Mr/Mme [English translation]

Good evening, Sir, Madam

Today, I’ll say it all

I prefer to address you familiarly

As I don’t like formalities

I find that they age people

And I wish to stay young

A kid for life

Without a tissue or cry

So, here we go, I’ll say it all

About the drama that I’m living

Daily it is hell

This is where I stand

I'd like to go away

Get away from it all

From this crazy world

To go I don’t know where

This world strangles me, crushes me and burns me,

Destroys me, prevents me from escaping reality

So, I would like to leave

Far away from it all, just run away

Let me run far away

Leave this world, banish it.

If God says suicide is a sin

I’ll let him decide my fate without doing him wrong

Let him turn me into what doctors call “Insane”

And then maybe I’ll see clear in this fog

So, Dear Mr “D”

Help me, love me

I can’t do it on my own

In this world that I see

In this world of struggle

Where man is just a bully

Where love is nothing more

Than quarrels and disputes

I’d like to write myself a world

A planet just for me

A planet on which

I would feel like “Me”!

A chainless renewal

Free from hatred

A planet on which

You would bless me with wings

A new universe

Where tears and sorrows

Would only be myths

Just a fucking urban legend

So, let me go

Tell me how to run away

Enough questions asked

Just let me be

The only thing I like

In your creation of man

Is that he can dream every night just like children

Whether we’re old, young, naughty

Nice or ugly

We have the right to dream even with empty pockets

As a beggar, I implore the evening

I beg for hope

But the night is stingy

Madam keeps her morphine

Because I didn’t pay

Or at least not enough

Born in a penniless family

She refuses me the moon

Because, certainly, in this world

We can’t live without these numbers

That your children have transformed into evil monsters

Every month, you earn some

Every day, you lose some

The bill is steep

I must give it back, I’m leaving hell

It’s true, I admit to being defeated

I admit it, I own up to it

Life eats me up, leaving a nasty taste of bitterness

So, hear me scream

Throw up all of my guts

In this song that tells a tale of life from a pessimistic idiot

I feel lonely, damn it!

No one is holding my hand

No one to share this glory with, fuck!

I walk alone on

This hopeless path

I’m speeding up, but no one is waiting for me at the end

So, every night, I drink

I get uncontrollably drunk

To forget that with success

Comes loneliness

Few friends, no life

I’m trapped with no air

Lots of enemies, no more nights out

God, I need a guide

Some morons will say

That I’m exaggerating

But fuck those idiots

Because I’m young and I’m struggling!

In my head, it’s chaos

Who turned off the light?

Mom, I can’t see clear anymore

I need some enlightenment

First, comes happiness

When you feed your heart

A true love

That calms your grief

You forget your misfortune

But in the end, it’s just a decoy

In this stupid generation filled with liars

Once the heart is broken

No need to summon it

Loneliness sets in

She quickly comes to find you

She doesn’t wait for you to open the door! No!

She just comes in with no warning

Your low spirits, are for her a treat to snack upon

So, who are you?

Deep down, do you know?

Because I don’t know who I am anymore, I’m lost

My ambition is grand,

Hard to satisfy

My happiness holds a bitter taste

So, Sir, Madam,

I admit it, I’m unhappy

Yet, I’m living my childhood dreams

But I can’t help it,

There's always something missing

This and that over there,

Always more, I’m like that!

So, I hope someday,

I will get to make love

To a sincere person

That doesn’t play tricks

I’m really fed up of

Giving and not receiving

I’m fed up of feeling unworthy

With no soulmate, it’s hard to bear.

But know, all the same

That on stage, thanks to you

I wander further away from this crazy world!

Cause I write when I mess up

And I laugh when I dance

And I live when I sing

And, for all that, I say:

Thank you

• Artist:Loïc Nottet
• Album:Sillygomania