Joel Kroeker (Vancouver) and Dany Bedard (Montreal) wrote "Deja Vu", the first bilingual song in Canada in about a decade. The song talks about being on different sides of the country, yet being the same people. Truly inspiring.
Here's the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkfTuPlv4o0
Lyrics below.
Dany Bedard: http://www.danybedar.com/
Joel Kroeker: http://www.joelkroeker.com/index.html or http://www.myspace.com/joelkroeker
Press Release (in French): http://www.danybedar.com/pdf/dany_joel_single.pdf
Lyrics:
Written by Joel Kroeker/Dany Bedar
Shadows fall on every town
Like a déjà vu
The wheel keeps turning us around
Is there nothing new
Le jour se leve un peu partout
Autour de nous
C'est different
Deux oceans qui se tiennent debout
Are we lost in time
So far away
Proche en meme temps
Are we the same
Si different
On the same road
Sur le chemin
Guiding us home
Dans le meme refrain
Photographs and souvenirs
Just a memory
The hours crush these stones to sand
To make us free
J'ai oublie mes souvenirs
Et mon sourire
Le temps qui passe
La langue qui casse
La legende qui court
Are we lost in time
So far away
Proche en meme temps
Are we the same
Si different
On the same road
Sur le chemin
Guiding us home
Dans le meme refrain
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2 comments:
That episode totally introduced me to Dany and now I can't get enough! I couldn't believe that this was the first bilingual single in that long. It truely is a fantastic song and I'm greatful there are others that appreciate this type of music!!
I know!!! It did the same thing for me, but for Joel...
I remember a bilingual song way back when, called Femme de societe, sung by Claude Dubois and Leo K.
And I think Roch Voisine has done some bilingual ad-libing...
You'd expect Celine Dion to have done some too, but not to my knowledge!
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