It doesn't snow in December anymore, today I'm 27 years old
That's the age Camille left
Shock at dialysis after having waited standing in a corridor
For a day, due to lack of available beds
My life has never been the same, I grew up all at once
I, who never really had a problem
The day of her death, there was an insane sun
Bursting in the azure
It made no sense amidst the noise of the cars

I played at her funeral, then at my sister's wedding
At the time, I was playing piano-bar alongside my studies
Paid by the hat or by the hour
Camille joined the 27 club
In this club, there are Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse or Jim Morrison
All junkies who were fucking rock'n'roll
But she too, she was fucking rock'n'roll
Even sick, she had a hell of a courage
She did more in her life than people who will do nothing
Out of taste for doing nothing

When I talk about the hospital, it reminds me of all the caregivers
Who took care of my grandmothers, from their chemo to their last moments
And it depresses me to think that we pay them peanuts
We applaud them to better leave them in the shit
There are things like that that don't turn out right
It's like my teacher friends at the end of their rope
With more than thirty per class, kids on social networks
Stupefied by 15-second content
Hateful tweets and clusters of fake news
It gives me confidence in the fact that soon I'll unplug

Even if I admit, it allows me to stay in the movement
It's still a good sign to be part of a generation
That deconstructs the flaws of the previous one
That awakens and reevaluates things
Even if there are always losers to spit their bile behind screens

I can't believe that thinking about education, health, climate
Social link, and culture, makes me a leftist
While some get off on the idea of chaos like in a video game
Where it would just be the fucking civil war

I'm not sure that would make Camille laugh
But there are not only terrible things
When I think of all these people who are busting their asses
Everywhere, to do good
In associations, schools
Who think of others
To be better
To take care

Since she left
The family has shrunk and grown at the same time
There are four generations living together and frankly
Seeing how cool the kids are
They're going to save the planet

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