Musique : Chanson P

Postérité

Born to Be Alive est le premier single et le seul grand succès du chanteur français. Celui-ci prétend dans sa biographie Alive ! que la chanson est « le troisième titre le plus vendu de l'histoire aux États-Unis », qu'il a « obtenu 56 disques d'or dans 25 pays » et que « 27 millions d'exemplaires ont été vendus à travers le monde ». Cependant, ces informations sont contredites par la RIAA (le titre ne figurant pas parmi les 100 meilleures ventes aux États-Unis), le Livre Guinness des records  et les organismes officiels (la chanson n'ayant reçu qu'un disque de platine au Canada, un disque d'or aux États-Unis et en Allemagne, et un disque d'argent au Royaume-Uni).

Selon le chanteur, le single lui rapporterait en droits d'auteur entre « 800 et 1 500 euros par jour ».

Dans la culture

La chanson est reprise sur les bandes originales des films Poltergay (2006) où elle est interprétée sur un tempo beaucoup plus lent par l'actrice Julie Depardieu accompagnée du groupe Moto, et dans Le Skylab (2011) dans sa version originale.

Le groupe espagnol originaire de Barcelone Dr Calypso reprend cette chanson sur la compilation I Love 70's de 2003, dans une version ska-reggae.

Une version instrumentale est audible dans le film Climax (2018) de Gaspar Noé.

Paroles

We were born to be alive
We were born to be alive

Born, born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see, you were born
Born, born
(Born to be alive)

People ask me why
I never find a place to stop
And settle down, down, down
But I never wanted all those things
People need to justify
Their lives, lives, lives

You see, you were born
Born, born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see, you were born
Born, born (born to be alive)

It's good to be alive
To be alive
To be alive
It's good to be alive
To be alive
To be alive
It's good to be alive

Time was on my side
When I was running down the street
It was so fine, fine, fine
A suitcase and an old guitar
And something new to occupy
My mind, mind, mind

You see, you were born, born
Born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see, you were born, born, born (born to be alive)
You see, you were born, born
Born to be alive
(Born to be alive)

You see, you were born, born, born (born to be alive)
You see you were born, born
Born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see, you were born, born, born
(Born to be alive)

Born, born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
Yes, you were born, born, born
(Born to be alive)

Born
Born to be alive

Source : Musixmatch

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