J'ai vu [English translation]

I've seen a city sworn

To the lost lands,

Bodies lying on the ground,

A naked tree

There, right before my eyes,

A landscape

It's snowing, it's raining

On a beach

War was here

I've seen the ruins of a myths,

My eyes wide open,

With stalactites

In my eyelids

Tons and tons of ashes

Covered everything,

Every single meandering,

Even the slightest hole

War was here

All I recognized

Was the familiar smell,

But I didn't dare

Understand war

The enemies

Were all there

No one laughed

For it was me,

It was me, the enemy

I was fighting all alone

Cannon fodder

I was the shepherd

And the sheep

An artilleryman

A wounded man

An infantryman

A male nurse

War was here

Baghdad was my city

I had put up walls

I had killed thousands

I would have killed myself, that's for sure

Have you seen the bullet holes

In the walls,

In the doors,

In the houses?

War was here

You've seen, you've got a bullet hole, too

Does it hurt?

It's the same for me

I've got a hole

It hurts, sometimes

But when you don't think about it, it's alright

You think that many people have holes in them?

Personally, I think it's the case

But we don't see it,

We hide it,

We deal with it

Is that what life is?

It's those who don't have any who show them off

It's when the sky touched the moon

That I put a brick back up again

To rebuild it, one brick at a time,

Our city, so it may be magical

So it may be magical

For, you know,

War was here

War was here [x3]

In your skin, in my skin

War was here

In your head, in my head

War was here

In your eyes, in my eyes

War was here

In your body, in my body

War was here