We are us, we are many
We hide at night
For fear of motorists
Of linotypists
We are the black cats, we are pessimists
We are the bad thoughts and
We have nothing to eat
How deep is the sea
How deep is the sea

Dad, you were a great hunter
Of quails and pheasants
Chase away these flies that
Don't let me sleep, they make me angry
How deep is the sea
How deep is the sea

It's useless, there's no more work
There's no more decorum
God or whoever for him, is trying to divide us
To hurt us, to drown us
How deep is the sea
How deep is the sea

With the force of a blackmail
Man became someone
He also resurrected the dead, opened prisons
He stopped six trains with their wagons
He raised the poor for a moment to
A role difficult to maintain
Then he let him fall, to cry and scream
Alone in the middle of the sea how deep is the sea

Then alone the scream became a drum
And the poor like a lightning in the sure sky
He started a war to conquer
That joke of land
That his great heart had to cultivate
How deep is the sea
How deep is the sea

But the land was taken away from him
Including the one left on him
He was thrown into a palace, into a ditch
I don't remember well then a story of chains
Beatings and experimental surgery
How deep is the sea
How deep is the sea

Meanwhile a mystic, perhaps an aviator
Invented the emotion
That put everyone back in agreement
The beautiful with the ugly
With some damage to the ugly
Who saw themselves delivered
A piece of mirror so they could look at themselves
How deep is the sea
How deep is the sea

Meanwhile the fish
From which we all descend
Curiously watched the collective drama
Of this world that to them
Undoubtedly it must seem bad
And they began to think in their great sea
How deep is the sea in their great sea
How deep is the sea

It is clear that thinking is annoying
Even if the thinker is as silent as a fish
Indeed a fish and like a fish
It's hard to stop
Because the sea protects it
How deep is the sea

Of course, those in charge are not willing
To make poetic distinctions
Thought, like the ocean, you can't
You can't block it, you can't fence it
So they are burning the sea
So they are killing the sea
So they are humiliating the sea
So they are bending the sea

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