I must be silent for a long, long time
Wander all around, front and back
To shiver, to feel
To have something to say
My friend, I have nothing to offer you but this silence that will make you flee
Or this overloaded speech that no longer knows where to perch

The more you ask, the more you insist
The more I hide, the more I resist
And I can read in your eyes
That you remember why we see each other so little
You had forgotten, it comes back to you
I'm an old man, I'm a child
I drink water, I have no scoop
And when we get too close, I cut off

You tell me that everything dances, even embarrassment
Even hatred, even wandering
That everyone dances loneliness
The state of siege, the state of emergency

I must love for a long, long time
Dead and buried loves
To see us everywhere all the time
And make up appointments for myself
I must not understand for a long time
Why no one was able to surrender
And take the other in his arms
To listen to what does not come out

And by breaking the mirrors, by blowing up my memory
I know, it doesn't look like it
I need to laugh, laugh at myself
I need anonymous letters accusing me of all crimes
And in the morning of my life, to have made many enemies

You tell me that everything dances, even embarrassment
Even hatred, even wandering
That everyone dances loneliness
The state of siege, the state of emergency

You tell me that everything dances, even embarrassment
Even hatred, even wandering
That everyone dances loneliness
The state of siege, the state of emergency

I need a long, long struggle
The walk and the argument
I need to explore my time
And all that it provokes
Contemplate my contemporaries
Who sublimate their sorrows
Check out the mystery and heroism
Of dancing under capitalism

You tell me that everything dances, even the shame
That rises, that rises, even the absence
That everything dances
That everything dances

You tell me that everything dances, even embarrassment
Even hatred, even wandering
That everyone dances loneliness
The state of siege, the state of emergency

You tell me that everything dances, even embarrassment
Even hatred, even wandering
That everyone dances loneliness
The state of siege, the state of emergency

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