ENGLISH TRANSLATION
| 1 | It's a green night | 15:32 |
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| The night of the barricades | ||||||||
| A green night, or a red, | ||||||||
| blue or black night | ||||||||
| what does it matter | ||||||||
| it matters my friend | ||||||||
| The hope of victory | ||||||||
| 2 | The dream has come true | 15:25 | ||||||
| unbridled pleasure | ||||||||
| live without slackness | ||||||||
| kiss without faking | ||||||||
| Total playing time | 30:57 | |||||||
Music composed and arranged by Vangelis.
Songs: inscriptions on walls in Paris (May 1968)
Copyrights is owned by: Warner Bros. and Filipacchi
Lyrics transcribed from LP recording (lyrics not available on sleeve).
IT'S A GREEN NIGHT ...
| Additional information is printed between [ ] | |||
| [street noises, siren ambulance, police cars, shooting etc.] | |||
| [Whistle] | |||
| La la la la la la la la [with the chorus:] "??? ...the cobble back there" | |||
| la la .. | |||
| [In the streets of Paris:] | |||
| - | "What's wrong with you?" [background female voice] | ||
| - | "There is no cobble here" | ||
| - | "... The radio-station" | ||
| - | "Can you tell me why shouldn't we pass it" | ||
| - | "You can pass it now, by 100, by 10
thousand, by 20 thousand, by 100 thousand" |
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| - | "... let them pass" [background male voice] | ||
| - | "... Go ..." [background male voice] | ||
| - | "don't argue, just push and that'll be it" [background female voice] | ||
| - | "Unions are no longer supportive, the workmen unions have abandoned us" | ||
| - | "you must understand that it's a
new experience for all of us and the dialogue hasn't started yet" |
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| - | "It will never work, because we won't come out on top" | ||
| - | "At last we can win, But it is possible, it may be sooner than you think" | ||
| - | "this way, you'll never achieve your goals" | ||
| - | "It's possible" | ||
| - | "without violence, you may try something" | ||
| - | "there has been enough of this violence" | ||
| ....... | |||
| [synthes + chorus]: | |||
| la la la la la .... | |||
| mm mm mm mm mm .... | |||
| ooh .... | |||
| la la la la la .... | |||
| [In the streets of Paris:] | |||
| - | "... go back to the Sorbonne [University]" | ||
| - | "I hope you understand" | ||
| - | "if you stay here, the police
will charge, you have a quarter of an hour to return to the university. The university will be open for you to return. Don't stay here, because it will be a massacre" |
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| - | "so we have to go back" | ||
| - | "I don't know if you are aware
of the number of wounded persons on Friday-night" |
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| - | "On Friday-night there were barricades, but there's none here" | ||
| - | "..." | ||
| - | "so, the more killings, the happier you'll be" | ||
| [song:] It's a green night the night of the barricades a green night, or a red, blue or black night what does it matter, my friend what does it matter, my friend the hope of victory it matters my friend what does it matter, my friend the hope of victory it matters my friend it matters my friend it's a green night the night of the barricades a green night, or a red, blue or black night it's a green night |
the night of the
barricades a green night, or a red, blue or black night what does it matter, my friend what does it matter, my friend the hope of victory it matters my friend what does it matter, my friend the hope of victory it matters my friend it matters my friend it matters my friend it matters my friend it matters my friend it matters my friend |
| [street noises, siren ambulance, police cars, shooting etc.] | |||
| [chorus:] | |||
| la la la la la la .... | |||
| mm mm mm mm mm mm .... | |||
| [Whistle] |
Back to the French lyrics
THE DREAM HAS COME TRUE ...
| The dream has come
true unbridled pleasure the dream has come true [background male voice] "the cobble back there" the dream has come true kiss without faking kiss without faking live without slackness live without slackness kiss without faking kiss without faking live without slackness live without slackness the dream has come true kiss without faking kiss without faking live without slackness live without slackness kiss without faking kiss without faking |
live without
slackness live without slackness kiss without faking kiss without faking the dream has come true the dream has come true unbridled pleasure unbridled pleasure the dream has come true the dream has come true kiss without faking kiss without faking live without slackness live without slackness kiss without faking kiss without faking live without slackness live without slackness kiss without faking kiss without faking |
| [chorus:] | ||
| la la la la la .... | ||
| [street noises, siren ambulance, police cars, shooting etc.] | ||
| [man 1:] | ||
| - | "You demonstrated here, why? for nothing, it's better to go to sleep now" | |
| [man 2:] | ||
| - | "Don't get nervous" | |
| [man 1:] | ||
| - | ".. at last, it's fantastic! ... the
institutes want you to stop, it's really great to go back to the university and take your books (???) again... it's perfect. You have done nothing. you have marched here, you arrived, and you marched leave" |
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| [man 3:] | ||
| - | "stop talking like that!, you want to send people unarmed" | |
| [man 4 :] | ||
| - | "it's like a carnival here" | |
| [man 1:] | ||
| - | "so tomorrow Charles [the president] will be
happy, he will laugh, that's all" |
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| [woman :] | ||
| - | "They want blood" | |
| [man 1:] | ||
| - | "Do you want to laugh, miss?" | |
| [man 5:] | ||
| - | "It will not work this way!" | |
| [man 1:] | ||
| - | "No but I look like I want to die... it's like crying and crying" | |
| [man 6:] | ||
| - | "Can you explain how do you want to
accomplish all this .. sending unarmed people against armed people" |
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| [man 1:] | ||
| - | "unarmed people, it's a shame, let's
confront them, and that's what we have done" |
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| [synthes + trumpet] | ||
| [chorus:] | ||
| La la la la la ... | ||
| mm mm mm mm mm ... | ||
| la la la la la ... | ||
| [radio speaker :] | ||
| - | "ladies and gentlemen, good evening, the news by Etiennes Mougeotte" | |
| - | "After the Odeon Theatre, the students were
evacuated from the Sorbonne [university]. About one hundred policemen with helmets arrived at the Sorbonne at 5.30 PM and during the following hour the 200 or 300 students who were still inside the university were all evacuated one by one. At this moment about 50 police officers check all of the university. A very large force of the police is at the Quartier Latin where, at the periphery of the Quartier Latin, students and the police are still fighting ...." |
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| [Synthes + chorus + trumpet:] | ||
| mm mm mm mm ... | ||
| la la la la ... |
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