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Romeo and Juliet: The Musical
An English adaptation to the French musical "Romeo et Juliette, La Haine et L'Amour"
London Cast 2002
These Are My Rivers (Aimer)
Romeo and Juliet: The Musical
An English adaptation to the French musical "Romeo et Juliette, La Haine et L'Amour"
London Cast 2002
These Are My Rivers (Aimer)
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![La M O N T U R E - Notre Dame de Paris [{My Dubbing & Translation}]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vy6mxFQKaK4/mqdefault.jpg "La M O N T U R E - Notre Dame de Paris [{My Dubbing & Translation}]
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Song: La Monture
From: Notre Dame de Paris
This is just something I decided to try the other day for fun. I didnt expect anything of it, but I was suprised by how much I liked my own singing of this song. It has a lot of problems, especially since the song is veeery low for me, but you know what? Six months ago, when I thought about trying to sing this song, I laughed. The fact that this actually came out half-decent makes me pretty happy. I like the second verse in particular - I think I have much better control in that section.
And about the lyrics...I love the French version of this song, but I cant sing in French to save my life, so I tried the original English translation. I didnt like it very much, but a while ago I wrote my own English translation of the song, and I decided to give that a try. Those words you hear are my own translation, yes.
Its not perfect, especially since translating is usually a bitch for me to do, and this song in particular is a helluva hard song to translate since every word has to rhyme. But apart from a sentence or word here or there, I actually really like this translation. I think it captures the sense of vengance and desperation that was conveyed in the original a bit better then the London translation.
My lyrics:
Upon your steed our Sun God moves
Such grace, such poise, such virtue
A knight that made my heart swoon
A man with something to prove
Or perhaps this is all a ruse
Youre just a beast on the lose
Going where your heat takes you
Is there a heart in that armor?
My heart is fair, my heart is true
Give me your wounds, Ill heal you
Ill do whatever I must do
But if you want me to love you
If you want me to love you
You must hang Esmeralda
Those childish dreams that I made
Begin to expand and fade
Ill trade them all for your touch
Im not as pure as a dove
Teach me your cruel ways of love
Until I feel too much
Your proclamations are for fools
You loving words are so crude
You will regret your lust for shrews
Ill be your next misfortune
Use your passion to cut me through
Come here and take me, you brute
What else do I have left to lose?
But if you want me to love you
If you want me to love you
You must hang Esmeralda
You must hang the Zingara
This whole thing isnt great, but I had fun doing it. This was more about practicing the voice for a certian character then just showing off my chops - I really wanted her hatred and vindiciveness to be apparent through my characterization, and I think I did that. Fleur-de-Lis is also my favorite character in the show (next to Quasimodo, of course), and a highly underrated and misunderstood one in my opinion. I aint not Julie Zenatti, but I hope I did Fleur some justice :)")
