We were brothers one day and things changed, it's true
He left
Eighteen months on the other side of the earth
Testing his body and mind
In the banana fields of Oceania where one rises at dawn
Testing the rest on Asian beaches
Where one tastes synthetic happiness
And the infinite spaces that the waters cover at night
Where one rises at dawn

And if we cried together
That September day when we parted
It's because we knew that infinite tenderness
Memory and the mobile phone
Are little against distance
That everything was going to change
He left
It's because he rises at dawn
Yeah, you have to tear yourself away

First there is the free age before domestic life
That we all await like an absurd and necessary sentence
And then these chimeras to flee
That we believe we leave at the doors of long-haul planes
Finally, the fear of getting fat here
That comfort makes us stupid
He left
It's because he rises at dawn
It's because he rises at dawn

In our long sleepless nights
Which were dying in the ashtray
We dreamed a lot and waited for things to happen
As if by magic
The day after these drunken evenings
I mostly remember the bitter smell of cold tobacco
The torpor that the weed we smoked generated
Impotence and pride
You have to choose, life is elsewhere
That's what we told ourselves
He left
It's because he rises at dawn
It's because he rises at dawn

Before his departure he was already less talkative
Than when I met him, eight years earlier
It's because there is no age to have old demons
His, I believe, spoke to him of lineage and family tree
To this one too we cut the branches that cast a shadow
And the leaves die there in the fall
So I understood his silences
And I shared them
I also told myself that I was probably less passionate myself
Less extravagant than in our early adolescence
When we discovered, like everyone else
The peril of any real seduction enterprise
And the taste of clumsy and conquered lips
We also learned by heart the harsh and fleshy mysteries
Of the female sex that we first touch with our fingers
And above all, above all
The insolent and naive feeling of freedom, the ample lungs
When you take the road of travel for the first time
He left
It's because he rises at dawn
It's because he rises at dawn

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