Plus rien [English translation]

I only have a few minutes left to live

I feel as though I'm becoming weaker by the hour

My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert

Now I'm the last human on Earth

They told me once, when I was a child

What the world was like a long long time ago

When my great grand-dad's parents were alive

And when snow still fell in winter

In those days you followed the pace of the seasons

And the end of summer brought with it harvest time

A pure and clear water ran in the streams

Where deer and moose came to drink

But I've only seen a depressing planet

Lunar landscapes and suffocating heat

And all my friends die of thirst or hunger

Like a bunch of flies

Until nothing was left

Nothing...

Nothing...

I only have a few minutes left to live

I feel as though I'm becoming weaker by the hour

My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert

Now I'm the last human on Earth

All this happened several years ago

When my ancestors were obsessed

With bits of paper they called money

That made some men really rich and powerful

And these new gods, backing down from nothing

Were ready to do anything to achieve their ends

To become even wealthier they sheared the Earth

Polluted the surrounding air and dried up the rivers

But after about a hundred years some people started to wake up

And they warned them they needed to stop

But they didn't understand this wise prophecy

Those men only spoke in terms of profit

It was some years later that they saw the error of their ways

In panic they declared a state of emergency

When all the oceans engulfed the islands

And the floods hit the big cities

And for a decade afterwards

It was hurricanes and fires

Earthquakes and a great drought

You could see distress on every face

People had to fight against pandemics

Were killed in millions by atrocious diseases

And the others died of thirst or hunger

Like a bunch of flies...

Until nothing was left...

Nothing...

Nothing...

My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert

Now I'm the only human on Earth

In the end the intelligence we were given

Will have perhaps been no more than a beautiful poisonous gift

As I only have a few minutes left to live

I feel as though I'm becoming weaker by the hour

I can't walk anymore, I can hardly breathe...

Goodbye world...

Goodbye world...

• Artist:Les Cowboys fringants
• Album:La Grand-Messe (2004)