Pacifique

Just dance
The sea gives us fish
Just dance
Women give us children
Just dance
Stars guide us in the ocean
Just dance
And watch the time go by

On an island in the Pacific
The night gave them two children
One curious and one friendly
Who listened as time passed by

The first one always late
The other up every morning
The first one learned to play the guitar
The other studied to be a politician

The inspired one stayed in the village
Became a simple musician
The rushed one went on a trip
To be forgotten by his own

One studied 10 years at the university
Studied how to manage people
Studied how the printing press works
Did a little coup, set up his own little government

Just dance
The sea gives us fish
Just dance
Women give us children
Just dance
Sugarcane makes us rum
Just dance
And watch the time go by

On an island in the tropics
One day the police arrived
To tell us in a tragic tone
Get rid of all these huts

Don't mess with the police
Let us dance
Don't mess with the police
This is the beach where we were born

The police didn't want to hear it
Enforced the rules
Took out his gun
Shot half of the people

Just sing just dance
No one left to dance
Just play just love
No one left to love

The musician brother
Knowing his politician brother
Went to his office
With determined steps

Rushed one, what's become of you?
Do you know they're killing us in the village?
Setting fire to our huts
Preventing us from living freely

My brother my brother
Understand my position
My brother my brother
I'm part of the institutions

And you see dear friend
If people knew where I come from
Well you see dear friend
I wouldn't be a politician anymore

That's why dear sir
I ordered the evacuation
Without waiting in the night
The people from the island where I was born

My brother said the musician
You've lost yourself in your papers
You who never learned to swim
Your eyes seem to fill with tears
I'll leave you to drown

On an island in the Pacific
Death took the two children
One happy with his music
The other consumed by his torments

Just dance
The sea gives us fish
Just dance
Women give us children
Just dance
Stars guide us in the ocean
Just dance
And watch the time go by