Aurélie Leclerc est une artiste nomade qui se réinvente au fil de ses aventures et qui continue de faire évoluer son art en marchant vers de nouvelles destinations. Elle a débuté son pèlerinage en s’intéressant au théâtre, puis à la musique pop pour se tourner ensuite vers la poésie et le slam.
Aurélie Leclerc is a nomadic artist who reinvents herself through her adventures and continues to evolve by seeking new destinations. She began her pilgrimage with theater, then pop music, before embracing poetry and slam.
Translated piece:
Our tickers pitter and patter but we gotta take the mic for you
Poison people and politics always on the hunt for you
I’m a captive and a hostage too, I feel all the feels
Dear Planet, please forgive our poison pipelines and our feet in your fields
You gave us all you got and then you gave us even more,
Flourishing forests, animals, vegetables, minerals galore
But now it’s no big deal to smother you, torture you, treat you like trash
We don’t even pretend to care about you, all that matters is cash
And it goes it on and on and it never slows down
In this sea of destruction we just leave you to drown
And even though we know that you’re on your last breath
Skeptics of disaster still wanna race you to the death
Our tickers pitter and patter but we gotta take the mic for you
Poison people and politics always on the hunt for you
I’m a captive and a hostage too, I feel all the feels
Dear Planet, please forgive our poison pipelines and our feet in your fields
Yeah, we can hear those sirens blaring their warning
Through the bedlam, the carnage, the death and the mourning
Through the flooding, the storming, the sickness, disease
When it comes to cash we just can’t be appeased
And yet somehow you believe that the sun will still rise
And yet sometimes you can even see the tears in my eyes
And soon you will see we care just about ourselves
History for humans is just about themselves
With no water to drink we’ll have to forget evolution
Oceans filling up with organic fair trade pollution
Better quench the thirst of those thousands of beef cattle
Money talks, money rules, money wins the money battle
Might have to replace our JE ME SOUVIENS licence plate
Saying we remember don’t mean nothin’ when it’s far too late
Might have to replace it with DO SOMETHING AND DO IT FAST
If we don’t save the Earth from bleeding out, she ain’t gonna last
When people ask me if I wanna have kids
I say sure I do but not on a planet on the skids
With air getting hotter and oceans overflowing
My eco-anxiety is just growing and growing and growing
So Planet Earth, I get it, go crazy, fuck it, go off
I get it, we get it, things have been pretty rough
We know you’re the victim and the fault is all ours
But don’t forget that me I won’t stop fighting the power
Our tickers pitter and patter but we gotta take the mic for you
So people and politics will start lookin’ out for you
I’m a captive and a hostage too, I feel all the feels
For real, it’s a dead end for us and a dead end for us you too
Dear Planet, please forgive our poison pipelines and our feet in your fields
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* Translator: Simon Brown