Le monde est notre reflet [English translation]

I have seen "the alone" dying in front of an entire crowd, collapsed on the ground but the crowds was shopping you see

I have seen the child barefoot on cold flagstone in winter begging for some coins to hearts colder than time

I have seen the animal being sliced alive or being hit with sticks by "seed of tyrants"

I have seen Mother Earth screaming, lung perforated with leakages of petroleum in Its oceans

I have seen the adults going mad on the Child

Drunk or not 1

I have seen them soiling innocence

Ganging up on the weaker if occasion presents itself

Condescension we can see how hurtful you are

I have seen you dragging the heretic to torture

Pushing people to suicide, incarnating yourself in people's intolerance

Toughened up conquistador continues its conquest of madness

Snatching cities of gold through blood

I have seen the devil swearing before God imitating the voice of angels

Narrating kindness to justify its thirst for blood

[Chorus]

Don't you see that this world is our reflection?

Paradise of mirrors where the walls are closing up

All that does not kill, fight for real

Is collective soul in the fire of Hell?

[2nd verse]

I have seen Man, alone, fleeing the country that saw him born

Crossing the seas thinking only about the survival of his people

Gone on a craft of miseries we've seen him moving away from the port

Like many others he won't come back

I have seen unscrupulous people taking advantage of an other's misfortune

To sell a dream that only hides a nightmare

I have seen money corrupting families and ancestral values

And giving place to only to debauchery

Man, I’ve seen cowards talking about great bravery

To kids who cry because of their need of love, we tell them it's normal

I have seen adults, hate as lampshade

That didn't give a shit any more

I've seen the heart which housed tornadoes

Realised that our silence meant that we approved

Are we waiting to die before the rope breaks?

I have seen exhausted souls everywhere

Tyrants in office creating problems to later take advantage of

I have seen cruelty from some, indifference from the others

The great journey of the soul sold for a treasure hunt

[Chorus]

[3rd verse]

I have seen the children gotten on his feet by his parents

Boisterous, humiliated by his teacher with a dunce cap

I have seen this kid under sedative because judged disruptive

Found dead from overdose some years later

I have seen this woman which gave everything, abandoned by her own ones

Living in the shadows of her past life

Since then I saw her getting old alone, dying in a shabby hospital

Treated like a 4 years old kid

I have seen alcohol; cocaine; haschich; heroine and amphetamine destroying a fragile youth

Prefabricated dreams in TV and magazines

Lives wasted in searching to appear good and stress and all

I have seen paramilitaries; cops and rifles

Pointed on those who refuse to obey to their barbary

I have seen a world that emits only avarice; violence; sex; drugs...

Although famine and death are coming

[Chorus]

1. Word for word "with or without a gramme of alcohol"

• Artist:Keny Arkana
• Album:Tout tourne autour du soleil