Peur De Vivre (Featuring Deni HInes) - IAM

Sometimes you walk through life

Like you can’t do nothing right

You’re too afraid to leave too scared to die

Lost on your innocence

And got no common sense

That’s not the way life was meant to be

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may seem

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may seem

Comme une brindille dans le torrent tumultueux

Tous on cherche une amarre, tous en quête de remparts

Se dressant fièrement dans les lieux

Où tout est devenu rare

Souvent craintive, la force créatrice, elle, se rue dans l’placard

Et nos certitudes aveuglées fuient d’la lumière au bout du couloir

Quand les totems changent, le sens de nos louanges s’en retrouve avili

Mensonge et perfidie invitent les anges au bal des maudits

La foi n’est plus qu’un chien docile

Que l’ignorance dégage du pied

Faisant place nette pour le missile

Facile façon de dialoguer

Un œil au sud et l’autre au nord

Scotché à nos besaces, on trace, on fuit

Ils aiment voir que les corps regorgent de trésors et

Dès le prochain fort

Si l’ombre de la faux presse, si l’destin stresse

On stoppe les machines craignant que tôt n’apparaisse

L’heure des remords

Le chemin rotor vient alors

Des sentiers battus à tort

D’ailleurs, tous veulent lui échapper

Seulement ici ou ailleurs y’a jamais eu qu’une issue

Beaucoup insistent

Sûrs et certains que l’enjeu vaut la mise

J’espère qu’là haut y’a une place pour l’déçu

Chaque jour grossit la liste

Ballottés par les flots, tant bien que mal à nos biens on s’arrime

Croyant qu’l’acquis prolonge un peu d’nos vie, quelques-uns toujours triment

On se perche sur les cimes des monts

Comme si la mort ne frappait qu’au sol

Et là nos âmes s’immolent

Vaincues par la peur de nos propres démons

Rien n’arrête le torrent, ni privilège, ni barrière de diamant

On peut l’admettre: qu’nageant à contre courant

Là commence le tourment

On risque à chaque tournant

Au bout d’la course, une inévitable attente et juste avant y’a la vie

Et on peut y faire c’qu’on veut, tant…

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may be

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may be

Vivre n’est pas si simple

Aucune formule succincte ne l’explique

Des âmes: il y en a maintes

Qui conjuguent tout bonheur au passé simple

À force de tourner la tête pour chercher derrière

On s’enfonce dans les ronces

Et on y voit plus une simple clairière

La peur d’mourir, de perdre c’monde

Fais place à la peur d’vivre

Alors on s’livre, ivres

C’est la peur d’sourire, d'être libre

On s’bâtit des bulles, autour d’nous

On y met tout ce qui nous rassure

En s’disant qu’l’année qui vient sera dure

Et puis on trouve même plus d’oreille

Pour exprimer cette peine qu’on endure

On déambule, plus de cachets dans le sang qu’un grabataire en cure

On chute sur ce parterre en dur

Quand persuadés d’faire bien

On plante un opinel, brusquement, à ceux qu’on aime, dans les reins

Soudain, on s’aperçoit de toute l’ampleur d’la solitude scellée par nos soins

Confortée par la routine, née de l’habitude, fait de lassitude

S’lamentant sur notre manque d’aptitude à vivre l’instant, on s’projette

souvent sous d’autres latitudes

Puis on finit par s’croire victime quand on est coupable et peu docile

La prise de conscience, cela dit, est hors du domaine du possible

Arrivent les rides et l'œil s’pare de faux signes

Mais rien n’empêche les mots passés, eux aussi, de devenir fossiles

Cette bulle qui nous entoure est opaque, elle interdit les détours

C’est la confiance en nous, et nos repères, qui s'écroulèrent en ces tours

Je viens en c’jour pour exposer la nature de celui qui va là: أشهد أن لا إله

إلا الله

If you could have one wish

Tell me would you exist

In the life that you are living now

Or would you back it up

And look for better luck

Runaway from your reality

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may be

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may be

Sometimes you walk through life

Like you can't do nothing right

You're too afraid to leave too scared to die

Lost on your innocence

And got no common sense

That's not the way life was meant to be

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may seem

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may seem

Like a twig in the rushing torrent

We're all looking for a mooring, we're all looking for ramparts

Standing proud in the scene

Where everything has become rare

Often fearful, the creative force rushes into the closet

And our blinded certainties flee from the light at the end of the corridor

When the totems change, the meaning of our praise becomes debased

Falsehood and treachery invite the angels to the ball of the accursed

Faith is no more than a docile dog

That ignorance clears from the foot

Clearing the way for the missile

Easy way to chat

One eye to the south and the other to the north

Glued to our saddlebags, we trace, we flee

They like to see bodies full of treasures and

From the next fort

If the shadow of false press, if fate stresses

We stop the machines fearing that sooner will appear

Time for remorse

The rotor path then comes

Wrongly beaten paths

Besides, everyone wants to escape him

Only here or elsewhere there's only ever been one way out

Many insist

Sure and certain that the stake is worth the bet

I hope that up there there is a place for the disappointed

Every day grows the list

Tossed about by the waves, somehow to our goods we anchor

Believing that the acquired prolongs a little of our lives, some always toil

We perch on the peaks of the mountains

As if death only knocks on the ground

And there our souls are immolated

Overcome by fear of our own demons

Nothing stops the torrent, no privilege, no diamond barrier

We can admit it: that swimming against the current

There begins the torment

We risk at every turn

At the end of the race, an inevitable wait and just before there is life

And you can do whatever you want with it, so long...

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may be

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may be

Living is not so simple

No succinct formula explains it

Souls: there are many

Who combine all happiness in the past simple

By dint of turning your head to look behind

We sink into the brambles

And you see more than just a clearing

The fear of dying, of losing this world

Make room for the fear of living

So we surrender, drunk

It's the fear of smiling, of being free

We build bubbles around us

We put everything that reassures us

By saying that the coming year will be hard

And then we even find more ears

To express this pain that we endure

We walk around, more pills in the blood than a bedridden man in treatment

We fall on this hard bed

When persuaded to do well

We plant an opinel, suddenly, to those we love, in the kidneys

Suddenly, we realize the full extent of the loneliness sealed by our care

Comforted by routine, born of habit, made of weariness

Lamenting our lack of ability to live in the moment, we project ourselves

often in other latitudes

Then you end up thinking you're a victim when you're guilty and not very docile

Awareness, however, is beyond the realm of possibility.

Come the wrinkles and the eye is adorned with false signs

But nothing prevents past words, too, from becoming fossils

This bubble that surrounds us is opaque, it prohibits detours

It's our trust, and our bearings, that crumbled in these towers

I come on this day to expose the nature of the one who goes there: أشهد أن لا إله

إلا الله

If you could have one wish

Tell me would you exist

In the life that you are living now

Or would you back it up

And look for better luck

Runaway from your reality

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may be

You got to be up you got to be down

Before you can turn your life around

No matter how hard your life may be