Vieux frères [English translation]

Vieux Frères / Vieux Frères / I’m writing to you in thinking that you are probably already asleep / swept away by sleep

Except of course / our Vieux Frère who keeps vigil

And the other Vieux Frères who will arise on the other side of the Earth

Vieux Frères / it is a clear and soundless night / the blizzard outside has finally left

I want to exploit this moment of respite / in order to tell you something

Sonething important

Vieux Frères / it has been a long time / several years already / since I was offered an amulet / a type of talisman

Which practically / saved my life / which granted me a better view

To distinguish the silver cords

Vieux Frères / unfortunately it was removed from me / it died

After having flashed like an exhausted neon

I lost it until finding it / until losing it again and again one hundred times

Until throwing up my arms

And yet / Vieux Frères

Against all odds / I think that something is happening

I feel that somewhere / inside of me / it has started to stir again

The surges show themselves once more

Vieux Frères / at first they were small and widely scattered

At which point I didn’t even understand them

But since then / it accelerated / little by little / since then

It seems that the machine I thought short-circuited is being resurrected

Vieux Frères / this began some months ago / but initially I was not relieved

How could I have doubted myself at this time?

I did not immediately notice the coloured flashes in the black

The quiet bursts on the walls and faces

Vieux Frères / first it was in the arcades / it was believed I had hit rock bottom and would stay there for good

But we managed to tighten the circle / two times

Since there were fumigants / parachute flares from everywhere

Like rallying cries making echos in the valleys

Next it was the turn of Vieux Frère / who had changed and become wise

Since the turn of the other Vieux Frère / who was back in the saddle forever

I also remind myself of the night in the month of May / of the game of darts

And that we were back again just like idiots / but relieved to laugh

Vieux Frères / again afterwards / there was the road

We traversed the grand spaces of Loiret

When I saw our Vieux Frère taking a photo with his hands

And finally Vieux Frères / there was last night

Last night / at 10 000 feet / while the plane was plunged into darkness

Each taking turns / seconds at a time / as in broad daylight

As in the streets when the night falls

Each taking turns / Vieux Frères / you are lit up

You are adorned with a golden blue halo / I thought I saw a picture

Time has stopped

I swear to you on all I hold most dear

I swear to you on the lives of all Vieux Frères

On those of the Belles

And on my own

Vieux Frères / I think that I am regaining my sight

Vieux Frères / it is this that I have been waiting for so long

It is for this that I fought in the night / that I wrote mantras / causing me to believe in violence

Without knowing / what it could really resemble / because I had forgotten

Vieux Frères / maybe it’s that I am crooked / maybe that it will vanish

Maybe I was wrong / maybe it is in my head

But for now / it is here and again here / and the proof:

I have it in the palm of my hand / as I address these phrases

So Vieux Frères / prior to once again getting screwed / before darkness swallows the flame

We will give one last thrust and bare our teeth

We will dive back into the stream and no matter how long for

Because now we know that this may be / that it is possible

Vieux Frères / we will break through this tunnel

We will take our revenge / Vieux Frères

We will win the beauty

• Artist:Fauve ≠
• Album:Vieux frères – Partie 1 (2014)