Attn. Tim: "So Many Men" - Youssou N'Dour
Kitty
SO MANY MEN
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(Youssou N'Dour/Pascal Obispo/Lionel Florence/Jonathan Stoner)
From the 2002 Youssou N'Dour album "NOTHING'S IN VAIN [COONO DU RÉÉR]"
Sung by Youssou N'Dour and Pascal Obispo in English, French, and Wolof
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I feel like a bird today
I'm gonna show you, I'm gonna make it
Set me free
C'est un jour qui se lève sur si pue de liberté
(TRANSLATION: Day breaks upon a world so barren of freedom)
Damay daw wuti làqukaay wuti fa liberté
(TRANSLATION: A hiding place will provide me some freedom)
Tant de gestes pareils, sans cesse recommencés
(TRANSLATION: So many of the same gestures, begun again and again)
Daw naa làqu ngir nekk man wuti fa liberté
(TRANSLATION: I'm hiding so I can find myself, and some freedom)
So many men, so many people
Look this way
There's so much to do and so much to give today
So many men, so many people
Something new
There's so much to see if only they'd look this way
Garder les yeux ouverts sans voir de liberté
(TRANSLATION: You keep your eyes open but there's no freedom in
anything they scan)
Dawa dawa dawa dawa dawa ba génn wuutu leneen li gën ci man
(TRANSLATION: In my haste I missed what was destined for me)
N'en faire jamais assez
(TRANSLATION: You can never quite manage to make enough out of it)
Serait-ce trop pour essai, juste un peu de liberté?
(TRANSLATION: Would it be too much to leave them, then, just a small
measure of freedom?)
Jééma xam li waral lii, fii daal, lu ko fi jar,
(TRANSLATION: Trying to find a cause: What's the need?)
ban couleur, ban gént la
(TRANSLATION: What color is it? Which dream does it inhabit?)
So many men, so many people
Look this way
There's so much to give and so much to do today
So many men, so many people
Will it change?
There's so much to do when love blows some hope this way
I feel like a bird today
I'm gonna show you, I'm gonna make it
Set me free
So many people, so many men, so many trials, so many places
Set me free
Look this way
I feel like a bird today
I'm gonna show you, I'm gonna make it
I feel like a bird today, I'm gonna make it
Set me free
Look this way
So many people
So much to do and so much to give today
So many men, so many people
Something new
So much to see today
So many men
I feel like a bird today
Look this way
I'm gonna show you, I'm gonna make it
So much to give and so much to do today
Set me free
So many men, so many people, so many trials
Will it change
Just open your eyes
Set me free
I feel like a bird today
I'm gonna show you, I'm gonna make it
Set me free
Just open your eyes
Just open your eyes
Turn around
Turn around
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Such a beautiful song!,
kit
Tim Mandorf
-Tim