Les choses telles qu'elles paraissent [English translation]

All of these things

All of these things

As long as I can remember

Ever since my earliest childhood

I've been taught to love what appears as crystal clear

And to fear what seems dark, bleak and gloomy

I've never been taught to look beyond

Beyond all that seems reassuring

And beyond the fear that inspires things

As they appear

[Akhenaton]

Since kindergarten, we frequented the same school's benches

Inseparable, as young adults we were part of the same group

Same chicks, same screw ups, same gloves

One day the waking up is rough, we're not speaking the same language anymore

I've got enough of those "that's how life goes"

Too much respect for her so I'd rather hear those "that's how desire goes"

Money, like boiling,

Takes friendship's into its hand and launches it into water with its disillusions

[Shurik'n]

The eyes, the hair, the body, the height

He had everything she liked in a man

The style, car, clothes, watches

He had everything she wanted

Kind words, attention

He had everything she sought after

With him, she felt like a woman, she felt protected

Between restaurants, clubs and parties, living life in the fast lane

She didn't felt the links slowly chaining her

All these arsenic-flavored "I love you's", I shouldn't have tasted them

That's what she's telling herself in front of the mirror, taking her bruises and wounds in

[Akhenaton]

I was in tenth grade and she was my history teacher

I felt like she was always taking digs at me

Everytime, those little remarks made my blood boil

I resented her, in my hear, I wanted to unscrew her head off

The one I thought of as my ennemy was the only one to defend me

She wrote "I believe in you way more than yourself"

Here are your dreams, keep them and don't let anyone take them away from you

[Shurik'n]

He doesn't give a shit about me, he's always away on the other side of the world

Never here, always at work when mine is crumbling

I rarely hear his voice reasoning in soccer fields

And it's always mom showing up when I scrap my knees

It's crazy how much bullshit you can think of when you're a kid

All the pain we feel at every departure, like a hammer blow

That's what I read in my folk's eyes at every goodbye

And I tell myself that they'll do just like me and understand later

[Akhenaton]

At 17, I thought I got everything figured out

And yet my mom told me

At the wrong place, at the wrong time

That's when you stand too close to troubles and conflicts

Too disrespectful, peace and serenity fled me

Someone you love think of your happiness before his

Doesn't know that when looting, everything can go wrong in an instant and over nothing

Normal people who, for a moment, go crazy

Attract loyalty in the middle of endless wars

[Shurik'n]

We saw each other often, we worked together

We played soccer every week end and had a big cookout on Sundays

Aside from a little teasing, nothing appeared to me as strange

Up until that sentence, launched into the air but of heavy consequences

And then my expression changed, slowly I distanced myself

Disappointed, upset, surprised by such bigotry

And the link disintegrated little by little

I saw him as my friend yet I was but a token

[Ayelya Douniama]

Behind what we see, behind what we live

Even beyond the appearances and behind the unsaid

Despite the obviousness, despite the smiles

Is a rose really a rose, as if I can smell it

Behind what we see, behind what we live

Even beyond the appearances and behind the unsaid

Despite the obviousness, despite the fake smiles

Is a rose really a rose, as if I can smell it

That's the difference between being and seeming