Talismán

I just wanted to be anyone
Break out of here, make a hole to flee
Live my life my own way
And find something beautiful worth dying for

A little bit of hash and your hips
I don’t need anything more to be happy
You and I walking down the streets
Knowing the future hides a kiss and a scar

That’s why when I lose control, I trot down the street like a wild horse
Brother, give me a little of that
I know sometimes I’m sane, sometimes I’m crazy
Sometimes the memory is just a broken mirror

Where I try to look at myself to understand how it works
This heart that doesn’t reason
Since I’ve understood that love never betrays
My home isn’t a place but a handful of people

Who take care of me
And now that you know, just tell them
Tell them, finally
That without them I’m a miserable
Just a miserable

An ephemeral verse broken in the wind
Soulless like a mannequin
Searching for pity in the eyes of time
And can’t find it because it’s not there

And still, I intend to hold out in the trenches
Until my skin wears out
We learned to dance as kids
In the middle of disaster

What are you going to tell me about burning it all
About escaping forward like a bull
While I gulp down the present in one quick sip
Because the future is just smoke and the past is dust

And what I learned riding through time
I’ve touched the sky and kissed the mat
Sometimes I lied, but today I swear I’m not lying
My only wealth is a handful of people

Who when I have nothing come and give me
Save this old titan from the hurricane
Who writes sad verses of gold and tar
And raising his glass, toasts to his clan, his talisman