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The TCK Song Thread
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Hi y’all,
I was listening to a song by French singer Gerald de Palmas who is a TCK himself. And i was wonbderinbg what other music makes you think of TCKs and/or any music by a TCK that has helped you?
Here is info about him from wiki:
Gérald De Palmas (born Gérald Gardrinier, on October 14, 1967 in Saint-Denis, Réunion) is a French singer. His father was a land surveyor from France and his mother was a French teacher from Réunion.
At the age of 10, De Palmas’ family left Réunion, to live in Aix-en-Provence, France. At the age of 13, he discovered ska music, and became a fan of the UK band The Specials.
His newest album Un homme sans racines (A man without roots) was released in 2004.
The song i was listening to: I will try to translate it — but i shall make mistakes so beware it is not perfect! It’s late and i’m not perfect 
Un homme sans racines
Plus je prends de l’âge plus j’oublie
Là où je suis né
Peu à peu mon cœur a enfoui ce qui fait mon passé
Difficile de vivre le présent sans avant sans après
Alors j’avance au hasard d’un pas mal assuré
[The more i age the more i forget
the place where i was born
Little by little my heart has hidden what makes up my past
It is hard to live in the present without a before and after
So i advance by chance with a hesitant step (bad steps taken?)
Je suis un homme sans racines
Au moindre vent je m’incline
Juste un homme sans racines
Je pense à demain et j’imagine
[I am just a man without roots
with the least wind i incline myself (at the slightest sign of trouble i back down?)
Just a man without roots
I think of tomorrow and i imagine]
Parfois des visages me reviennent
mais je préfère tirer un trait
Sur ce mélange de bons souvenirs
mais aussi de mauvais
J’aimerais trouver un endroit où me recueillir
Un endroit où puiser la force, la force de m’affranchir
[Sometimes faces return to me
but i prefer to focus upon
the mixture of good memories and bad ones
I would like to find a place
where i find the force, the force to release me (free me?)]
Je suis un homme sans racines
Au moindre vent je m’incline
Juste un homme sans racines
Je pense à demain et j’imagine
Au moment opportun
Je tuerai mes démons un par un
Fort et serein je ne serai plus…
[At a convenient moment
i shall kill my demons one by one
strong and serene i shall not be anymore]
Je suis un homme sans racines
Au moindre vent je m’incline
Juste un homme sans racines
Je pense à demain et j’imagine…
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Look Brice! He’s from Reunion! Plus he’s a Frenchie! *gasp!* So, how did i go with the translation?
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December 8th, 2007 at 5:30 am
Maintenant je suis trop fatiguée, donc bonne nuit a tous!
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December 8th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Interpol singer Paul Banks is a TCK
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December 8th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
I used to love DePalmas! Thanks for reminding me of him again
Another singer I love who’s a TCK is Manu Chao. He’s a Spanish/French TCK, and he sings in Spanish, French, English, Portuguese and a few other languages.
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December 8th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Excellent work on the translation and nice find, Isa!
This is not Gerald but wow, it’s really good.
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December 9th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Well, there’s one song that reminds me of being a TCK. She’s not a TCK as such but she moved around the US for a lot of her childhood.
The song is A Place Called Home by Kim Richey.
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December 10th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Brian Molko from the band “Placebo” is another TCK.
Born to a American international banker father and a Scottish mother, Brian Molko’s family moved frequently during his childhood, including spells in Scotland, Liberia, Lebanon and Luxembourg. Molko has referred to a period spent in his mother’s home town of Dundee, Scotland as “where I grew up”.[1] He attended Goldsmiths College in London, where he studied drama. He describes his childhood as a period when he felt very lonely and alienated. He started to wear make-up at the age of 11. He was an actor in a school drama theater.
While Molko was brought up in a strict household that disapproved of artistic expression (his father wanted him to become a banker) he rebelled by affecting an androgynous image, wearing nail polish, lipstick and eyeliner, and listening to punk. In his late teens, he came out as bisexual.
Here’s “You don’t care about us” by Placebo.
If it’s a bad case, you’re on the rampage.
Another memory… scarred.
You’re at the wrong place, you’re on the back page,
you’re in the getaway… car.
Lyrics:http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/placebo/youdontcareaboutus.html
More about Brian Moko: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Molko
I always wonder if those people even know they are TCKs and if all of this could’ve been prevented?
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December 10th, 2007 at 1:19 am
Nice one, Charm! I found the song on Youtube used on a Harry Potter fan vid. Very TCK lyrics.
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December 12th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Another TCK musician is O-Shen (www.O-Shen.com) He grew up in PNG - and does mostly “island” music - it’s a weird mixture of rap/island/hiphop.
MU
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December 29th, 2007 at 8:16 am
TCK band Seriously
They are made up of four Asian American guys, children of Asian immigrants, from California.
http://www.tckid.com/group/seriously-a-tckid-band/
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January 19th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Here are some more TCK musicians:
Nicole Sponberg (formerly of the Selah group) - Grew up in Congo, Africa: http://www.gregandnicolsponberg.com/
Paul van der Bijl – grew up in Irian Jaya, Indonesia: http://www.vdbandreed.com/
Sarah Notley – grew up in Irian Jaya, Indonesia: http://www.sarahnotley.com/
Steven Mann – grew up in ????: http://www.guitarmann.com/Music.htm
Hiram Ring – grew up in Ghana, Africa: http://www.hiramring.com/
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March 2nd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
that song is GORGEOUS!!!1 fully made me cry cus i could so relate to it!!
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March 2nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Brian adams is sorta a tck i think..
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March 2nd, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I feel the need to post Makiza - La Rosa de los Vientos
Again.
Such a TCK song.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 6:35 pm
My “TCK theme song” is the Jazz classic Gypsy In My Soul written by Moe Jaffe and Clay Boland.
Someone is calling me
From way out yonder
It’s just the gypsy in my soul
There is no greater life of which I’m fonder
It’s just the gypsy in my soul
Ain’t got no cares
Got no strings
But my heart, it’s got wings
If I am fancy free and I love to wander
It’s just the gypsy in my soul
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April 11th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I can’t believe we forgot Neha?!
GO SEE HER MYSPACE!!!!
http://www.myspace.com/nehashastri
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May 6th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MuAGBvWX2uQ&feature=related
this probably comes close to my theme song- Home by Above & Beyond
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nvCo55lKOHE&feature=related
this is just a different version, the ‘club mix’ version.
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May 9th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Hey here is a song by Corneille.
He’s a TCK too. He was born in Germany to Rwandan parents and lived there ’til he was 6 then went back to Rwanda until the genocide in 1994 where his family was killed. He managed to escape to Germany where he was adopted by friends of his parents. He finished up school, then went to Montreal for uni.
“Terre” by Corneille.
Loin des cauchemars de mon passé
Loin de mon enfance
Loin des rues en terre des quartiers
Mon adolescence
Loin de mes danses avec la mort
Loin de mes souffrances
Je suis chez moi malgré l’apparence
Car ici
J’ai retrouvé la joie de vivre, je suis bien ici
J’ai retrouvé le goût d’aimer, je suis bien ici
Je me suis fait une vie, une famille, un pays
Je suis bien ici
[Far away from the nightmares of my past
Far from my childhood
Far from the suburban dirt roads
My adolescene
Far from my dances with death
Far from my sufferings
I’m at home despites appearances
Because here,
I have refound joy in life, i am well here,
I have found the tase of love, i am well here,
I have made a life, a family, a country for myself
I am well here.]
Un bout de terre n’a jamais fait chez soi
C’est le temps qui me l’a appris
Quand je regarde, je trouve autour de moi
Un nouveau sens à la patrie
[A bit of earth has never made home
That it what time taught me
When i look, i see around me a new sense of fatherland.]
J’ai vécu l’enfer sur la terre
Qu’on appelle mon pays
Je vous demande pardon soeurs et frères
Mais comprenez mon cri (pardon)
J’ai perdu tout ce qui m’est cher dans ce pays maudit
C’est la triste histoire de nos vies
Oh ! Mais ici
Je peux tout faire, je peux rêver
Je suis bien ici
Je suis pas ingrat, ni lâche
C’est juste que je suis bien ici
Je suis un nomade, je suis chez moi où on m’a accueilli
Même dans le froid d’ici
[I’ve lived through hell on earth: what they called my country
I ask forgiveness from you, my brothers and sisters
understand my cry (sorry).
I lost all my loved ones in the acursed country.
This is the sad story of our lives.
Oh! But here.
I can do everything here, i can dream.
I am well here.
I am not ungrateful, nor a coward.
It’s just that i am well here.
I am a nomad, I am at home where i am welcomed/accommodated.
Even here in the cold.]
On sacrifie tellement de vies
Au nom de la patrie
On vend les siens, on se trahit
Et il y a avec ça toujours une chose
Que tout le monde oublie
On n’emporte pas la terre quand c’est fini
[We sacrifice many lives in the name of the fatherland,
We sell out our loved ones, we betray ourselves
And there is always one thing that the world forgets. We do not carry the earth when it is over.]
Well, Bricee et Marie et al, what do you think of the translation? I am unsure abt the end.
What do you think?
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June 9th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I love this - Michael Franti & Spearhead have a TCK anthem of sorts! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuAahjFL-mA&feature=user
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June 9th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
J’adore de Palmas et Corneille
je savais pas qu’ils sont des TCKs aussi! (et que de palmas a le même anniversaire que moi).
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June 12th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
So, I’m resurrecting this 3 day old thread
because as I was listening to music last night I realized that one of my favourite groups are TCKs.
Les Nubians (born to a French and a Camerounian parents and grew up in Chad and in France)
One of my favourite songs is “Voyager” which is (poorly) translated here:
Sous un soleil entété
N’Djamena la belle est réveillée
Le muezzin interpelle les fidèles de sa voix de miel
Remerciant le Très Haut pour sa bonté
J’emporte dans ma mémoire
La saveur de ces heures
Les chants et les voix
Les douleurs et les pleurs
Lâ-bas, j’ai vu la guerre et l’espérance
Mais
Ailleurs, on fait mieux la différence
( Under a stubborn sun,
The beautiful N’Djamena is awake
The muezzin interpellates the faithful with his honey voice
Thanking the Great for his goodness
I bring in my memory
The savors of these hours
The songs and the voices
The pains and the cries
Over there, I saw war and hope
But
Elsewhere, we tell apart better)
Partir loin et découvrir
Quel air l’humanité respire
Comment nos contemporains vivent
Sous d’autres lumières
Voyager
(Leaving far and discovering
What air humanity breathes
How our contemporaries live
Under different light
Travel)
Voyager
Rien ne m’est plus essentiel
Plier bagage,
En quete d’autres images plus réelles que celles des vitrines actuelles
Miroirs d’ignorance et de suffisance extrèmes
(Travel
Nothing is more essential to me
Making your bags
Searching for other more real immages than the ones in the current window
Mirrors of ignorance and extreme egotism)
Je me déclare citoyenne universelle
Je m’offre le passeport de terrienne
Décide que toute terre est mienne
Rio, Yaoundé, Paris, c’est la mème
Chacun son karma
Le mien d’ètre nubienne
(I declare myself universal citizen
I offer myself hte passport of earthling
Decide that all earth is mine
Rio, Yaoundé, Paris, it’s all the same
To everyone their karma,
Mine is to be Nubian)
Partir loin et découvrir
Quel air l’humanité respire
Comment nos contemporains vivent
Sous d’autres lumières,
Loin d’ici
(Leaving far and discovering
What air humanity breathes
How our contemporaries live
Under different light
Far from here)
Voyager
(Travel)
Aller toujours plus loin.
(Always going further)
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September 16th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Resurrecting this thread to post This Time Tomorrow, by The Kinks. I heard this when I was watching The Darjeeling Limited the other night (Which is a fun little movie). None of the band members are TCKs, as far as I know, but all the stuff in the song about traveling all over the world sorta hit home for me.
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October 1st, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Nelly Furtado’s “I’m like a bird” is a perfect TCK song!
Lyrics
You’re beautiful, that’s for sure
You’ll never ever fade
You’re lovely but it’s not for sure
That I won’t ever change
And though my love is rare
Though my love is true
[Chorus:]
I’m like a bird, I’ll only fly away
I don’t know where my soul is, I don’t know where my home is
(and baby all I need for you to know is)
I’m like a bird, I’ll only fly away
I don’t know where my soul is , I don’t know where my home is
All I need for you to know is
Your faith in me brings me to tears
Even after all these years
And it pains me so much to tell
That you don’t know me that well
And though my love is rare
Though my love is true
[Chorus]
It’s not that I wanna say goodbye
It’s just that every time you try to tell me that you love me
Each and every single day I know
I’m going to have to eventually give you away
And though my love is rare
And though my love is true
Hey I’m just scared
That we may fall through
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October 19th, 2008 at 1:29 am
This is a song by U2, and probably was mean to mean something more religious…but to me it is a hundred percent tck song
And love
Is not the easy thing
The only baggage
That you can bring
Not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can’t leave behind
And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it’s a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong
Walk on
Walk on
What you got, they can’t steal it
No they can’t even feel it
Walk on
Walk on
Stay safe tonight
You’re packing a suitcase for a place
None of us has been
A place that has to be believed
To be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird
In an open cage
Who will only fly
Only fly for freedom
Walk on
Walk on
What you got
You can’t deny it
Can’t sell it or buy it
Walk on
Walk on
You stay safe tonight
And I know it aches
How your heart it breaks
You can only take so much
Walk on
Walk on
Home
Hard to know what it is
If you never had one
Home
I can’t say where it is
But I know I’m going
Home
That’s where the hurt is
And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
You can only take so much
Walk on
Leave it behind
You’ve got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you feel
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you care
It’s only time
And I’ll never fill up all my mind(???)
All that you sense
All that you scheme
All you dress up
And all that you see
All you create
All that you wreck
All that you hate
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October 19th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Dijana,
I looked up the song on the youtube:
Walk On by U2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ6IerTeD7M
It looks like you memorized the lyrics cuz you put three question marks after “And I’ll never fill up all my mind(???)”
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October 21st, 2008 at 1:03 am
hehe, i was listening to the song and wasnt sure what exactly the line was
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