy) with video from the orginal French version with Daniel Lavoie and Bruno Pelletier

I tried to translate the lyrics to English, but the languages are very different, so my translation won't be perfect (if you find a mistake, please contact me)

FROLLO
Tell me, poet
What does "Renaissance" mean
And what they are talking about
In the world and here?

GRINGOIRE
They say that the earth is round
Like the moon
And that there are lands
Which we don't know

The ships are sailing to find America
And the maps of the world have to be drawn once again

FROLLO
Luther will rewrite insolently the New Testament
The society is threatened by an unheard-of schism

GRINGOIRE
They say, that
the great printing machine has been invented

FROLLO
And Europe will be flooded
by a solid river of papers

GRINGOIRE
Rain of pamphlets and tracts
Gale of ideas and satires

BOTH
It's a new deluge
which will sweep off ewerything

GRINGOIRE
It's a new deluge - deluge of knowledge and feelings
It will rise the word above all arts

FROLLO
It's a new deluge - deluge of dubious words
And everything will fall - church, God and cross

The hour will struck for everything

BOTH
The world is changing - there will be unprecedented works
We will fly to the stars - and that's not enough
And in our pride we will forget about God
We will ruin the old church and create a new myth

The hour will struck for everything
The hour will struck for everything

Category:

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• Dame
• de
• Paris
• Florence
• Russian

[9Shadowfax9]

"the society is threatened by an unheard-of schism"

"a solid rush(<-- stream, river, whatever) of papers"

"it will raise the word above all arts" overall, very accurate translations.

My translation, last 4 lines go

"And in our selfish pride

Belief in God shall fade

Cathedrals shall collapse

A new myth will be made."

Basically same thing, isn't it?

[Cossynieur]

Thanks! Imagine London cast singing your texts... That would be amazing!

[KatharineYumiko]

ну, кстати, неплохо. если учесть, как мне не нравится русский Гренгуар, особенно в сравнении с Брюно. А тут, я даже могу сказать, что весьма-весьма))

[9Shadowfax9]

*sigh* That would mean meeting Garou, Bruno, Daniel, in person... *heart attack*

[9Shadowfax9]

funny! for some reason I found this amusing... I have video with Golubev as Frollo (I take it you do to?) But no one in their right mind would dare post that. I find a horizontally challenged Frollo a little hard to believe...

[rabidfangirl777]

well that was weird...still love them though- french cast and russian