One more song in the French repertoire evoking Lebanon. The dying Lebanon, which claims the right to live, to be reborn from its ashes. It took one more faith, the sensitivity of an artist to be able to hear her cries of distress, from a country caught in the cyclone of devastating uterine conflicts. Daniel Guichard, in 1989, released an album entitled “For her”, in which he dedicated a moving song to the land of cedars, called “Le droit de vivre”, written by J. Demarny and composed by M. Cazenave:
There’s more water, more light in the torn town
Under its legendary tree, Lebanon is sacrificed
The women are praying while we fight outside
And in his mother’s arms, the child slowly falls asleep
Chorus:
Give him the right to live, this country is living dead
He won’t be able to survive very long
Give him the right to live other than underground
Other than a drunken boat on the sea
We take men hostage in this lost paradise
It’s a war from another age where the future is defeated
The soldiers are in rags, fanatics and hungry
While the sun shines on deserted beaches
It takes battlefields to try out the cannons
And humanity is derailed into a religious war
Give him the right to live, to land at his borders
It’s just a drunken boat on the sea
