L'odeur de l'essence [English translation]
L'odeur de l'essence [English translation]
(Look) Nostalgia: Lures them with the greatness of a past France that they dreamt of
(Look) The lack of understanding: takes advantage of those seeing their faith denigrated without asking.
(Look) Fear: persuades them that foreigners are going to come into their living rooms to replace them.
(Look) Distress: makes them take risks to survive where we've piled them all up.
(Listen) Paranoia: makes them think we can no longer go out on the street without being in danger.
(Listen) Panic: pushes them to scream that the Earth is dying and nobody gives a shit.
(Listen) Distrust: winds them up, saying we can't eat anything anymore, that we don't even have the right to think anymore.
(Listen) Hate: makes them turn extreme, start fires, set fire to everything
The smell of gas,
The smell of gas,
The smell of gas,
The die have been cast, all our leaders failed
They will be destroyed by the beast they created
Trust died at the same time as respect
What is controlling us? Fear and anxiety
We're self-destructive, looking for an enemy
Some say "this is fucked", others are in denial
Billionares leave (their riches) to their idiotic children
History belongs to those who wrote it
Nobody listens anymore, everyone expresses an opinion
Nobody changes their mind, only pointless debates
Everyone is agitated because everyone is agitated
Only distinct opinions, nothing is ever accurate
No more time to think, tyranny of numbers
12-year old kids whose tweets are quoted by the media
Intelligence sells less than argument
Battle royale, it's everyone for their little team
(Look) fascist jerk, hysterical idiot
(Look) everything is reactionary, everything is systemic
(Look) as soon as an idiot does something bad
In a way, the entire world becomes sensitive
(Look) the culprits are the old victims
The cycle of evil never ends
Everything is worsening, everything is cyclic
No solutions, only criticism
Everyone is sensitive (sensitive), everything is sensitive (sensitive)
Everyone is on the defensive (sensitive)
Sensitive topic, sentive person (sensitive)
Sensitive (sensitive)
Sensitive (sensitive)
Sensitive (sensitive)
Sensitive (sensitive), everything is sensitive (sensitive)
Everyone is on the defensive (sensitive)
Sensitive topic, sentive person (sensitive, sensitive, sensitive)
Everyone is fucking everyone, wants to do a conga line
Every other discussion, it's someone who's complaining
While the rest of the world is suffering so we can live well
Parents hit the booze, it's the children who pay the price
Car accidents, domestic violence
Alcohol is always the root of evil
Nothing fills more hospitals and courts
One does not accept that their an alcoholic, it's tiresome to speak ill of it
We take idiots, give them weapons
Call it "justice", be surprised by the tragedy
Caught in an infernal vortex
We treat evil with evil and the media loves it
Only various facts, Poule renard vipère*
Either you're for or you're against, everything is binary
The publicity seekers flirt with the extremes
Since idiots became the experts
Surrounded by idiots, The Mongol Empire**
We act like idiots to please idiots
We're going to fall like the Mongols
Like the Egyptians, like the Romans, like the Mayans, like the Greeks
We need to reboot, we need to reset
We no longer believe anything, everything is deepfake
Facing the unknown in rejection
Mix of fear, hate, and sadness
Our objections, our dilemmas
Corrupt, i was born in the system
Nobody is moving in the same direction, everything is inert
We only see one single form of wealth
Taking money from people, it's stealing, except when it's business
Generation Z, because it's the last one
It clearly shows that we haven't known war
All the elderly people vote, they're going to choose our future
Grandma votes for Marine, she has three years to live
Fascist Youtubers, subsersive pseudonym
Look what happens when we censor artists
Nothing ever progresses, many are radicalized
Missing the mark and they get lost in the Nostalgia
For a time where others were already nostalgic
For a time where others were already nostalgic
For a time where others were already nostalgic
For a time where-, uh, fuck, the
Sheep just want a charismatic leader
No empathy, everything is hierarchical
School only teaches you individualism
We teach you how to make money, not friends
If the president wins half the vote
That means two-thirds of France did not want it
No need to know what the Senate is
To see that the old rich people make the laws, uh
Nobody likes the rich until they become one of them
Then they stash their money or freak out about losing it
So many shitty jobs, pretending to do it
How many jobs serve only to satisfy our bosses
Fed by judgment, fed by clichés
Even though we don't even know how to feed ourselves, we destroy eachother
We don't know how to handle our emotions so we hide them
Don't know how to handle our relationships so we ruin them
We don't accept who we are so we are cowards
We never forgive eachother in a world where nothing is deleted
We spit on one another, we don't know how to live together
We fight eachother to be at the front of a plane that's going straight towards the
Crash
- Artist:Orelsan
- Album:Civilisation