Key: C minor•
Intro 1
Cm
Eb
Cm
Bb
G
Verse 1
Cm
Bb
Achilles, Achilles,
Cm
Bb
Achilles, come down
Cm
Won't you get up off,
Bb
Cm
Bb
get up off the roof?
Cm
Bb
You're scaring us and all of us,
Fm
Bb
some of us love you
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Achilles, it's not much but there's proof
Cm
Bb
You crazy-assed cosmonaut,
Cm
Bb
remember your virtue
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Redemption lies plainly in truth
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Just humor us, Achilles, Achilles. come down
Cm
Won't you get up off,
Bb
Cm
Bb
get up off the roof?
Interlude 1
Cm
Je vois que beaucoup de gens meurent
Eb
Parce qu'ils estiment que la vie ne vaut
pas la peine d'être vécue
Cm
Bb
J'en vois d'autres, qui se font
G
paradoxalement
Cm
pour des idées
Eb
Pour des illusions,
qui leurs donnent une raison de vivre
Cm
Ce, qu'on appelle une raison de vivre
Bb
est en même temps une
G
excellente raison de mourir
Verse 2
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down
Cm
Won't you get up off,
Bb
Cm
Bb
get up off the roof?
Cm
Bb
The self is not so weightless,
Fm
Bb
nor whole and unbroken
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Remember the pact of our youth
Cm
Bb
Where you go, I'm going,
Cm
Bb
so jump and I'm jumping
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Since there is no me without you
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Soldier on, Achilles, Achilles, come down
Cm
Won't you get up off,
Bb
Cm
Bb
get up off the roof?
Pre-chorus 1
Cm
Eb
Cm
Bb
Loathe the way they light candles in Rome
Cm
Bb
Ab
Bb
But love the sweet air of the votives
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Hurt and grieve but don't suffer alone
Cm
Bb
Ab
Engage with the pain as a motive
Abm
Eb
Ab
Today, of all days, see
Chorus 1
G
Ab
Bb
Eb
How the most dangerous thing is to love
G
Ab
Bb
Eb
How you will heal and you'll rise above
Interlude 2
Cm
D'un gérant d'immeuble qui s'était
Eb
tué on disait un jour
Cm
Qu'il avait perdu sa fille depuis cinq ans
Bb
Qu'il avait beaucoup changé depuis
G
et que cette histoire l'avait
Verse 3
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Bb
Cm
Bb
Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, jump now
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
You are absent of cause or excuse
Cm
Bb
Fm
Bb
So self-indulgent and self-referential
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
No audience could ever want you
Cm
Bb
You crave the applause
Cm
Bb
yet hate the attention
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Then miss it, your act is a ruse
Cm
Bb
Ab
Bb
It is empty, Achilles, so end it all now
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
It's a pointless resistance for you
Interlude 3
Cm
Ce qui déclenche la crise
Eb
est presque toujours incontrôlable
Cm
Les journaux parlent souvent
Bb
G
de chagrins intimes ou de maladie incurable
Cm
Ces explications sont valables
Eb
Mais il faudrait savoir si le jour même un ami
Cm
Du désespéré ne lui a pas
Bb
parlé sur un ton indifférent
G
Celui- là est le
Verse 4
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Bb
Achilles, Achilles, just
Cm
Bb
put down the bottle
Cm
Bb
Don't listen to what
Cm
Bb
you've consumed
Cm
Bb
It's chaos, confusion
Fm
Bb
and wholly unworthy
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Of feeding and it's wholly untrue
Cm
Bb
You may feel no purpose
Cm
Bb
nor a point for existing
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
It's all just conjecture and gloom
Cm
Bb
And there may not be meaning,
Ab
Bb
so find one and seize it
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Do not waste yourself on this roof
Pre-chorus 2
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Eb
Cm
Bb
Hear those bells ring deep in the soul
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Bb
Ab
Bb
Chiming away for a moment
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Feel your breath course frankly below
Cm
Bb
Ab
And see life as a worthy opponent
Abm
Eb
Ab
Today, of all days, see
Chorus 2
G
Ab
Bb
Eb
How the most dangerous thing is to love
G
Ab
Bb
Eb
How you will heal and you'll rise above
G
Ab
Bb
Eb
Crowned by an overture bold and beyond
G
Ab
Bb
Eb
Ah, it's more courageous to overcome
Les souvenirs d'une patrie perdue,
C7sus4
l'espoir d'une terre promise
Ce divorce entre l'homme de sa vie
Bridge 1
Eb
You want the acclaim, the mother of mothers
C7sus4
More poignant than fame
or the taste of another
Eb
But be real and just jump,
you dense motherfucker
C7sus4
You will not be more than a rat in the gutter
Eb
You want my opinion, my opinion you've got
C7sus4
You asked for my counsel,
I gave you my thoughts
Eb
Be done with this now and jump off the roof
C7sus4
Can you hear me, Achilles?
Eb
I'm talking to you
C7sus4
I'm talking to you
Ab
I'm talking to you
G
I'm talking to you
Ab
Achilles, come down
Fm
Achilles, come down
Ab
Ab
Eb
Eb
Ab
Ab
Eb
Eb
Interlude 4
Cm
Celle du oui et celle du non
Eb
Ce serait trop beau
Cm
Mais il faut faire la part de ceux qui,
Bb
sans conclure, interrogent toujours
G
Cm
Eb
Ici, j'ironise à peine, il s'agit de la majorité
Je vois également que
Cm
ceux qui répondent non
Bb
G
agissent comme s'ils pensaient oui
Pre-chorus 3
De fait
Cm
Eb
Cm
Bb
Throw yourself into the unknown
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Bb
Ab
Bb
With pace and a fury defiant
Cm
Bb
Cm
Bb
Clothe yourself in beauty untold
Cm
Bb
Ab
And see life as a means to a triumph
Abm
Eb
Ab
Today, of all days, see
Chorus 3
G
Ab
Bb
Eb
How the most dangerous thing is to love
G
Ab
Bb
Eb
How you will heal and you'll rise above
G
Ab
Bb
Eb
Crowned by an overture bold and beyond
G
Ab
Bb
Eb
Ah, it's more courageous to overcome
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