Le chant des druides [English translation]

It was a time well before our era, the builders of megaliths

were on the earth. Brilliant civilizations which didn’t leave

writing, but monuments and mysterious carvings.

Manau takes the mike and with the help of hip hop, recounts the

stories and myths of this people. It happens sometimes that I dream of all that. Of the Bronze Age, of iron and even of Alesia. But I

ask myself why, what happens sometimes, when the wind of the sea rises and enters the underbrush, you can hear the stories

of kings accompanied by chants and sweet voices. It’s the

wind of the sea that gently transports them, the stories, the

tales of the ancient epoch. It’s like a music which

would stay pure and clear. I could hear the chant of the druids.

(Refrain)

I hear that which guides me

The chant of the druids

My flow is its fluid

The chant of the druids

So clear and so bright

Is the chant of the druids

But the chant of the druids acts like such a fluid, learn to listen to it, it

will serve as your guide, to tell you the tales and the stories

of chivalry, of great battles, of monsters, and of towers of

magic, it’s the Celtic soul, historic, ancient. The centuries have passed, but it stays the same, like at the great period of the megalithic beginning. The dolmens are there and they are authentic. I know that you will have a hard time believing these stories, that you will only be able to hear the night late in the evening. Don’t try to struggle with dark thoughts. Let yourself glide, to light such a lighthouse. It’s like a shadow that would leave from a carpet of light, a revelation, something fleeting that will sink into you, a music that’s almost liquid. Come to hear the chant of the druids.

(Refrain)

But the chant of the druids is my reality. It serves as a guide, you have guessed it. For, to calmly put the words on a piece of

paper the inspiration of Manau, that which helps to meditate, that’s why, I don’t want to ask myself questions. Is it that all these voices come from my imagination? In fact, I accept this situation. The chant of the druids, fruit of my inspiration, because I love to plunge my mind often in the past and I don't ask myself where the truth is. I continue to dream, I’m not the last to be able to hear all these sacred chants. And even if life is opposed to the character of these things, I can’t find the reason and will continue my prose. So believe me for that, I want to stay candid and to be able to hear, all my life, the chant of the druids.

(Refrain)

• Artist:Manau
• Album:Panique Celtique