Sikey [English translation]

To the criticisms coming from all the gossips I know

To the hypocritical silence of false friends

I answer

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

Your senseless hate will change nothing

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

Your opinion means little

My path is already mapped out

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

Spare me your grotesque smile

That covers up a scandal-mongering attitude

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

My desire is focused

“For as long as she insists

On singing in public

What honour is left to the noble one

Brought up by the rules of the nobility

Forbidden to sing or speak in public?”

“All playing of music

By a noble is buffoonery”

To those comments I answer

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

Your senseless hate will change nothing

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

My choice comes from the heart,

I’m sticking by it to the very end.

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

My determination is strong

My aim is clear to me.

Without artifice or malice,

Without ever hankering for the other summits

That tower over my own limits.

Accompanied by this unknown destiny,

Borne along by my convictions,

I advance with sure step towards the answers

Scrupulously hidden away

Behind the enigmas of life.

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

Your senseless hate will change nothing

I’m an artist

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

Your opinion means little

My path is already mapped out

Music, the stage!

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

Spare me your grotesque smile

Which covers up a tittle-tattling attitude

Yes, I sing, I play, I dance!

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

My desire is focused

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)

My choice comes from the heart,

I’m sticking by it to the very end.

Hé sikey (let’s talk openly!)