Avant Tu Riais (feat. Clara Luciani)

I watch these men in suits
Drowning in this shapeless crowd
This woman with a hard face pushes through
She’s focused on her career, charging ahead

Despite the harassment from men
But the only thing driving her
Somewhere, it’s the emptiness
She needs more
Than just a strong antidepressant

But if she let her urges run wild
What she’d really do is paint
On a high mural, her scars
She knows what she wants
It’s something almost elemental

But is she mentally ready?
I almost wish she’d bury me first
Before time takes her
Before she becomes a real skeleton
And we lose her in the broad sense, a real skeleton

To be displayed in science class in the afternoon
An eternal smile lingering within her
As if this life were just a sad joke
So he shows her off so we can learn by force

That man’s reign lies in science
And that magic doesn’t exist, but we’ll resist
In your head, things aren’t right
Your thoughts are ellipses

The system lets you fly
But it’s not wings, it’s rotors
Control yourself or be controlled
You can be free or a prisoner of your vices

And if the kids decide to take over
The next ones will suffer years of abuse
Suddenly the station empties and eyes avoid
And it’s civil war, it’s so vile
Love fades so quickly

Mother Earth suffocates under the dirt of her sons
Faced with these ideas we endure, I know, blindness seduces you
Ego-centered bellies, very few help each other
Sad irony of a service society

People in need come after appearances
That we’ll soon have to save
What do you say to your neighbor who lost
His grandparents in the Warsaw ghetto?
So you screamed without pause and bent over backwards without luck
Your neurons fried, your heart turned to ash

You never knew how to bend when you needed to dream
Little fresh blood, hard to concentrate
Your whole childhood in outlying areas
You’re young and ambitious so you feel ready

Already as a kid you only listened to 113
You told your mom: I’ll be back, time’s pressing
Only to get you up would I come down
One day I’ll buy the whole building
Just to make sure they let you in

Adventurer of the unknown, before you laughed at the unknown
Before you laughed at time passing, and then time passed
But, before you laughed at the unknown, before you laughed at the unknown
Before you laughed at time passing, and then time passed

Adventurer of the unknown, before you laughed at the unknown
Before you laughed at time passing, and then time passed
But, before you laughed at the unknown, before you laughed at the unknown
Before you laughed at time passing, and then time passed

You feel that you’re unique
You don’t want to be outdone
Man is cowardly like a knot
And you float like doubt

Connections are made and unmade
Humans offend and get high
Even from the tops of trees, all this overwhelms you
Your sums of thoughts that sleep erases

We are zombies, we are masks
Just men now turned harmful
Desolate zones, men and women
You feel like you belong to none of the clans

Side smiles, winks
Before mourning a love in decline
Fleeing immaterial nature, it’s uncertain we can
Faced with inner light, we squint our eyes

They say love makes you blind but it gave you sight back
It made you change when your rage was deaf, it made the street hum
It made you take off the dog collar that served as your scarf
Education made you unlearn
Essential things you already knew

Above all, don’t forget that before you laughed
But love frees you, have you forgotten?
You’re nothing in the universe and before you shone
Free your light, they’ll want to reason you
Free your light

Adventurer of the unknown, before you laughed at the unknown
Before you laughed at time passing, and then time passed
But, before you laughed at the unknown, before you laughed at the unknown
Before you laughed at time passing, and then time passed

Adventurer of the unknown, before you laughed at the unknown
Before you laughed at time passing, and then time passed
But, before you laughed at the unknown, before you laughed at the unknown
Before you laughed at time passing, and then time passed