Où va le monde [English translation]

Where's the world heading?

Please tell me?

Where's the world heading?

I wonder where's the world heading

Where's the world heading, where's the world heading?

[Chorus] x 2

Where's the world heading? (Where's the world heading?)

Please tell me? (Where's the world heading?)

Where's the world heading? (Where's the world heading?)

I wonder (Where's the world heading?)

Calmly lying under a tree

Eyes staring at the sky

I'm wondering

What is time if I'm not my soul?

Is life a concert with death in the dressing room?

Why do humans fight each other with guns

When words are mostly enough?

Why does the life make us cry so much?

Are humans the good or the bad guys?

I don't know, I'm wondering

I want to move forward but which way?

Thinking comes first before doing

Depending on the actions, joys or disappointments

I waiting for answers and solutions

We are billions living together on Earth

Along with cancers and pollution

To ourselves are we an ally or an enemy?

[Chorus] x 2

Where's the world heading? (Where's the world heading?)

Please tell me? (Where's the world heading?)

Where's the world heading? (Where's the world heading?)

I wonder (Where's the world heading?)

I'm calmly wandering in my neighbourhood

I feel people who're looking at me

Alcoholics, drain of society

No one but Piaf sees life through rose-coloured glasses1

11 PM along cops and transvestites

The young are smoking crack, I heard it's fashion

And drugs've taken over the street

I'm looking for signs of a convenient life

Ask the kids for their best friend, it's their Ipod

Thy no longer communicate, friends are forgotten

They deny their families but chat with the whole world

Internet, PSP, Nintendo Wii

I wonder if there's something we can do

Time is long when we count the seconds

The Devil is on Earth and he's lured human

I wonder where's the world heading

[Chorus] x 2

Where's the world heading? (Where's the world heading?)

Please tell me? (Where's the world heading?)

Where's the world heading? (Where's the world heading?)

I wonder (Where's the world heading?)

It's been hours I'm in front of my sheet of paper

I'm looking for a theme but I've got no idea

I'm having a hard time filling my blank sheet

I'm thinking of everything and nothing

Of immensity

From my window I'm writing down everything I see

People in my neighbourhood, the problems of my city

I'll remake the world with a few pieces of wood

In the meantime I'm doing it in my notebook

[Chorus] x 2

Where's the world heading? (Where's the world heading?)

Please tell me? (Where's the world heading?)

Where's the world heading? (Where's the world heading?)

I wonder (Where's the world heading?)

1. refers to French singer Edith Piaf and her famous idiom "voir la vie en rose" (lit. "to see life in pink"), which means to only see the bright side of life.

• Artist:Kenza Farah