Ferme Les Yeux Et Imagine Toi

Blacko
It only happens to others
We don't realize until it touches us
We know very well what's going on elsewhere
But we dare to complain
Put things into perspective, close your eyes, imagine yourself
You'll see how beautiful your life is

Close your eyes and imagine your life
In those countries where politicians wear camouflage
Where freedom of speech is a conspiracy
Where the dollar civilizes with cannons
Where you can die from a simple fever
Where epidemics roam without a leash

Do you really think you could handle the heat in those countries where for 2 months
You tan, while they burn all year round?
Imagine your life without clean water
A shower on rainy days
No food on the table

Imagine yourself in a hospital with an incurable disease
A disease that judges you guilty
Imagine yourself locked up like Natacha Kampusch
Or burned like Ama Galaidou on the bus

Open your eyes now
And before insulting life, think twice

It only happens to others
We don't realize until it touches us
We know very well what's going on elsewhere but we dare to complain
Put things into perspective, close your eyes, imagine yourself
You'll see how beautiful your life is

Close your eyes
Imagine yourself somewhere in Africa
In a village built of mud under scorching sun
Imagine the hot and heavy air, this desert expanse
This meager hole for chains, this kid and this stick

Imagine this long walk you have to make
So your animals can graze and cool off
These 30 kilometers to cover
These cattle thieves and their Kalashnikov
Shooting without thinking

Imagine Madagascar and its mountains of garbage
Imagine being 8 years old with bare feet
Imagine your hands in the trash for a piece of bread
Dude, you get used to it

Imagine Paris and its ring road
Somewhere under a bridge not far from traffic
Imagine yourself under a dirty duvet fighting the cold
Fighting against hunger

Now imagine yourself in your car
Stuck in traffic
The man slowly emerges from his blanket
The man has your face

(Imagine) Tell me how you feel
Do you look at it differently?
Before insulting life, think twice

Refrain
It only happens to others
We don't realize until it touches us
We know very well what's going on elsewhere but we dare to complain
Put things into perspective, close your eyes, imagine yourself
You'll see how beautiful your life is

Karl, imagine yourself without music
Health damaged by the 3/8 shifts
Back and forth to the unemployment office

Said, imagine yourself without this struggling success
Just minimum wage, prisoner of this brick tower
Imagine yourself without Sniper, me without psy4
And those good times others don't know

Imagine our lives without all that
That's why, let's thank God for all that

Sorry for the days when I complain
The days when I only see myself
My nose and nothing further

Sorry for all those times I magnified my problems
For all those times I made the world revolve around myself
Close your eyes just for a second, see the world's misery
And your place in all of this?

Let's be aware of the luck
We have and maybe you'll see that life is beautiful