Does it happen to you too
To seek the day in the night?
Does it still happen to you
To make sweet eyes at death?

While dancing to Nirvana
Beyond the hot and the cold
To have the courage to say yes
To the demons that steal your life
Do you still carry secrets
For which the world is not ready?
Even if times have changed
There are still so many things to hide
So many obvious things to tear apart
Chains on our youth
So many tears not to shed
Songs not to sing

How do you manage to live?
And what delivers you
From this crazy era?
Are you holding up?
How do you manage to live?
And what delivers you
From this crazy era?
Are you holding up?

Does it happen to you too
To look for the exit?
Does it still happen to you
Not to resemble your body?
To walk along the precipices
To chase after clues
To have to unravel the mystery
Of the harm that was done to you

What have you done with your recklessness
With your fire, with your certainties?
I roll under the Big Dipper
As if living was second nature
As if all this made sense
Their pride and their violence
Answering the "how are you?"
From those who do not listen

How do you manage to live?
And what delivers you
From this crazy era?
Are you holding up?
How do you manage to live?
And what delivers you
From this crazy era?
Are you holding up?

Tell me, how are your dreams?
To which stars do they fly?
Tell me, what are your battles?
What indelible fevers?
What revolts you?
What do you do with your voice?
When everything is burning
What about your joy?

I don't know if you read
I don't know if you sing
I don't know if you dance
When the future haunts you
How do you get through
This insane period?
How have you lived
These past years?
What do you feel in the morning
At the first light of day?
And what do you feel in the evening
At the last lights?
Do you feel, you too
Elsewhere, always elsewhere?
And do you have, you too
Like a hole in your heart?

How do you manage to live?
And what delivers you
From this crazy era?
Are you holding up?

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