Once on This Island movie - We Dance lyrics
rate me<br>
[WOMAN]<br>
Asaka, grow me a garden<br>
<br>
[MAN]<br>
Please Agwe, don't flood my garden<br>
<br>
[TWO YOUNG WOMEN]<br>
Erzulie, who will my love be?<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
Papa Ge don't come around me.<br>
<br>
[WOMAN (spoken)]<br>
Ah, such powerful, such temperamental gods<br>
rule our island.<br>
<br>
[ASAKA]<br>
Asaka, Mother of the Earth.<br>
<br>
[AGWE]<br>
Agwe, God of Water.<br>
<br>
[ERZULIE]<br>
Erzulie, beautiful Goddess of Love.<br>
<br>
[PAPA GE]<br>
And Papa Ge, sly Demon of Death.<br>
<br>
[WOMEN]<br>
Asaka, grow me a garden<br>
<br>
[MEN]<br>
Please Agwe, don't flood my garden<br>
<br>
[WOMEN]<br>
Erzulie, who will my love be?<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
Papa Ge don't come around me<br>
Please Agwe don't flood my garden<br>
Asaka grow me a garden...<br>
<br>
[WOMEN]<br>
We dance<br>
[MEN]<br>
We dance<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
To the music of the gods<br>
The music of the breezes through<br>
The green plaintain<br>
The murmur of the river and<br>
The roar of rain<br>
And if the Gods decide to<br>
Send a hurricane<br>
<br>
[WOMEN]<br>
We dance...<br>
<br>
[MEN]<br>
We dance<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
To their everchanging moods<br>
<br>
[WOMAN (ASAKA)]<br>
We know the gods are happy <br>
When the green things grow<br>
<br>
[MAN (AGWE)]<br>
They're angry when the river <br>
Starts to overflow<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
And since we never know <br>
Which way the winds will blow...<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
We dance to the earth<br>
We dance to the water<br>
The Gods awake and we take no chance<br>
Our hearts hear the song<br>
Our feet move along<br>
And to the music of the Gods <br>
We dance!<br>
<br>
[ANDREA (spoken)]<br>
On the other side of the island, safe behind<br>
high walls and iron gates, the grands hommes<br>
dance to a different tune.<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
La la la la la la la<br>
<br>
[DANIEL]<br>
The drink champagne. Entertain tourists at <br>
their fine hotels. And tell their servants,<br>
"Polish up the Mercedes!"<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
La la la la la la la<br>
<br>
[MAN]<br>
Two different worlds<br>
Never meant to meet.<br>
<br>
[MAN]<br>
The peasants labor<br>
<br>
[WOMAN]<br>
The grands hommes... eat!<br>
<br>
[ANDREA AND DANIEL]<br>
How fine <br>
Our clothes are!<br>
[ALL OTHERS]<br>
We dance<br>
[ANDREA AND DANIEL]<br>
How fast <br>
We drive!<br>
[ALL OTHERS]<br>
We dance<br>
[ANDREA AND DANIEL]<br>
We dance at parties...<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
While we are dancing<br>
Just to stay alive...<br>
<br>
[WOMEN]<br>
We dance<br>
[MEN]<br>
We dance<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
What else is there to do?<br>
<br>
[MAN]<br>
But plant the seed<br>
And pull the weed<br>
And chop the cane<br>
<br>
[TWO WOMEN]<br>
And bear the child<br>
And bear the load<br>
And bear the pain<br>
<br>
[THREE WOMEN, TWO MEN]<br>
ANd as the rich go racing <br>
To their own refrain<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
We dance to the earth<br>
We dance to the water<br>
The Gods awake and we take no chance<br>
Our hearts hear the song<br>
Our feet move along<br>
And to the music of the Gods <br>
We dance to the earth<br>
We dance to the water<br>
The Gods awake and we take <br>
No chance...<br>
<br>
[PAPA GE]<br>
Two different <br>
worlds.<br>
Never meant <br>
to meet.<br>
But if the gods move <br>
our feet...<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
We dance! We dance! We dance!<br>
<br>
[MAN (spoken)]<br>
Once on this island, there was a terrible <br>
storm!<br>
<br>
[MAN]<br>
Many huts washed away! Many peasants <br>
drowned by Agwe's angry waters!<br>
<br>
[WOMAN]<br>
But one small girl<br>
caught his attention.<br>
<br>
[LITTLE TI MOUNE]<br>
Aaaahh!<br>
<br>
[MAN (Agwe)]<br>
And she was spared. An orphan, plucked<br>
from the flood by Agwe.<br>
<br>
[WOMAN (Asaka)]<br>
Sheltered in a tree by Asaka.<br>
<br>
[WOMAN (Erzulie)]<br>
And sent on a journey by the gods. A journey<br>
that would test the strength of love...<br>
<br>
[MAN (Papa Ge)]<br>
Against the power of death...<br>
<br>
[MAN, WOMAN (Erzulie, Papa Ge)]<br>
On this island of two different worlds!<br>
<br>
[ALL]<br>
The story of Ti Moune!<br>
<br>
