tOkKa - le feu là-bas..


**The world is cruel ..The world is wicked

**It's I alone whom you can trust in this whole city

**I am your only friend

I who keep you, teach you, feed you, dress you

I who look upon you without fear

How can I protect you, boy, unless you
Always stay in here..

Away in here ..

Remember what I taught you, Quasimodo..

You are deformed



I am deformed


**And you are ugly..



And I am ugly


**And these are crimes

For which the world

Shows little pity

You do not comprehend..


You are my one defender


**Out there they'll revile you
As a monster


I am a monster


**Out there they will hate
And scorn and jeer..


Only a monster


**Why invite their calumny

And consternation?

Stay in here

Be faithful to me..

I'm faithful

**Grateful to me

I'm grateful



**Do as I say

Obey

And stay

In here..


I'll stay ..In

..here

♦ ♦

" Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone

Gazing at the people down below me..

All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone

Hungry for the histories they show me

All my life I memorize their faces

Knowing them as they will never know me..

All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day

Not above them

But part of them..

And out there

Living in the sun

Give me one day out there..

All I ask is one

To hold forever

Out there..

Where they all live unaware..

What I'd give..

What I'd dare..

Just to live one day out there..


Out there among the millers and the weavers and their wives

Through the roofs and gables I can see them..

Ev'ry day they shout and scold and go about their lives

Heedless of the gift it is to be them..

If I was in their skin.

I'd treasure ev'ry instant

Out there..

Strolling by the Seine

Taste a morning out there..

Like ordinary men..

Who freely walk about there

Just one day and then..

I swear I'll be content..

With my share

Won't resent

Won't despair..

Old and bent

I won't care

I'll have spent..

One day

Out there .." .. ..


-- Quasimodo

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