Shonen [English translation]

[Verse]

I've made errors and I'll make others

I just hope they won't be the same ones

What's the point in writing lyrics

If I don't know how to tell people I love them?

How many more eulogies

Before I finally say it? Before any more losing battles

Of wars with no winners?

In the beginning, it was just a pastime

But time passed, I was just doing it to make them laugh

It was just a party thing, they were well rehearsed freestyles

But when there's buzz, shit goes down

Hyenas, sons of tabloid writers

I had just released my first album

I'm getting political, I'm sad and alone, uh

Thank you to my exes, uh, thank you for the crash tests, uh

I wouldn't appreciate what I have if it wasn't for your help, uh

Thank you for throwing me away, uh

I mean—I really mean it, I wouldn't have changed if you hadn't told me to, uh

Modern love, honest beautiful grotesque thunder in my poems

Where I'm from, I just wanted a little sunshine, to be the hero of my own shōnen

New York, the spot is packed, shit, Tokyo, the spot is packed, shit

Paris, thank you, thank you, I'm booking Bercy for a whole week

Usually, I only talk 'bout my defeats 'cause you only learn through failure

Orel and Gringe, Ablaye and Skread, I didn't like the game, I changed the rules

Truth is the only remedy when the wounds of friendship get infected

I've lost friends, they lost themselves

You want friends? Accept them with their baggage

I turn down offers, I turn down checks

With lots of zeroes, like 6 or 7

It's my integrity I'm buying, that's what I call paying the price of dreams, uh

It's for those childhood dreams that we gave ourselves the means

I need something bigger than me, I need some soul, I'm just the son of pagans

Everything is transformed, nothing is lost

I've done things I'm not proud of

I can become better, I can't go back

I was all alone, we are thousands

Soon, you'll all forget me

Sorry but I'm gonna have to leave

Just know it was good while it lasted

Yesterday was yesterday, today I'm clearing my debts, uh

I wouldn't trade what I have for eternal youth, uh

We did what we did the way we did but we did it, uh

Everything is transformed, nothing is lost, shadow and light