All translations (and errors) are my own. See separate postings for other tracks.

Translation is not always literal -user 'Snezhika' noted the changes/errors so with their agreement, I've added their translations after mine /.... and in italics throughout. Sometimes words in parenthesis indicate a deeper inference that is not always easy to translate. On occasion I've chosen to use older ways of speech for Dracula, I did so to indicate that he'd been around for centuries; sorry if it causes a bit of confusion for some unfamiliar with it. French original, then follows my English version:

After the introduction by the Narrator, explaining the cruelty of the warrior Prince of Wallachia, and how the King of Hungary gave his daughter to the Prince in marriage - how Dracula's heart was entirely bewitched by her mysterious beauty, Elhemina sings a snatch of a traditional wedding song: 'The Brier Bush' I believe -

The words are Ukrainian I think - [thanks to user 'Sesin' for translating it for me]

Цвіте терен, цвіте терен, а цвіт опадає
Хто з любовю не знається, той горя не знає
Цвіте терен, цвіте терен, а цвіт опадає
Цвіте терен, цвіте терен, а цвіт опадає

Blackthorn is blooming, blackthorn is blooming, and flowers are withering
The one who doesn't know love doesn't know grief
Blackthorn is blooming, blackthorn is blooming, and flowers are withering
Blackthorn is blooming, blackthorn is blooming, and flowers are withering.......

Then begins -

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1:5: Cruelle Et Tendre Mina
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dracula:

Que le ciel s'ouvre et qu'il me donne
Ma raison d'etre sur la Terre
Qu'il me donne et qu'il pardonne
Au guerrier d'avoir fait la guerre
Que le ciel s'ouvre et qu'il m'envoie
Celle a que j'ai dédié ma vie
Pour qu'elle aime enfin Dracula
Et qu'elle se couche dans mon lit

Elhemina:
Prince ne parle pas au ciel
Ce n'est pas ta voix qu'il entend
Lui qui sur ma bouche de miel
A déposé le gout du sang

Duo :
Amour de ma vie je m'abandonne
Entierement a nos prières
Que le ciel s'ouvre et nous pardonne
D'avoir jeté l'amour aux fers

Dracula :
Elhemina que le silence
Recouvre tes paroles
Que notre règne commence
Ailleurs qu'au pays du sheol

Aussi puissant que tous les dieux
Je sais ce que je dois savoir
Et je sais tout ce que je veux
Je suis le prince aux mille pouvoirs

Elhemina :
Femme promise a votre puissance
Mon prince je vous aime déjà -
Depuis le jour de ma naissance
J'étais destinée a vos bras

Dracula :
Alors que brillent les étoiles
Et dis-moi que nous serons heureux

Elhemina :
Je te le jure, mais le mal
Deja s'élève entre nous deux

Dracula :
Que dis-tu la Elhemina
On croirait entendre une folle
Aucun mur ne séparera
La poésie de la parole

Elhemina :
Je porte en moi un lourd secret
Je suis la reine d'un empire
Qui ne vivra jamais en paix
Et qui vous mènera au pire

Duo :
Amour de ma vie je m'abandonne
Entierement a nos prieres
Que le ciel s'ouvre et nous pardonne

Elhemina :
Deja je vois l'éternité
Où vous entrez dans la légende
Seigneur mon maitre bien aime
Deja je suis cruelle et tendre

------------------------------------------------------------------
1: 5. Cruel and Tender Mina
-----------------------------------------------------------------[/B]
Note: I have changed this in places, hopefully keeping the meaning intact. The phrase 'reason d'etre' has been adopted in English. The phrase le 'que ciel s'ouvre' - Let heaven open - is a poetic appeal to receive the forgiveness and grace from God.
** can be rendered more colloquially - 'That's crazy talk'.
It is clear that Dracula and Elhemina are not always referring to the same thing, while Dracula speaks of heaven and sanction he believes it has given him as a warrior Prince, Elhemina refers to darker things......Elhemina is a vampire, and once her song is over, she bites Dracula and infects him and the Nation of Wallachia with her dread disease.....

Dracula:
Heaven has opened and given me /Let heaven open and give me
My reason d'etre on earth
It gives, and it forgives /Let it give, and let it forgive
this warrior for having made the war
For heaven has opened and sent me /Let heaven open and send me
A cause to which I can dedicate my life /That [woman] to whom I dedicated my life
For she loves Dracula at last, /Let her love Dracula at last,
And lays down upon my bed. /And let her lay down upon my bed

Elhemina:
Prince, do not speak to Heaven
That is not the secret voice you hear /It is not your voice he hears
But he who has left upon my honey lips
The taste of blood.

Duet:
Love of my life, I abandon myself
Entirely to our prayers;
Let heaven open and forgive us
For casting our love into hell [hellfire]

Dracula:
Elhemina may the silence
Conceal your words,
Let our reign begin
Beyond the land of the dead.

As powerful as all the gods /[Aussi : likewise, also i.e: 'Also as']
At last I know what I must know / I know all that I should to know
And I know what it is I desire, / I know all that I want to know
I am the Prince with a thousand powers

Elhemina:
Betrothed to you, my powerful Prince
I already love you -
Since the day of my birth,
I was destined for your arms.

Dracula:
Then let the stars shine
To tell me we will be happy / Tell me we will be happy

Ehemina:
I swear to you we will be,
but already an evil rises between us.

Dracula:
What are you saying Elhemina,
You speak as one gone mad,
Not even walls can separate us,
From the poetry of our oath

Elhemina:
I carry within me a heavy secret
I am the Queen of an empire
Which will never live in peace,
And will lead to your destruction

Duet:
Love of my life, I abandon myself
Entirely to our prayers
Let heaven open and forgive us.

Elhemina:
Already I see eternity
Where you enter into legend,
Sire, Master, my only love
Already I am cruel and tender

Notes: Decided to reinstate verse 2 line 3 - my alternative was different - 'In my soul there grows not green shoot' - for those who cannot get 'Little Shop of Horrors' out of their mind when thinking of carnivorous plants !
'Pris' - literally 'taken' in the sense of 'taken ill'. I've used 'torn' as it implies greater violence and pain emblematic of the character, but it could also be more literally translated as 'caught between'. In English at least, there is a very subtle difference between the two: 'caught between' makes Dracula more the victim of the situation, 'torn' implies he has a choice and is not just the puppet of Fate. For me this song sees Dracula agonising over choice - hence my use of 'torn'. Depends how you see the character as to which you prefer.

------------------------------------------------------
1:3: Entre L'amour & la Mort
------------------------------------------------------
Dracula :

A quoi me sert de vivre encore
Sous mes paupières le sang est lourd
Je suis un loup qui se dévore
Pris entre la mort et l'amour

A quoi me sert d'avoir un corps
Qui nest qu'une prison pour mon coeur
Devenu plante carnivore
Je suis un ange prédateur

Moi qui ne vois jamais le jour
A quoi me sert de vivre encore
Pris entre l'amour et la mort
Mais qui me portera secours

Dans cet univers sans pitié
Ou tout bientôt sera brûle

Je meurs, je meurs a tout moment
Qu'il me faut vivre loin de toi
Et moi qui voulait des enfants
Je suis le dernier Dracula

Mais je me vengerai du monde
Et tant pis pour les innocents
Je serai le torrent qui gronde la nuit
Jusqu'a la fin des temps

Mon âme est un oiseau qui pleure
Milles morsures pour un baiser
Dracula coupable d'aimer
Me reviendras-tu rien qu'une heure ?

Toi qui ne m'as jamais quitte
Ou préférés-tu que je meurs ?

Je vous prédis que l'avenir
N'est déjà plus qu'un champ de ruine
Un grand soleil qui se déchire
Sur des forets qu'on assassine

J'y vois des oiseaux de fers blancs
Chevauches par des hommes fous
Criant le nom de Dieu
Avant de mettre leurs frères a genoux

Je vois un océan de sang
J'entends ce qu'entendent les sourds
Quand ils entendent crier le vent
A quoi me sert de vivre encore?
Parmi les cendres éternelles

Pris entre l'amour et la mort
Pris entre l'amour et la mort...

-----------------------------------------
1: 3: Between Love and Death
------------------------------------------
Note : Alternative lines:
*in my soul grows no green shoot

What use is it that I still live
When in my mind there is only blood, [lit: behind my eyes there is only blood]
I am an all devouring wolf /Self devouring wolf
Torn between love and death.

What use have I for this body now,
It's just a prison for my heart
A carnivorous plant*
I am a predatory angel

I who never sees the light of day.
What use is it that I still live
Torn between Love and Death
Which one of them will help me now, Who will help me now

In a universe which has no pity -
That soon will be burned away. \in which everything will soon be burned away

I die, I die every moment
That I am forced to live apart from you,
I who wanted children of my own, yet
I am the last Son of the Dragon. [*see note in running order]

But I will be avenged upon the world, /But I will take my vengence upon the world
So much worse it will be for the innocent,
When I thunder in the night / I will be the thunder that rumbles through the night
until the end of time.

My soul is a bird who cries,
A thousand bites for just one kiss
Dracula: guilty of loving,
Return to me for just one hour -
You who has never left me,
Or would you prefer I die?

Already I see that the future,
Is nothing but desolation. [lit: a field of ruin]
Beneath a Sun of burning tears, [lit 'a great sun which tares
the destruction of the Earth. [' and kills the forests beneath.']

I see great iron birds that fly,
Madmen are their riders,
Who cry out in the name of God,
And force their brothers to their knees.

I see an ocean of blood,
I hear what the deaf hear
When they hear the wind screaming.
Oh what use is it for me to live
Eternally amidst the ashes,

Torn between Love and Death
Torn between Love and Death

---------------------------------------------------
2: 1 ACT II
----------------------------------------------------
(voix hors champs/voice off) Ad vit-am aeter-nam.

Dracula perçoit le parfum de son âme soeur et Mina entend l’écho d’une voix qui résonne de son corps jusqu’à son âme...

Dracula perceives the scent [lit: perfume] of its soul mate and Mina hears the echo of a voice which resounds within her body and soul...

---------------------------------------------------
2: 2 Urgence
----------------------------------------------------
Urgence
Partout dans le monde
Le diable danse
Devant les grands glaciers qui fondent

Urgence
La Terre va craquer
Dans tous les sens
Comment faire pour la protéger

Le futur est-il sans espoir ?
La science est-elle devenue folle ?
Un jour pourrons nous voir
Un monde sans guerre ni pâti ?

Et toi qui es si loin de moi
Trop loin pour m'entendre t'aimer
M'entendre respirer
Toi qui es peut-être en danger

Urgence
La mort est sur nos têtes
Les grandes puissances
On mis le feu à la planète

Urgence
L'enfer est dans le ciel
Étrange alliance
Les anges ont déposé leurs ailes

Et toi qui est si loin de moi
Trop loin pour m'entendre t'aimer
M'entendre respirer
Toi qui es peut-être en danger

Que dirons-nous à nos enfants
Quand ils voudront savoir comment
Nous avons tout fait pour détruire
Leur avenir sur Terre

Que faire
Que faire
Que faire

---------------------------------------
2:2 Urgency/Crisis
---------------------------------------
Urgence means 'emergency' it can be left as urgency but the word can also be translated as 'crisis'

Crisis -
Everywhere in the world
The devil dances
Before huge glaciers that melt

Crisis -
The Earth will crack
In all directions
What to do to save it

Is the future hopeless?
Did Science go mad?
One day to see ourselves
In a world without war nor suffering

And you who is too far from me
Too far to hear my love
To hear me breathe
Perhaps you are in danger too

Crisis -
Death is upon our heads
And great powers
Set the planet on fire

Crisis -
Hell is in the sky
Strange alliance,
The angels lay away their wings

And you who is too far from me
Too far to hear my love
To hear me breathe
Perhaps you are in danger too

What will we say to our children
When they want to know how
We did everything to destroy
Their future on earth

What to do
What to do
What to do

---------------------------------------------------------------
1:20 Mina
---------------------------------------------------------------
[Thanks to 'Snezhicka' for adding some corrections to this]:

J'ai peur de ne plus dire non
J'ai peur de nous trahir
Et de céder aux tentations
Aux plaisirs aux désirs
J'ai chaud j'ai froid tout en dedans

J'ai peur d'effacer le temps
J'ai peur d'oublier nos prières
Et de renier nos serments
Amour dis-moi que faire
Comment te vivre en attendant

Mina où es-tu? Mina, parle-moi
J'ai peur de perdre la raison
J'ai si peur d'oublier ton nom

J'ai peur des absences de mon coeur
J'ai peur du poids de chaque pierre
Et de traverser la frontière
De t'oublier avant
D'avoir vu naître le printemps

Mina où es-tu? Mina, reviens-moi
J'ai peur de perdre la raison
J'ai si peur d'oublier ton nom

Mina où es-tu? Mina, aime moi
Ouvre tes voiles a l'horizon
Ramène-moi vers la raison

Elhemina reviens
Séparé l'archange du martyr
Elhemina reviens
Garde pour moi l'avenir

Mina ou es-tu Mina rêve-moi
J'ai peur de perdre la raison
J'ai si peur d'oublier ton nom

Mina où es-tu? Mina, aime-moi
J'ai peur de perdre la raison
J'ai si peur d'oublier ton nom


-------------------------------------------
1:20 Mina
-------------------------------------------

I am afraid I can't say no [ie resist]
I am afraid to betray us
And to yield to temptations
With the pleasure, with the desire,
I am hot, I am cold inside.

I am afraid to erase time,
I am afraid to forget our prayers
And to disavow our oaths.
Love tell me how
to live waiting for you.

Mina, where are you? Mina speak to me
I am afraid I'll lose my mind,
I'm afraid I'll forget your name

I fear the emptiness of my heart
I fear the weight of every stone
And to cross the frontier
To forget you
Before Spring comes.

Mina, where are you? Mina, come back to me,
I am afraid I'll lose my mind,
I'm afraid I'll forget your name

Mina where are you, Mina show me your love,
Open the veil of the horizon / Open your sails on the horizon
Guide me [back] towards sanity.

Elhemina, come back to me
Separate the archangel from the martyr
Elhemina come back to me
Guard [safeguard] the future for me.

Mina where are you,
Mina come to me in [my] dreams,
I'm afraid, I'll lose my mind,
I'm so afraid I'll forget your name

Mina where are you? Mina, show me your love,
I 'm afraid I'll lose my mind,
I'm so afraid I'll forget your name

--------------------------------------------------
1:21: L'Armée Des Ombres
---------------------------------------------------
Renfield:
Que savez-vous de la douleur
Et des tourments qui me tourmentent
Que savez-vous de ce qui hante
Celui qui vit la mort au coeur

L'armée des ombres s'avance
Qu'elle me possède et qu'elle me donne
La beauté de la violence
Et qu'elle me baise comme personne

L'armée des ombres s'avance
Et qu'elle réveille les eaux qui dorment
Au plus profond de ma souffrance
Couchée prés d'un diable a trois cornes

Ce qui nous manque nous déchire
Ce que l'on possède nous fait mal
Comment vivre avec le désir
Qui fait de l'homme un animal

Que l'armée des ombres se presse
Au secours de ma déchéance
Dans la luxure et dans l'ivresse
Et qu'elle me rende l'innocence

O ma tempête - qui se déchaîne
Pour qu'en moi le calme revienne

L'armée des ombres s'avance
Qu'elle me possède et qu'elle me donne
La beauté de la violence
Et qu'elle me baise comme personne

Que l'armée des ombres s'avance
Et qu'elle réveille les eaux qui dorment
Au plus profond de ma souffrance
Couchée prés d'un diable a trois cornes

Dracula:
Ami quelle est cette douleur
Qui semble déchirer ton âme
Et te ronger de l'intérieur
Quel est ce feu que tu réclames

Renfield :
Ne m'appelle pas ton ami
Nous n'avons pas les mêmes rêves
Nos fleuves n'ont pas le mémé lit
Et nos arbres la mémé sève

Dracula :
Que sais-tu de porter le poids
De la douleur en permanence
Que sais-tu de porter la croix
De l'amour en désespérance

Renfield :
Et toi que sais-tu d'être fou
Et que sais-tu du mal d'amour
Qui me fait marcher a genoux
Sans Dieu sans ami ni secours

Dracula :
Je sais que nous sommes pareils
A deux châteaux au bord du vide
Je suis un aigle dont les ailes
Ne veulent plus être le guide

Duo :
Et nous brûlerons solitaires
Comme brûlent tous les amants
Cloues aux portes de l'enfer
Les yeux crevés par un diamant

----------------------------------------------------------
1: 22: Dialogue- Dracula et Renfield - Le Pacte
------------------------------------------------------------------
Dracula: Renfield, avez-vous déjà connu l’amour et sa passion?
Renfield: J’en ai seulement rêvé!
Dracula: Est seule dont vous rêvez? Seriez-vous prêt à braver le feu de l’enfer pour son baiser?
Renfield: Oui! Oui!
Dracula: Sérier-vous prêt à damner votre âme pour une seule de ses caresses?
Renfield: Je suis prêt à tout pour ma Lucy!
Dracula: Tout?
Renfield: Tout!
Dracula: Je cherche une femme. Une femme que j’aime depuis toujours. Et je sens sa présence. Je sens sa présence par-delà la distance et le temps! Je la sens! Je la sens à travers toi!
Renfield: Mais Lucy c’est mon amour à moi!
Dracula: Mon pauvre ami! Mais elle ne t’a jamais appartenu! Jamais! Je te propose un pacte, Renfield. Amène-moi mon Elhemina, et ne t’inquiète plus pour ta Lucy. Je la ferai tienne.
Renfield: Oh oui!
Dracula: Et seule pour l’éternité!


------------------------------------------------------------------
1: 21 Army of Shadows
------------------------------------------------------------------
note: ['ombre' can mean 'shadow or 'shade' - an unseen presence or force]
Renfield is a drug addict, and in his song refers to his addiction as if she were a woman, possessing him to his descruction.
* this line implies that death will return him to a state of innocence.....
** Although not the translation, kept mine in as it reminds me of images of Christopher Lee as Dracula, he was frequently depicted as having gleaming eyes; like menacing black diamonds.....

Renfield:
What do you know of the pain
And the agonies which torment me
What do you know of that which haunts me
/ You who live with a dead heart

An army of shades advances,
Let her possess me and give me
The beauty of [her] violence,
And let her kiss me alone. [only me]

Let an army of shadows advance,
Let her awaken the dormant waters
With the deepest of my suffering.
Sleeping close, a three horned devil /Lying close, a three horned devil

What we miss tares at us
What we have hurts us
How to live with the desire,
That turns man into an animal.

Still the army of shadows presses on
Aided by my immorality /To help my fall
In the lust and intoxication
Let her render (make) me innocent [again]

Oh a storm bursts out
So that a calm may return

An army of shades advance,
Let her possess me and give me
The beauty of violence,
And let her kiss me alone.

Let an army of shadows advance
Let her awaken the dormant waters
With the deepest of my suffering.
Sleeping close, a three horned devil /Laying close

Dracula:
Friend, what is this pain
That seems to tear at your soul
And knaw at you from within
What is this fire you claim? [to posess]

Renfield:
Do not call me your friend.
We do not have the same dreams,
Our rivers do not have the same bed
Or our trees the same sap.

Dracula:
Know that you carry the weight / What do you know of carrying the weight of
Of pain forever.
Know that you carry the cross /What do you know of carrying the cross
Of love in vain.

Renfield:
And you who also knows this madness
Understands this malady of love
Which makes me crawl on my knees
Without God, without a friend or aid.

Dracula:
I know that we are similar,
Two castles on the edge of the void.
I am an eagle whose wings
Do not want to be the guide any more.

Duet
And we will burn in solitude
As all lovers do,
Nailed in a box beside the doors of hell
Eyes shining like diamonds.** /With eyes gouged with a diamond


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1:22 Dialogue Dracula & Renfield - The Deal (Pact)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dracula: Renfield, do you know of love and it's passions? /Have you known love and it's passions
Renfield: I have only ever dreamt about it.
Dracula: Of whom do you dream? Would you be ready to defy the fires of hell for their kiss?
Renfield: Yes! Yes!
Dracula: Would you damn your very soul for one caress from her? /[Will you damn your soul for only one caress from her?
Renfield: I will do anything for my Lucy!
Dracula: Anything?
Renfield: Anything.
Dracula: I seek a woman. A woman whom I have loved for a long time.. I can feel her presence. I can feel her presence, beyond space and time. I can feel her presence through you.
Renfield: But - Lucy, she is my love!
Dracula: My poor friend! She never belonged to you. Never. I propose a pact, Renfield. Bring me my Elhemina , and you shall never be parted from Lucy again. I shall make her yours. / Bring me m Elhemina, and do not worry about your Lucy anymore I shall make her yours....
Renfield: Oh Yes!
Dracula: Yours alone for Eternity!

---------------------------------------------------
1:23 :Étranges étrangers
----------------------------------------------------
Duo :
Dis-moi qui es-tu
Toi qui me plaît déjà
Toi qui ne m'es pas inconnu
Dis-moi qui es-tu
Toi qui me plaît déjà
Mais que je ne reconnais pas
Qui es-tu
Qui es-tu
Qui es-tu
Qui es-tu

Dracula :
Dis que cherches-tu
En cet endroit de perdition
Ou le vice a tué la vertu
Quelle impression quelle émotion
Que viens-tu faire dans ces ruelles
Dans cette bauge abandonnée
Au désordre et à la misère
D'ou viens-tu étrange beauté

Lucy :
Bel étrange étranger
Toi-même que viens-tu chercher
Quelle espérance quelle pitié
Dis-moi qui viens-tu retrouver

Dracula :
Peut-être un souvenir
Un cygne noir qui me rappelle
Une âme qui m'a vu souffrir
Pourtant, je ne désire qu'elle

Duo :
Dis-moi qui es-tu
Toi qui me plaît déjà
Toi qui ne mes pas inconnu
Dis-moi qui es-tu
Toi qui me plaît déjà
Mais que je ne reconnais pas
Qui es-tu
Qui es-tu
Qui es-tu
Qui es-tu

Lucy :
Je suis un souvenir
Qui se perd dans le temps

Dracula :
Et moi je suis le verbe écrire
Qui ne s'écrit que par le sang
Tes larmes sont les miennes
Je les bois depuis si longtemps
Que maintenant elles m'appartiennent
Et que ma bouche les attend

Duo :
Dis-moi qui es-tu
Toi qui me plaît déjà
Toi qui ne mes pas inconnu
Dis-moi qui es-tu
Toi qui me plaît déjà
Mais que je ne reconnais pas
Qui es-tu
Qui es-tu
Qui es-tu
Qui es-tu

Lucy :
Étranger, qui es-tu

Dracula :
Je suis celui qui souffrira
Dans l'absolu dans l'inconnu

Lucy :
Et je suis celle qui te suivra

Dracula: Crainte rien. Le douleur pour en moment - une plaisir for eternite

Duo :
Dis-moi qui es-tu
Toi qui me plaît déjà
Toi qui ne m'es pas inconnu
Dis-moi qui es-tu
Toi qui me plaît déjà
Mais que je ne reconnais pas

Lucy :
Toi qui me tue

-------------------------------------------------------------------
1: 23 Strange Foreigner
------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: black swan* until the late 17th century 'black swan' was a widespread metaphor for something which couldn't possibly exist. Until black swans were found in abundance in the New World and later in Australia, it was believed swans were always white.


Duet:
Tell me who are you
You whom I already desire [lit: 'You whom I like already': can mean 'am suited to']
You are not unknown to me
Tell me who you are
You whom I already desire
But that I do not recognise
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you

Dracula:
Say what it is you seek
In this place of perdition
Where vice destroys virtue /where vice destroyed virtue
What impressions, what emotions
Made you take this alley (path)
In this abandoned wallow
With disorder and misery,
Where do you come from - strange beauty?

Lucy:
Beautiful strange foreigner
It is yourself you seek /what is it you seek, yourself?
What hope, what pity,
/Tell me, who are you looking for

Dracula:
Perhaps a memory
A black swan * which reminds me of [recalls to me]
A soul I saw suffering, / a soul that I saw suffering
Nevertheless, I desire she. / Nevertheless, it is she alone that I desire

Duet:
Tell me who you are
You whom I already desire
You are not unknown to me
Tell me who you are
You whom I desire already
But that I do not recognise
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you

Lucy:
I am a memory
Lost in time /That vanishes in time

Dracula:
And I am the word to write /and I am the verb to write
which can only be written in blood /which can only be written in blood
Your tears are mine
I have drunk them for so long
That they belong to me
And my mouth awaits them

Duet:
Tell me who you are
You whom I desire already
You are not unknown to me
Tell me who you are
You whom I desire already
But that I do not recognise
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you

Lucy:
Stranger, who are you.

Dracula:
I am one who will suffer
In the void, in the unknown

Lucy:
And I am one who will follow

Dracula: Have no fear. Pain for a moment. Pleasure - for eternity!

Duet:
Tell me who you are
You whom I already desire
You are not unknown to me
Tell me who you are
You whom I desire already
But that I do not recognise

Lucy:
You who kills me.

----------------------------------------------------------
1:18: Nous Sommes Ce Que Nous Sommes
-----------------------------------------------------------
Dracula :
Que savez-vous du genre humain
Et de la solution finale
Que savez-vous du bien
Que savez-vous du mal

Et que c'est peut-etre demain
Que l'horreur tombera sur nous
Comme une bombe et le malin
Nous passera la corde au cou

Et vous
Et vous

Jonathan :
Nous avons tue John Lennon
Tue Sacco et Vanzetti
Nous sommes le diable en personne
Hiroshima Nagasaki

Nous avons tue Guevara
Nous avons tue Kennedy
Humilie Nelson Mandela
Et brule le Mississippi

Trio :
Nous sommes ce que nous sommes des hommes
Que savez-vous de vous
Que savons-nous de nous

Renfield :
Nous avons sanctifie Mao
Nous avons permis Tian'anmen
Franco, Salazar et Castro
Pinochet, Staline, Ben Laden

Nous avons tue des indiens
Des noirs, des juifs et des homos
Nous avons enfante les chiens
Qui nous devoreront bientot

Jonathan & Renfield :
Et vous
Et vous

Dracula :
Nous avons ete les bourreaux
De Luther King, d'Atahualpa
Copernic et Galileo
Nous sommes les fils d'Attila

Pourquoi l'homme est-il donc un loup
Cinq siecles et plus de barbarie
En aurons-nous un jour assez
Du sang des larmes et des cris

Trio :
Nous sommes ce que nous sommes des hommes
Que savez-vous de vous
Que savons-nous de nous

Renfield :
Nous avons invente Hitler
Bormann Goering Eichmann Satan

Dracula :
Nous avons blesse l'univers
Qui s'eteindra dans peu de temps

Jonathan :
Plus aucun signe d'innocence
La grande noirceur est partout

Trio :
Nous avons tue l'esperance
Nous sommes assoiffes de puissance

Jonathan :
Que savez-vous de la Shoah
Du genocide en Armenie

Renfield :
Massoud il etait une fois
Un peuple frere en Acadie

Dracula :
D'Ian Palac a Da Vinci
Nous sommes de nuit et brouillard

Trio :
C'est ce que nous aurons ecrit
De plus terrible dans l'Histoire

Nous sommes ce que nous sommes des hommes
Que savez-vous de vous
Que savons-nous de nous
De nous

------------------------------------------------------
1:18 : We Are What We Are
------------------------------------------------------
Dracula:
What do you know of Mankind
And of the final solution
What do you know of Good
What do you know of Evil

Then perhaps tomorrow /And that it could be even tomorrow
That horror will fall upon us
Like a bomb, and the devil
Will tie a noose our necks

And you
And you

Johnathan:
We are the killers of John Lennon
We killed Sacco and Vanzetti
We are the devil incarnate
Hiroshima, Nagasaki

We killed Guervara
We killed Kennedy too
Humiliated Nelson Mandela.
And set fires on the Mississippi

Trio:
We are what we are, we areonly men
/What do you know of yourselves?
What do we know of ourselves?

Renfield
We have sanctified Mao
We have allowed Tiananmen
Franco, Salazar and Castro,
Pinochet, Stalin, Bin Laden

We killed the Indians.
The Blacks, the Jews and the Homos
We have given birth to dogs
Who will soon devour us

Johnathan and Renfield
And you
And you

Dracula:
We are the torturers
Of Luther King, of Atahualpa
Copernicus and Galileo
We are the sons of Attila

This is why Man is the wolf, /Why oh why,is man like the wolf?
In five centuries and more of cruelty /More than five centuries of barbarity
We have made our days /We will never have had enough
Of blood, of tears and cries.

Trio:
We are what we are, we are only men
What do you know yourselves
What do we know of ourselves

Renfield:
We created Hitler
Bormann, Goering, Eichmann, Satan

Dracula:
Within us, the wonders of the Universe, /Within us we hurt/wound the universe
And yet we will die out in time /And it will so fade out

Johnathan:
No more do we bear the signs of innocence /There is no more innocence in the world
Since we covered the world in darkness. /There is darkness everywhere

Trio
We killed all hope
We are thirsty only for power.

Johnathan:
What do you know of Shoah
Of the genocide in Armenia

Renfield:
Massoud, he was once
A brother of Acadia

Dracula:
From Ian Palac to Da Vinci
We are of night and fog

Trio:
And what we write of our time
Will be even worse than in History

We are what we are, we are only men
What do you know yourselves
What do we know of ourselves
Ourselves

-------------------------------------------
2:14 : L'Amour Aux Deux Visages
-------------------------------------------
Jonathan:
L’amour n’est pas ce que tu dis
Tu es trop cruel pour aimer
Tu nous as tous trahis
Même ton ombre t’a quitte

Dracula:
L’amour est le frère des tourments
L’amour n’est pas ce que tu crois
Son coeur est si brûlant
Que prés de lui l’enfer est froid

Jonathan :
L’amour n’est pas ce que tu dis

Dracula :
L’amour n’est pas ce que tu crois

Duo :
Elhemina choisis, c’est Jonathan ou Dracula

Jonathan
L'amour n'est pas ce que tu prends
L'amour est dans ce que tu donnes
Ici et maintenant
L'amour est un dieu qui pardonne

Dracula :
L’amour n’est pas ce que tu penses
L’amour est le fils de l’enfer
Il est fait de souffrance
Et toi tu n’as jamais souffert

L’amour n’est pas ce que tu dis

Jonathan :
L’amour n’est pas ce que tu crois

Duo :
Elhemina choisis, c’est Jonathan ou Dracula

Seulement je t’en supplie
Détourne-toi de lui
Ne t’en approche pas
Tu le regretteras
Mina reviens-moi

Jonathan :
L’amour n’est pas ce que tu dis

Dracula :
L’amour est le frère des tourments

Jonathan :
Tu es trop cruel pour aimer

Dracula :
L’amour n’est pas ce que tu crois

Jonathan :
Tu nous as tous trahis

Dracula :
Son coeur est si brûlant

Jonathan :
Même ton ombre t’a quitte

Dracula :
Que prés de lui l’enfer est froid

Jonathan :
L’amour n’est pas ce que tu dis

Dracula :
L’amour n’est pas ce que tu crois

Johnathan:
L'amour est dans ce que tu donnes

Dracula:
L’amour est le fils de l’enfer

Johnathan:
Ici maintenant

Dracula:
Il est fait de souffrance

Johnathan:
L'amour est un dieu qui pardonne

Dracula:
Et toi tu n’as jamais souffert


-------------------------------------------------------------
2:14: Between Love & Death (Two Faced Love)
--------------------------------------------------------------

Johnathan:
Love isn't what you say it is
You're too cruel to love,
You betrayed us all
Even your shadow has deserted you

Dracula:
Love is the brother of pain,
Love isn't what you believe it is
It's heart burns so bright
That beside it Hell is cold

Johnathan:
Love isn't what you say it is

Dracula:
Love isn't what you think it is.

Duet:
Choose Elhemina -
it's Johnathan or Dracula

Johnathan:
Love isn't what you take
Love is what you give
Here and now
Love is a God who forgives

Dracula:
Love isn't what you think it is
Love is the son of Hell
It's made of suffering
And you have never suffered.

Love isn't what you think it is

Johnathan
Love isn't what you believe it is.

Duet:
Choose Elhemina -
it's Johnathan or Dracula

The only thing I beg of you
Turn away from him
Don't go near him
You will regret it
Mina come back to me

Johnathan:
Love isn't what you say it is

Dracula:
Love is the brother of torment.

Johnathan:
You are too cruel to love

Dracula
Love isn't what you think it is

Johnathan:
You have betrayed us all

Dracula:
Its heart burns so bright

Johnathan:
Even your shadow has deserted you.

Dracula:
Beside it, Hell is cold

Johnathan:
Love isn't what you say it is

Dracula:
Love isn't what you think it is.

Johnathan:
Love is what you give

Dracula:
Love is the son of Hell

Johnathan:
Here and now

Dracula:
It's made of suffering

Johnathan:
Love is a god who forgives

Dracula:
And you have never suffered

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2: 15 Prélude Règne - Prelude to Reign [Ukrainian]
------------------------------------------------------------------

Dracula::
Пізнав любов, пізнав любов, пізнай же й смерть!

Ельміна! Ельміна! Я люблю тебе навіки! Я люблю тебе навіки, моя Ельміна! Любов моя! Любов моя!

Mina: Хто з любов'ю не знається, Той горя не знає.

Johnathan: Міна!


Dracula:
You've known love! You've known love. Now you will know death!

Elhemina! Elhemina! I love you forever! I love you forever, my Elhemina! My Love! My love!

Mina: (sings) - He who does not know love, does not know grief....

Johnathan: Mina!


--------------------------------------------------------
2:16 : Règne
-------------------------------------------------------
[Note: 'ma souveraine' could be translated as 'my queen', but I chose not to change it as sovereign still works and is gender neutral in English.
'Mon soleil dechire'- literally 'my burning/torn sun' - used older word 'riven' : torn asunder.
Thanks to 'Snezhinka' for correcting the Ukrainian and adding to the text.

Dracula :
Quand je ne serai plus
Qu’une étrange légende
Un demi-dieu vaincu
Dans son château de cendre

Règne

Règne sur la beauté
De toutes choses humaines
Devient la vérité
De celui que tu aimes

Règne

Ramène la tendresse
Dans l’âme des humains
Mon amour je te laisse
La Terre entre les mains

Règne mon soleil déchiré
Ma princesse bien aimée
Avant que tout s’éteigne
Ma souveraine

Règne sur l’or du temps
Les collines et les plaines
Protégé l’océan
Ou dorment les sirènes

Règne

Protégé le futur
Épargne-nous la haine
Apaise les blessures
De ce siècle qui saigne

Règne mon soleil déchiré
Ma princesse bien aimée
Avant que tout s’éteigne
Ma souveraine

Règne mon soleil déchiré
Ma princesse bien aimée
Que les volcans te craignent
Ma souveraine

Sur l’orchestre du temps
Sur les ongles du vent
Protégé le printemps
De l’hiver qui l’attend

Règne sur l’au-delà
Et règne sur ma peine
O règne encore sur moi
Ma princesse ma souveraine

Règne

Quand je ne serai plus
Qu’une étrange légende
Un demi-dieu vaincu
Dans son château de cendre

Que le diable aura dit
C’est lui que j’ai maudit

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2:16: Reign
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dracula:
When I am nothing but /When I become nothing more than
a strange legend
A vanquished demi-god /Only a vanquished demi-god
In his castle of ash

Reign

Reign upon the beauty
Of all things human
Become the truth
For the one you love

Reign

Bring back the compassion /tenderness
In the souls of Mankind
My love, I bequeath to you
The Earth between these hands

Reign my riven sun,
My princess, my only love,
Before everything is snuffed out /Before everything fades away
My sovereign

Reign on the gold of time
Upon the hills and the plains
Protect the ocean
Where the sirens sleep

Reign

Protect the future
Keep us from hatred
Soothe the wounds
Of this bloody century / of this bleeding century

Reign my riven sun,
My princess, my only love
Before everything is snuffed out /Before everything fades away
My sovereign

Reign my riven sun,
My princess, my only love
Let the volcanoes fear you
My sovereign

Upon the sands of time
Upon the nails of the wind
Protect the Spring
From the Winter which awaits it

Reign upon the beyond
And reign upon my sorrow
Oh reign still upon me
My princess, my sovereign

Reign

When I am nothing but
a strange legend
a vanquished demi-god
In his castle of ash

Then the devil will declare -
It is he whom I cursed

Reign

-------------------------------------------------------------------
1:9 5 siècles - Five Centuries
------------------------------------------------------------------
Grand Lui:
Cinq siècles viennent de passer. La contrée de Vallachia n’a pas beaucoup changé malgré son air moderne. Dracula jura de retrouver son âme-soeur mais sa croisade ne fait que des victimes. Des citoyens qui disparaissent, des cadavres qui se réveillent, un virus qui se transmet par morsure. La tragédie a réuni cinq personnages: une militante, un journaliste, son photographe, l’homme de science Van Helsing et sa fille Lucy.

Narrator:
Five centuries have just passed. The region of Wallachia did not change much in spite of its modern air. All the while Dracula sought his soul mate, but his crusade only created victims. Citizens disappeared, the dead rose again - a virus transmitted by bite. As a consequence, the tragedy brought together five characters:
an activist, a journalist, his photographer, a man of science - Van Helsing, and his daughter, Lucy.

-------------------------------------
1:10 : Ce Que Je Vois
--------------------------------------
Jonathan:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Je me dois de l'écrire
Et de vous prévenir
Le pire est avenir

Renfield:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Ressemble à un naufrage
Un immense carnage
En voici les images

Mina:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Est un peuple orphelin
Qui cherche son chemin
La tête entre les mains

Lucy:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Me remplit de chagrin
Partout des hommes ont faim
Leur douleur est sans fin

Tous:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Ce que j'entends autour de moi
Me fait du mal a chaque pas
Tout n'est que signe du malheur

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Ce que j'entends autour de moi
Me fait du mal a chaque pas
Comment retrouver le bonheur

Malheur - douleur - malheur - horreur - malheur

Lucy:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Qui donc en a pitié
La douleur d'exister
Comment la raconter

Van Helsing:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Est un grand bateau ivre
Qui brûlent tous nos livres
Que Dieu nous en délivre

Renfield:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Est un peuple orphelin
Qui cherche son chemin
La tête entre les mains

Van Helsing:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Me remplit de chagrin
Partout des hommes ont faim
Leur douleur est sans fin

Tous:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Ce que j'entends autour de moi
Me fait du mal a chaque pas
Tout n'est que signe du malheur

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Ce que j'entends autour de moi
Me fait du mal a chaque pas
Comment retrouver le bonheur

Mina:

Malheur

Renfield:

Douleur

Lucy:

Malheur

Van-Helsing:

Horreur

Tous:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois

Jonathan:

Est un arc-en-ciel sans le bleu

Tous:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois

Renfield:

En train de nous crever les yeux

Tous:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois

Mina:

O comment retrouver la foi

Tous:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois

Van Helsing:

De dire il était une fois

Tous:

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois

Lucy:

La Terre peuplée de gens heureux

Tous:

Malheur - douleur - malheur - horreur - malheur

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Ce que j'entends autour de moi
Me fait du mal a chaque pas
Tout n'est que signe du malheur

Ce que j'ai vu ce que je vois
Ce que j'entends autour de moi
Me fait du mal a chaque pas
Comment retrouver le bonheur

Tout n'est que signe du malheur
Comment retrouver le bonheur

Tout n'est que signe du malheur
Comment retrouver le bonheur


----------------------------------
1: 10 : What I Saw
----------------------------------
Note: 'j'entends' 'I hear' - I changed it to 'I see', as both mean the same thing: i.e. what I perceive/understand.


Johnathan:
What I saw and what I now see
I must write it /I owe it to myself to write
To warn you
The worst is yet to come

Renfield:
What I saw and what I now see
Looks like a shipwreck,
An immense carnage
Here are the images

Mina:
What I saw and what I now see
Abandoned people
Who look for a way
With their heads in their hands

Lucy:
What I saw and what I now see
Fills me with sorrow
For all men who hunger
Their pain has no end.

All:
What I saw and what I now see
What I see around me
Pains me at every step
All about only signs of misfortune

What I saw and what I now see
What I see round me
Pains me at every step
How to find happiness again

Misfortune - Pain - Misfortune - Horror

Lucy:
What I saw and what I now see
Who would not grieve
That such pain exists
Oh how to tell it

Van Helsing:
What I saw and what I now see,
A huge boat heaving. [lit: a large drunk boat]
Burning all the books,
God deliver us! /God help us!

Renfield:
What I saw and what I now see
Abandoned people
Who look for a way
With their heads in their hands

Van Helsing:
What I saw and what I now see
Fills me with sorrow
For all men who hunger
Their pain has no end.

All:
What I saw and what I now see
What I see around me
Pains me with every step
All about only signs of misfortune

What I saw and what I now see
What I see round me
Pains me with every step
How to find happiness again

Mina:
Misfortune

Renfield:
Pain.

Lucy:
Misfortune

Van Helsing:
Horror

All:
What I saw and what I now see

Johnathan:
A rainbow without sky ('le bleu' figurative for sky)

All:
What I saw and what I now see

Renfield:
Blinding our eyes

All:
What I saw and what I now see

Mina:
Oh how to find faith (again)

All
What I saw and what I now see

Van Helsing:
To say once upon a time -

All
What I saw and what I now see

Lucy:
An Earth filled with happy people

All:
Misfortune - pain - misfortune - horror - misfortune

All:
What I saw and what I now see
What I see around me
Pains me at every step,
All about only signs of misfortune

What I saw and what I now see
What I see around me
Pains me at every step
How to find happiness again

All about only signs of misfortune
How to find happiness again

All about only signs of misfortune
How to find happiness again

Here's full running order from the show: [* translated by me]
Note: In modern Romanian 'Dracul' means 'The Devil', but can have a duel meaning as in the reign of the real Vlad Tzepes - (1448-1476), 'Draculea' was a title, 'Son of the Dragon' denoting membership of Medieval The Order of the Dragon. 'Tzepez' means 'impailer' - the name given to him by his enemies signifying their possible fate at his hands. Thus, Vlad Tzepes, a fierce warrior prince, is in part the inspiration for this reinterpretation.

ACTEI I
1. Ouverture - Overture* #57
2. Narration (historique) - the story of Vlad Tzepes* #57
3. Vlad Tzepes - Song: Vlad Tzepes* (Ukrainian)[Elhemina & Dracula] #57
4. Narration - Narration (the Secret)#57
5. Cruelle et Tendre Mina - Song: Cruel & Tender Mina* [Elhemina & Dracula] #1
6. Villageois - Villager* #54
7. La Cage - The Cage* #54
8. Entre l'Amour et la Mort - Song: Between Love and Death* [Dracula] #2
9. Narration (5 siècles) - Narration (5 Centuries...)* #10
10. Ce Que Je Vois - Song: What I Saw* [Ensemble] #10
11. Aussi Loin Que Je Sois - Song: No Matter How Far [Johanathan & Mina] #81
12 Dialogue Van Helsing & Lucy - Dialogue between Van Helsing & Lucy #14
13. Droit de savoir Song: The Right to Know * [Lucy] #14
14. Narration (la lettre) - Narration - the letter #29
15. Un Bateau qui Sombre - Song: A Sinking Ship* [Renfield] #29
16. Dialogue Renfield & Jonathan #85
17. Dialogue Dracula, Jonathan & Renfield #85
18. Nous Sommes Ce Que Nous Sommes - Song: We Are What We Are* [Ens] #7
19. Avance - Song: Advance *[The Vampiresess] #18
20. Mina - Song: Mina* [Johnathan] #4
21. L'Armée des Ombres - Song: An Army of Shadows/Shades* [Ensemble] #5
22. Dialogue pacte - Dracula & Renfield - Dialogue the Deal - Dracula & Renfield #5
23. Étrange étranger - Song: Strange Foreigner* (lit: Strange Stranger) [Lucy & Dracula] #6
24. Pourquoi - Song*: Why [Van Helsing] #65
25. Qui Sera la Prochaine - Song: Who Will be Next?* [Ensemble] #68


ACTE II
1. Narration #3
2. Urgence - Song: Urgency/Crisis* [Mina] #3
3. Ad Vitam Eternam- Song: For All Time* - [Johnathan] #79
4. Dialogue Mina, Renfield & Jonathan #79
5. Dialogue Dracula & Renfield #37
6. Enfin plus rien - Song: At Last, Oblivion* [Renfield & Dracula] #37
7. Je suis - Song: I am (aka The Temple of Satan) [Dracula] #92
8. Mystérieux personnage - Song: Mysterious Personage* [Mina/Dracula] #45
9. La signature - The Signature* #59
10. Dialogue Jonathan & Van Helsing #60
11. Narration #60
12. L'Affrontement * - The Confrontation [Dracula & Van Helsing] #41
13. Repos - Song: Rest* [Lucy] #78
14. L'Amour aux Deux Visages - Song: Between Love & Death: Two Faced Love* #8[Johnathan. Lucy & Dracula] #8
15. Prélude Règne - Prelude to Reign [Ukrainian] #9
16. Règne - Song: Reign* [Dracula] #9

Lyrics: Roger Tabra Music: Simon Leclere
Concept: Bruno Pelletier & Richard Ouzounian.
Artistic Direction: Bruno Pelletier.

The Original Cast:
Bruno Pelletier as Dracula/Vlad Tzepes
Andree Watters as Elhemina/Mina
Sylvain Cossette as Jonathan
Gabrielle Destroismaisons as Lucy
Daniel Boucher as Renfield
Pierre Flynn as Van Helsing
The Vampiressess Brigitte Machand, Elyzabeth Diaga, and Rita Tabbakh
Narrator: Louis Gagne
Also with: Julie Dassylva, Martin Giroux, and Claude Pineault

English Trans: ©LdeF 'bluejacket' 2010-2011 additions by 'Snezhinka'
# gives the post number

For 6 & a half years I had a dear friend who was born, raised, & lived her whole life in Montreal Quebec Canada, & she was of French decent, & French was her first language, she learned English in school. After 6 & a half years of being dear friends (read into that, that I loved her romantically during that time) I went to Montreal this past February to be with her for Valentine's Day (Things sadly did not work out, & we are no longer on speaking terms, not of my choice, I wish we still was, it was of her choice). Dracula Entre L'Amour Et La Mort was one of her favorite musical, & thusly I out of love for her am taking great care in my English translation of it's lyrics.

I am not saying that my lyrics are better then yours, simply that they are a different interpretation/translation that people can also choose alternatively if they wish to. So here is my translation of the above song.

What I See
Sung by : Jonathan, Renfield, Mina, Lucy, Van Helsing

Original Show Title: Dracula: Entre L'amour Et la Mort
Translated Show Title: Dracula: Between Love And Death
Original Language: French
Translated Language: English
Genre: Grusical
Book: Richard Ouzounian
Lyrics: Roger Tabra
Music: Simon Leclerc
Translator: Jack Danya Kemplin
Year: 2006


Lyrics:

Johnathan:
What I saw, what I see
I must write down here
To warn unto you
The worst is yet to come

Renfield:
What I saw, what I see
Resembles a shipwreck
An immense carnage
Here is the image

Mina:
What I saw, what I see
Is an orphan people
Who seek their way
Their heads in their hands

Lucy:
What I saw, what I see
Filled me of chagrin
Everywhere there is famine
The pain is without end

All:
What I saw, what I see
What I hear around me
Makes me hurt with every step
Everything's a sign of misfortune

What I saw, what I see
What I hear around me
Makes me hurt with every step
How to find happiness

Misfortune, Pain, Misfortune, Horror, Misfortune

Lucy:
What I saw, what I see
Who shall give us pity
The pain of existence
How to tell it

Van Helsing:
What I saw, what I see
Is a great drunken ship
Burning all our books
May God deliver us

Renfield:
What I saw, what I see
Is an orphan people
Who seek their way
Their heads in their hands

Van Helsing:
What I saw, what I see
Filled me of chagrin
Everywhere there is famine
The pain is without end

All:
What I saw, what I see
What I hear around me
Makes me hurt with every step
Everything's a sign of misfortune

What I saw, what I see
What I hear around me
Makes me hurt with every step
How to find happiness

Mina:
Misfortune

Renfield:
Pain.

Lucy:
Misfortune

Van Helsing:
Horror

All:
What I saw, what I see

Johnathan:
Is a rainbow without blue

All:
What I saw, what I see

Renfield:
Bursts my eyes completely through

All:
What I saw, what I see

Mina:
O how to find the faith

All:
What I saw, what I see

Van Helsing:
To say it once was

All:
What I saw, what I see

Lucy:
A land filled with happiness

All:
Misfortune, Pain, Misfortune, Horror, Misfortune

What I saw, what I see
What I hear around me
Makes me hurt with every step
Everything's a sign of misfortune

What I saw, what I see
What I hear around me
Makes me hurt with every step
How to find happiness

Everything's a sign of misfortune

How to find happiness

Vive la differance!
I think the differences are fascinating. (Sorry things didn't work out...)

I know what I've posted is far from polished -
My motivation here was to post a fair version in English so that
those with no French could get more out of the musical.

For me, translation of lyrics in particular, is a balance between, meaning,
the music and the rhythms of language, (which for me is a kind of music).
The art comes in knowing what alternatives are appropriate to serve the whole,
and skill is in finding a way to change the minimum to serve the poetry
of the original, the music - (and in the case of musical theatre,
the characters and the drama too.)

Translation at it's best is an art and a skill seamelessly combined;
and the best translations are those where the effort is so well hidden, it doesn't
seem translated at all. I'm far off that, but I'm working on it and enjoying
the challenge immensely!

--------------------------------------------------------------
1:12: Dialogue Van-Helsing et Lucy
---------------------------------------------------------------
Van Helsing:
N’y va pas, Lucy, c’est dangereux.
Lucy: pourquoi?
Van Helsing: Toi aussi, toi aussi tu veux refaire le monde.
Lucy: Oui. Oui. Et vous qu'’avez-vous changé? Toujours seul dans votre quête!
Van Helsing: Je ne suis pas seul. Nous ne sommes pas seuls. Dieu est avec nous.
Lucy: Dieu?!
Van Helsing: A quoi bon? A quoi bon discuter?

1:12:
Van Helsing: Don't go there Lucy, it's dangerous
Lucy: Why?
Van Helsing: You too. So, you want to change the world too?
Lucy: Yes. Yes. And you, what have you ever changed? Always alone in your quest!
Van Helsing: I am not alone. We are not alone. God is with us.
Lucy: God!?
Van Helsing: What's the use. What's the point of discussing it..

---------------------------------------------------------
1:13. Droit De Savoir -(Lucy & Van Helsing)
--------------------------------------------------------

Lucy:
Mon père je vous en prie répondez-moi
Pourquoi ne me laissez-vous pas
Vivre ma vie comme je l'entends
Ici est maintenant
Je ne suis plus une petite fille
Qui ne connaît rien de la vie
Je sais les horreurs de la guerre
Et de la misère
Mon père de quels dangers me parlez-vous
Il y en a tant autour de nous
Je ne veux pas être comme ceux
Qui portent un bandeau sur les yeux

J'ai le droit de voir
Le droit de savoir

J'ai le droit de voir
Le droit de savoir
Le nom de chaque rue
Que vous avez connu

J'ai le droit de voir
Le rouge et le noir
Le meilleur et le pire
J'ai le droit de choisir

Je suis de liberté
a jamais libérée
Laissez-moi partir
Je veux découvrir
L'espace et le temps
Mon siècle m'attend
J'ai vingt ans

Van Helsing:
Ma fille le monde n'est pas ce que tu vois
La vie est un oiseau de proie

Lucy:
Mon père que voulez-vous me dire
Que cherchez-vous a m'interdire

Je veux ouvrir les fenêtres
De mon âme et tout combattre
Vivre ma vie comme je l'entends
Des maintenant

Choisir l'église que je veux
Laissez-moi brûler de mon feu

Van Helsing:
Ma fille pourquoi me parles-tu ainsi
N'aimes-tu pas ce que je suis

Lucy:
Mon père je vous aime comme vous été
Mais je n'en ferai qu'à ma tête

Voyez la nuit ouvre ses portes
Je dois marcher vers elle
Et mémé si c'est fou qu'importe
J'ai le droit d'espérer le ciel

---------------------------------------------------
1:13 The Right to Know
---------------------------------------------------
Note: 'rouge et noir' is a gambling card game - where winning and loosing depends on the turn of a card - when Lucy refers to the Black and the Red she may be referring to fate & life - thus in English the line might be 'game-of-life'.

Lucy:
Father, won't you please explain to me
Why it is you do not let me
Live my life as I want to
Here and now
I am not your little girl
Who knows nothing of life -
I know the horrors of the war
And of misery.

Father you speak to me of the dangers
There are so many around us
I do not want to be like those
who are blindfolded by their fear -

I have the right to see
the right to know

I have the right to see
the right to know
the name of each street
That you knew

I have the right to see
the game of life [lit; red & the black]
the best and the worst
I have the right to choose

Freedom is mine to have,
And still I am not free
So let me go
I want to discover
space and time
My life is ahead
I am only twenty.

Van Helsing:
Daughter the world is not what you see
life is a savage bird of prey [lit: life is a bird of prey]

Lucy:
Father what do you want to tell me -
What do you want to forbid me? (from doing - i.e. what are you protecting me from?)

I want to open the windows
Of my soul - embrace everything
To live my life as I wish
Here and now

To choose the church I want
Let me burn with my own fire

Van Helsing:
My daughter why do you speak to me this way
perhaps do you not love me anymore?

Lucy:
Father I love you as you are
But my heart will not rule my head.

The night opens it's doors
I must go towards it
And even if it's mad what matters is
I have the right to hope for heaven

Are you going to post any more Blue_Jacket? I enjoy reading your translations, seeing them helps me refine my translations, & then as you see I share mine with you whenever I feel good enough about mine to share & then we can both help refine each other's in a way . So please keep posting

Originally Posted by holyguyver

Are you going to post any more Blue_Jacket? I enjoy reading your translations, seeing them helps me refine my translations, & then as you see I share mine with you whenever I feel good enough about mine to share & then we can both help refine each other's in a way . So please keep posting

Hi,

I'm glad you enjoy them - I should be putting a few more up soon - watch this space!

I have some wonderful news, I have posted a youtube video that I made with hardcoded English subtitles of my translation of What I Saw What I See / Ce Que Je Vois http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi4wV0bXJ_s

It is a slightly improved version of what I had posted above, I hope everyone likes it

---------------------------------------
1:19 Avance
---------------------------------------
Notes:

'Avance' can mean 'advance' - to go forward, but it can also mean advances ie seduction. In this song the word carries both meanings at the same time, as before being interrupted by Dracula, the three Vampireseses attempt to seduce Johnathan to enter their dark and seductive existence.

Asanbosam is a West African vampire (particularly Ghana) Jaracara - Brazilian vampire. Penanggalan - vampire of Malay Peninsula. Kali Siva - Kali Hindu goddess, Shiva, her consort.
The association Kali and her husband Shiva with vampires, is I think, only done for the purpose of verse. While in Kali's most famous pose as Daksinakali, she is shown as drunk on the blood of her enemies, for many Hindus as the goddess of Time and destruction/transformation, she is also the mother of the Universe. While she is often seen as bloody and violent, she is the slayer of demons rather than a demonic figure herself.
* Charmes - charms/ delights not just the promise sexual fulfillment, but euphemism for their physical charms/erotica. Similar to saying 'Cover your nakedness'.

Vampiresses:
Avance Avance Avance

Vers celles dont les bouches
On soif de ta semence
Avance avance et touche
Le corps des trois déesses
À genoux devant toi
Imagine ton s-xe
Dans nous trois à la fois

Asambosam Jaracara
Penanggalen Kali Siva
Que ton sabre se dresse
Et qu'il tranche le fruit
Du corps des trois déesses
Au soleil de minuit

Dénude ton corps
Découvre la puissance
De la bouche qui mord
Dans le fruit défendu
Offre ton âme au Maître
Entre dans l'inconnu
Viens te reconnaître

Asanbosam Jaracara
Penanggalan Kali Siva
Les femmes sont offertes
Leurs lèvres sont ouvertes
Succombe au charme des voix
Des sirènes de Vetala

Cède à la tentation
Qui brûle dans tes veines
Déchire la prison
De ta peau qui te gène
Rivières de jouissance
Et rivières de sang
Célébrez la naissance
De l'amant tout puissant

Asanbosam Jaracara
Penanggalan Kali Siva
Que ton sabre se dresse
Et qu'il tranche le fruit
Du corps des trois déesses
Au soleil de minuit

Avance
Avance
Avance

Asanbosam Jaracara
Penanggalan Kali Siva

Asanbosam Jaracara
Penanggalan Kali Siva

Asanbosam Jaracara
Penanggalan Kali Siva
Les femmes sont offertes
Leurs lèvres sont ouvertes
Succombe au charme des voix
Des sirènes de Vetala

Abandonne ton âme
Renie ton existence
Et nous serons ta femme

Abandonne ton âme
Renie ton existence
Et nous serons ta femme

Dracula: Arrière arrière! Recouvrez vos charmes! Recouvrez vos seins Retournez en enfer. Cet homme m'appartient…

----------------------------------------------
1:19 Advance/Come (seduction)
-----------------------------------------------

Vampiresses:
Advance Advance Advance

Towards those who's mouths
Are thirsty of your seed
Advance advance and touch
The body of three goddesses
on their knees in front of you
Imagine your sex
In us three at the same time

Asambosam Jaracara
Penanggalen Kali Siva
That your sword stands
And that it [he] cuts the fruit
Of the body of three goddesses
Of the midnight sun (or sun at midnight)

Strip your body naked
Discover the power
Of the mouth which bites
Into the forbidden fruit
Give your soul to the Master
Enter the unknown
Come to know yourself

Asanbosam Jaracara
Penanggalan Kali Siva
The women are given
Their lips are open
Succumb to the charm of the voices
Of the Sirens of Vetala

Give in to the temptation
Which burns in your veins
Tear the prison
Of your skin to the bone / Of your skin that hinders you
Let rivers of semen
And rivers of blood
Celebrate the birth
Of the all-powerful lover

Asanbosam Jaracara
Penanggalan Kali Siva
That your sword stands
And that it cuts the fruit
Of the body of three goddesses
In the sun at midnight (or midnight-sun)

Advance
Advance
Advance

Asanbosam Jaracara
Penanggalan Kali Siva

Asambosam Jaracara
Penanggalen Kali Siva

Asanbosam Jaracara
Penanggalan Kali Siva
The women are given
Their lips are open
Succumb to the charm of the voices
Of the Sirens of Vetala

Abandon your soul
Renounce your existence
And we will be your wife

Abandon your soul
Renounce your existence
And we will be your wife


Dracula: Back! Back! Withdraw your spells! Cover your delights*. Return to Hell. This man belongs to me!

that what i called a great work ... thanks u've been waiting for these lyrics for a very long time ... if U PLZ ... do you have any subtitle or a document for the rest of the lyrics ... in French , Engish or Arabic I need it coz I don't have a subtitle in the DVD PLZ PLZ PLZ ... and a very Big thank for U

SyrianRani, as you can see in my video I have created a subtitle file which contains that one song, as for the other songs & lines in it, I have not created a subtitle file with those yet because I am still working on my translation, but Bluejacket & I have both translated out many of the songs, & Bluejacket of course is posting his/her (not sure of Bluejacket's gender, never asked) lyrics here, & I plan on doing that once I feel that my lyrics are of a quality worth posting, & once I have done that I do plan on adding the lyrics to my sub file, & so eventually I may have a sub file. You, Bluejacket & anyone is free to use my lyrics if you guys create a sub file (please give me a copy of that file too if you do ) & I defanitly take Blejacket's lyrics into consideration whenever I am doing up mine, so we are all helping out each other .

I have done my own lyrics for Cruel & Tender Mina, Reign, & Between The Love & The Death, but I feel that they are not finished yet.

The next one I will finish is Cruel & Tender Mina. Here is some lines from my lyrics for that:

The sky opened up & it gave down onto me,
She who I would live for,
& who would mean everything to me.
For God has rewarded,
The Worrier for the war,
& made her finally love Dracula,
& has placed her in my bed.

(& later)

Love of my life,
I devote myself,
To you entirely,
Within my prayers,
& I pray that,
God may forgive us,
For taking our love,
& Casting it in the fire.

I know they are not exactly what the French is saying, but I like them & I think they get the basic idea across