Tit Nor [English translation]

I'm gone, I were all youth

Make a living and learn a job

To my parents, I've made the promise

to come back as soon as rich

I saw from afar my village fading

Noon sounding, I didn't hear it

Cause I're walking towards mirages

which were grewing to each of my steps

Cause I're walking towards mirages

which were grewing to each of my steps

Found myself walking from town to town

Very few friends, lots of companions

Friendship is easy when the glass is full

You're alone when you see the bottom

Do ya come from ? How is it that ya're called ?

Norbert ! One beer, Armand, strong alcohol for me

Me i'm washing windows, me the dishes

My companions call me "Littl' Nor"

Me i'm washing windows, me the dishes

My companions call me "Littl' Nor"

All this jobs which are sons of misery

I made it and I left it

You're unemployed when you refuse to do them

When you lose him, you are... as you are.

It's not at the end of brooms ans shovels

that the wealthy come most of the time

The bigs which have it sleep not far of it

Other are just autumn leaves in the wind

The bigs which have it sleep not far of it

Other are just autumn leaves in the wind

Oh if I were a naive lover

I'd took a wife and I'd have children,

a house, a car, as those which are coming

I'll be alone but alone less... lonely

But too much money make the love doubtfully

and not enough away it forever

I spent my existance

Before to win the heart of my beloved

I spent my existance

Before to win the heart of my beloved

I spent three days on a trip

To find back parents and friends

For my parents it's at the end of the village

In the graveyard where death put them

But my ear and my sight are surprised

We see nobody and all seem souless

A lost dog goes out of the church

And I understood : my village became a ghost town

A lost dog goes out of the church

And I understood : my village became a ghost town

I went up to inform myself at Narcisse

Who has refused to move from the 5th block

Should closing, in the name of the law

Of the law and of the gouvernements

Did we have to work on our land

Remove the strains and pounding gravels

To discovering at the notary

That at the end of our lives we aren't even at home

To discovering at the notary

That at the end of our lives we aren't even at home

I've thought about stay here

Spend the night sleeping on the stairs

Save the church before it collapses

And repair the best of the houses

I'll became my own tenant

I'll beacome my own doctor

Verger, priest, shopkeeper and mayor

My own friend and my own neighbour

Verger, priest, shopkeeper and mayor

My own friend and my own neighbour

As in jail around the world

I'll leave as I'd came

I don't wait that someone answers me

despair is never welcome

For my kinds tormanted by journeys

My sad fate serve them as a lesson

Don't leave your village

If you aren't well educated

Don't leave your village

If you aren't well educated

Should have to go, but all youth anymore

Make a living, any job

Me we who had made in time promises

Of great come-back as soon as rich

I see often appear a village

I hear noon even when it don't sound

walking always towards mirages

which were evaporating to each of my steps

walking always towards mirages

which were evaporating to each of my steps

• Artist:Gilles Vigneault