Calendrier de Lavans des chansons engagées (15/24) # Saison 10 - "People have the power"

Patti Smith ne fait pas partie de ma bande son de jeunesse.
Ni de celle de mon vieillissement.

En 10 ans, elle n'est donc pas encore apparue dans ce calendrier de Lavans.

Elle a soutenu Ralph Nader, candidat écologiste pourfendeur des lobbies industriels aux élections présidentielles américaines de 1996 et 2000.

La "marraine" du mouvement punk a sorti "People have the power" sur son album Dream of life en 1988, qui la sortit d'une retraite musicale de 10 ans...

Djubaka la résume ainsi : "Amis utopistes, humanistes, militants, militantes, voici ce que raconte cette chanson : le peuple a le pouvoir, celui de rêver, de gouverner, de reprendre cette terre des mains des imbéciles. Tout ce dont nous rêvons peut se réaliser par notre union. Il faut croire en son efficacité, notre plus grande arme est notre voix collective".

Patti Smith l'a chantée avec Joan Baez l'année de ses 70 ans en 2016,

 

 

 

dans les rues de New-York, en 2019 avec le projet Choir Choir Choir de Daveed Goldman et Nabu Adeelman qui fédèrent des choristes du Monde entier,

 

 

 

avec un simple guitariste en 2020 pour inciter les citoyens à aller voter (contre Trump)...

 

 

"People have the power" de Patti Smith

I was dreaming in my dreaming 

Of an aspect bright and fair 

And my sleeping, it was broken 

But my dream, it lingered near 

 

In the form of shining valleys 

Where the pure air recognized 

And my senses newly opened 

I awakened to the cry 

 

That the people have the power 

To redeem the work of fools 

Upon the meek the graces shower 

It's decreed: the people rule 

 

People have the power 

People have the power 

People have the power 

People have the power 

 

Vengeful aspect became suspect 

And bending low as if to hear 

And the armies ceased advancing 

Because the people had their ear 

And the shepherds and the soldiers 

Lay beneath the stars 

Exchanging visions and laying arms 

To waste in the dust 

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In the form of shining valleys 

Where the pure air recognized 

And my senses newly opened 

I awakened to the cry 

 

People have the power 

People have the power 

People have the power 

People have the power 

 

Where there were deserts I saw fountains 

Like cream the waters rise 

And we strolled there together 

With none to laugh or criticize 

And the leopard and the lamb 

Lay together truly bound 

I was hoping in my hoping 

To recall what I had found 

 

I was dreaming in my dreaming 

God knows a purer view 

As I lay down to my sleeping 

I commit my dream to you 

 

People have the power 

People have the power 

People have the power 

People have the power 

 

The power to dream, to rule 

To wrestle the world from fools 

It's decreed: the people rule 

It's decreed: the people rule 

Listen. I believe everything we dream 

Can come to pass through our union 

We can turn the world around 

We can turn the earth's revolution 

 

We have the power 

People have the power 

People have the power 

People have the power 

 

The power to dream, to rule 

To wrestle the world from fools 

It's decreed: the people rule 

It's decreed: the people rule 

We have the power 

We have the power 

The people have the power 

We have the power