Abîmée [English translation]

Like remote-controlled ghosts

We follow the crowd, the cross

The television news

Everything collapses around me

Tell me, what can you see

Alone in the dark when the thunder awakens

The children of the boulevards live through sleepless nights

Do you feel the surrounding emptiness?

Imagine one's life

In a surge of love

Refrain:

Like a damaged child

Lost in their forgotten nights

Tell me how to pretend

I lose myself in the machine of time

Like a damaged child

In a lifeless setting

Tell me how to pretend

I lose myself in the machine of time

Drowning in the uncertainty

Of tomorrows, and floating

In the middle of the bitumen

Under a dull sun

Is it necessary to lower the head

Collect the crumbs

And pretend to dream

Since none of my tears

Can change a thing

Do you feel the surrounding emptiness?

Imagine one's life

In a surge of love

Refrain:

Like a damaged child

Lost in their forgotten nights

Tell me how to pretend

I lose myself in the machine of time

Like a damaged child

In a lifeless setting

Tell me how to pretend

I lose myself in the machine of time

The world becomes deaf

And I'm nothing but a cry

A call for help

Refrain:

Like a damaged child

Lost in their forgotten nights

Tell me how to pretend

I lose myself in the machine of time

Like a damaged child

In a lifeless setting

Tell me how to pretend

I lose myself in the machine of time

Like a damaged child

Lost in their forgotten nights

Tell me how to pretend

I lose myself in the machine of time

Like a damaged child

In a lifeless setting

Tell me how to pretend

I lose myself in the machine of time

• Artist:Léa Castel