the ones we hurt
Une mélodie déjà bien incrustée dans ma mémoire (c'était qui qui avait une chanson avec ce même air) revient titiller ma mémoire dans la voiture, sur le voyage du retour entre l'école et la maison. Et ces paroles qui résonnent : "Tell me why are we-eee, so-ooo blind to see-eee, that the ones we-ee hurt, are you and me-eee !"
Gangsta's Paradise, de Coolio. Je n'avais jamais vraiment fait attention aux paroles jusque là, et pourtant je l'ai entendue cette chanson. Notamment dans ce film où Michelle Pfeifer joue le rôle d'une prof d'anglais dans une école de "caïds" comme on dirait ici. (Non, non, je ne suis pas parano, la seule similitude avec moi, c'est que je suis prof d'anglais.)
Alors bon, je recherche la chanson (radioblog), la vidéo (youtube), les paroles (azlyrics ou autre), et quelques infos supplémentaires (wikipedia), sur les chanteurs, les chansons, et le film, et je vous ressert le tout bien emballé.
1. la mélodie vient d'une chanson de Stevie Wonder, Pastime Paradise
by COOLIO featuring L.V.4. Dans la vidéo, on voit des images du film.
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left
coz I've been blastin and laughin so long, that
even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
but I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of
you better watch how you're talking, and where you're walking
or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
I really hate to trip but i gotta, loc
As I Grow I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
on my knees in the night, saying prayers in the streetlight
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
They got the situation, they got me facin'
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the stripes
so I gotta be down with the hood team
too much television watching got me chasing dreams
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger
and my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool
death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24
the way things are going I don't know
Chorus:
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the ones we hurt, are you and me
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
Power and the money, money and the power
minute after minute, hour after hour
everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
what's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's kickin'
they say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me
if they can't understand it, how can they reach me
I guess they can't, I guess they won't
I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
(fade out)
4. Le film, c'est "Dangerous Mind" (suivez le lien pour l'article dans Wikipedia).Permettez-moi de vous présenter un extrait, où il est question de choix de vie, et de victimes ou pas victimes dans la classe.
La transcription du dialogue qui suit est empruntée au site dont je vous ai déjà parlé (Drew's script-o-rama). J'ai juste retravaillé la disposition du texte.
Dialogue :
Because somebody tells me that death's comin' 'round"
- Okay, this is another Dylan poem. Now, is that a code, or does that just mean what it says?
"And I will not carry myself
down to die
When I go to my grave
My head will be high"
"My head will be high." What does that mean? Anybody. Nobody? ls there something I should know ?
- Yeah. I'll tell you. You ratted on Raul, Gusmaro and Emilio.
- Yeah. You got Emilio put into detention.
- lt wasn't none of your business, chismosa.
- And you got Raul and Gusmaro suspended. Now they're gonna get their fuckin' asses kicked. And you got Emilio.
- Hey, I didn't rat on anybody.
- Wasn't none of your business anyway, you chismosa.
- Bullshit. Let this.. Told you she was full of shit.
- Snitches get stitches, bitch.
- Do you wanna talk about this?
- On you, shit. Whatever floats your boat, teach.
- We don't have no choices in this room.
- Well, if you all feel that strongly about it, leave the room.
- What?
- Hey, listen. Nobody's forcing you to be here. You have a choice. You can stay, or you can leave.
- Lady, why are you playin' this game? We don't have a choice.
- You don't have a choice? You don't have a choice on whether or not you're here?
- No. lf we leave, we don't get to graduate. lf we stay, we gotta put up with you.
- Well, that's a choice, isn't it?
You have a choice. You either don't graduate or you have to put up with me.
lt may not be a choice you like, but it is a choice.
- Man, you don't understand nothing. l mean, you don't come from where we live.
You-You're not bussed here.
- Do you have a choice to get on that bus?
- Man, you come and live in my neighbourhood for one week and then you tell me if you got a choice.
- There are a lot of people who live in your neighbourhood who choose not to get on that bus.
What do they choose to do? They choose to go out and sell drugs.
They choose to go out and kill people. They choose to do a lot of other things.
But they choose not to get on that bus.
The people who choose to get on that bus, which are you, are the people who are saying,
"l will not carry myself
down to die
When I go to my grave
My head will be high"
That is a choice.
There are no victims in this classroom!
- Why do you care anyway? You just here for the money.
- Because I make a choice to care. And, honey, the money ain't that good. Whatever.
- Read it again, Miss Johnson.
- What?
- Read those lines you just read again.
"l will not go down underground
Because somebody tells me
that death's comin' 'round"
Does that mean just what it says ?
- No, it don't mean just what it says.
Because you wouldn't go under the ground if someone told you death was comin'.
But you would go into the ground if you were already dead.
- Do the rest of you agree with that?
Well, I kinda agree with it, but I think it just means that he ain't gonna help death out, you know? lt's not like he's just gonna lay down and wait for it.
I think he's gonna choose-No, I think he's gonna make the choice to die hard.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, I agree with that.
- Yeah, me too.
- That's what it sounds like to me. Okay.
- Well, what about, uh, the rest of it? Um
"When I go to my grave
My head will be high"
"Head will be high." What does that mean?
- You're gonna die with pride.
- Right.
- See you tomorrow.
- Callie, wait up!
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