Écrire sa vie / Writing one’s life
Voice: Suno
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Inspired by the autobiographical universe of Jean-Pierre Martinez, Writing one’s life is a poetic reflection on freedom, destiny, and individual responsibility. The song develops the idea that each of us is the author of our own story, and that no path is ever definitively written. Between literature, travel, painting, and theatre, it celebrates choice, daring, side roads, and the ability to reinvent one’s life at any age. Evoking the writer as well as the musician, the painter, or the actor, it offers a philosophy of existence based on self-creation. A humanist song that invites us to follow our own path rather than conform to the expectations of others.
The full lyrics of the song Writing one’s life are presented here together with the audio recording.
Song inspired by Jean-Pierre Martinez’s autofiction Writing one’s life.
https://jeanpierremartinez.net/en/writing-ones-life/
See also the song Roots
Lyrics of the song
Écrire sa vie
Comme on écrit un roman
Noircir les pages d’un manuscrit
Laisser la fin en blanc
Au fil de sa plume
Façonner son destin
Sans connaître la fin
Sauf à titre posthume
Ne pas laisser les autres
Décider du chemin
Jusqu’à la fin choisir le nôtre
Écrire sa vie, au jour le jour
La réinventer, chaque matin
Composer sa vie comme un musicien
La réenchanter encore et toujours
Ignorer les conseils
Des amis, des parents
Nous soufflant à l’oreille
De rentrer dans le rang
Préférer le hors piste
Traverser hors des clous
Tracer sa propre route
Ne pas être un touriste
Les petits bonheurs la chance
En faire des rendez-vous
Et les coïncidences
Des signes, juste pour nous
Comme le voyageur de Robert Frost
Face à son destin
À la croisée des chemins
Choisir le moins fréquenté
S’émerveiller toujours
En dépit des blessures
Considérer que l’amour
Doit être une aventure
Chaque matin prendre la main
Des fantômes de la nuit
Cheminer pour découvrir enfin
Le sens de sa vie
Au jour le jour, et à tout âge
Décider de son personnage
Écrire sa vie la mettre en scène
Jouer sa vie comme on la rêve
Jusqu’à la fin s’autoriser
Un dernier repentir
Retoucher le tableau, ou bien choisir
De le détruire
La vie n’est pas dans les galeries d’art
Elle n’est pas dans les tableaux
La vie est quelque part
Entre la main et le pinceau
Write your life
As you would write a novel
Fill the pages of a manuscript
And leave the ending blank
With every stroke of the pen
Shape your own destiny
Without knowing how it ends
Except in hindsight
Never let others
Choose your path for you
Until the end, choose your own
Write your life, day by day
Reinvent it every morning
Compose your life like a musician
Enchant it again and again
Ignore the advice
Of friends and family
Whispering in your ear
To fall into line
Prefer the unbeaten track
Cross beyond the boundaries
Make your own way forward
Don’t be a tourist
Turn little joys and lucky breaks
Into appointments with fate
And coincidences
Into signs meant just for you
Like Robert Frost’s traveler
Standing before his destiny
At the crossroads of life
Choosing the road less traveled
Never lose your sense of wonder
Despite the wounds you’ve suffered
Believe that love
Must always be an adventure
Each morning take the hand
Of the ghosts from the night
And keep walking until you find
The meaning of your life
Day by day, at every age
Choose the character you’ll be
Write your life and stage it
Live your life the way you dream it
Until the very end allow yourself
One final change of heart
Touch up the painting, or decide
To destroy it
Life is not inside art galleries
Nor hanging in paintings
Life exists somewhere
Between the hand and the brush
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