I must have listened to the opening to this daily youtube series about 30 times now, but I still can't make it out very well.
The following is my pseudo-transcription. In various parts where I cannot guess any reasonable word, I write down bolded nonsense words that stand for what sounds I hear:
En ce juste -euh dans Toi, vivra mon secours.
Viens ce mé dans mon âme, le grand de l'amour.
Je traverse un désign1, et je meurt de soif.
Montre-moi le mystère qui garde de la foi.
(I'm guessing that "juste-euh" is really just "juste" with the final usually-silent "e" being pronounced, as sometimes happens in music (I think?).)
But even apart from the bolded words, my guess at the lyrics has a lot that seem questionable to me:
- "vivra mon secours": "will live my help". How is something inanimate like "help" able to "live", and why is it in a future tense, instead of a present tense? Wouldn't it make sense for the singer to be saying "My help lives only in You" instead of "My help will live only in You"?
- what is "le grand de l'amour"? If I put this into DeepL, the closest translation it gives that makes sense is "The great one of love". Is this true; ie "The great one" means God? Is using the adjective "grand" as "le grand" to mean "the great person" a common thing to do?
- what does "meurt de soif" mean? "mourir" in WordReference doesn't have the meaning of "to quench [thirst]". So the literal meaning I read ("to kill thirst") doesn't seem to make sense to me.
So, there are sounds that I can't find reasonable words to match in this opening, and also sentences that I can indeed find words to match, but I have doubts if these words are correct. That's why I'm curious to see what the actual lyrics are.
1. Because I seem to listen to young speakers from Montréal the most, I'm most familiar hearing "en" (in "dans", "-ment", "ans", etc) being pronounced as a much more closed vowel (high-tongue) than would be pronounced in the accent of Standard French, closer to Standard French's pronunciation of "in" ("vin", "mains", "bain"). Most hosts and many guests (though not all) in this show from Québec seem to pronounce "en" in the more-closed-vowel way that I'm familiar with; and these speakers also tend to pronounce "in" using a characteristically Canadian French dipthong (sort of like "è" sliding to a nasalized "i" ("i" as in "vie"")?).
So it surprises me that "grand" is pronounced with the closed pronunciation that I'm familair with.. but "viens" is not pronounced with a dipthong (and "désign", if that's the actual word, is also not pronounced with a dipthong). This makes the "en" in "grand" and the "in" in "viens" rather similar! I am indeed able to hear the difference, but it surprises me that any speaker -- such as the singer, here -- would pronounce these two vowels so closely. It surprises me so much, that I question if my transcritpion of "viens", "grand", "désign" etc are even correct.
