MOTS

Twelve versions of the truth

Sometimes I really feel like
I Live in a different world from yours
A world with evanescent contours
Where frontiers dissolve themselves and die

You seem so sure but can you tell
Just one irrefutable thing ?
What makes you certain that your whole life, well,
Isn’t a huge misunderstanding ?

What do you wanna believe ?
Now tell right from wrong
What do you wanna believe ?
Now tell right from wrong
What do you wanna believe ?
Now tell right from wrong
What do you wanna believe ?
Now tell right from wrong

You say you’ve done all you could for me
I dragged you down into the dirt
When I needed you, you weren’t there for me
I swear I never meant to hurt

[who’s right ?]

One person’s monster is another’s hero
And today’s convictions will be denied tomorrow

I could give you twelve versions of the truth
You would see it yet another way

What do you wanna believe ?
Now tell right from wrong
What do you wanna believe ?
Now tell right from wrong
What do you wanna believe ?
Now tell right from wrong
What do you wanna believe ?
Now tell right from wrong

sanctuary

Immersed in his own wounds – familiar inner journey
He’s safe from the outside here, no one else has the key
Pain reassures him like an old friend, it proves he’s still
[alive Staying here with himself is the only way he can survive
He locked the door years ago and now he’s stuck in this [place

Filled with ghosts that all have his face

He knows this place very well, can make it as big as he [wishes
But it remains inexorably closed, seems it has lasted for [ages

He’s gone too far, doesn’t know how to come back
Now the beautiful world he had created is turning black
He bangs into the bars of his own conscience each time
[he tries to go away Mad rush in a labyrinth whose plans have gone astray

He screams :

Get out
Get out
Get out
Get out
Kill me
Kill me
Kill me
Kill me

Only for the mad ones

I’ve lived a thousand lives
And all of them were lies
I entered every room
And everything inside was true
I opened every door
And played every scenario
I tried a thousand roles
And found there was no best one

And yet they told me
To follow the yellow brick road
Yes, they told me
To keep my green spectacles locked

But why should I stay where they say I should be ?
Why should I kill all these parts of me
While everything I see
Is so attractive to me ?

I’ve gone a lot of roads
Even the tortuous ones
I’ve showed all of my faces
– Didn’t know I shouldn’t do this …
I never could be pleased
With unicity
Despised security
That makes everything so insipid

And yet they told me
To never get close to needles
Yet they told me
To never use the little key

But why should I stay where they say I should be ?
Why should I kill all these parts of me ?
While everything I see
Is so attractive to me ?

The feast [Prometheus]

Hey you there
Seems like you’re missing something Hey you there
You could steal it from me
Don’t worry
I am the perfect victim
You will see
I promise I won’t scream
While you’re there
You can eat my bowels
Anyway
My liver will regrow

I thought I would get hurt when I fell,
But it hurts cause I don’t fall
I thought I would get hurt when I fell,
But it hurts cause I don’t ever fall

I am tired
Of fighting again and again I am tired
Of always being strong
I know I’ll win
Because I’m used to it
I always win
And it makes me sick
And finally
What if I surrendered ?
What do you think ?
Would it all fall apart ?

I thought I would get hurt when I fell,
But it hurts cause I don’t fall
I thought I would get hurt when I fell,
But it hurts cause I don’t ever fall

Come on, come on, please just help yourself
Take everything you can break
Come on, come on, please just help yourself
Break everything you can take

F*** me again, destroy me again
F*** me again, destroy me again
F*** me again, destroy me again
F*** me again, destroy me again

CARTOGRAPHY OF OBLIVION

I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now

Pieces of my story
Fade and break off by themselves
In the folds of my shrivelled memory
Can’t seem to recognize myself

All these things I’ve done
– But was it really me ? –
All these things I have known
Tomorrow where will they be ?

I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now

I will forget your face, forget the time you hurt me and forget your caresses, I will forget the pain of losing you and it will be worse than losing you, but I will forget, I will forget why and how and I will forget that once I knew, I will forget the day you promised me that we would be happy and I will forget that I didn’t believe you cause I knew you would forget your promise, I will forget the meaning of this all or rather I will forget to seek for it, my world’s gonna turn over and slowly shrink and I don’t know what will remain, and it terrifies me, for what can I cling on to if my own past is slipping away, if my mind leaves me ?

I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now

Trying my best to hold back
Words and places, names and faces
I trace entangled lines to keep track
Of this and fill empty spaces

All these things I’ve lived
– Did they happen once ? –
Strange how they’re distorted
I reinvent their sense

I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now

Sea of signs

I see things that nobody seems to perceive
I can’t get them out of my mind
I might be mad – is that what you believe?
– Or I might be a seer in the land of the blind

I swim in a sea of arbitrary signs
That none decrypts the same way
When I try to read between the lines
Everything blurs and slips away

Just because you can’t see it
Doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist
Just because you don’t understand
Doesn’t mean that it makes no sense

Truth is the average of everyone’s views
So the great majority prevails
And those who don’t agree are said to be confused
But under the veil there’s just another veil

Just because you can’t see it
Doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist
Just because you don’t understand
Doesn’t mean that it makes no sense

0 killed [at least nothing shows]

So you don’t wanna know what’s going on around you
It’s so much easier to close your eyes
You say it’s not your fault, say it doesn’t concern you
You prefer to believe in your own lies :
No dirt
No fear
No hurt
No tear

Let me drown, close your eyes
Everything will be alright

You can always pretend you haven’t seen anything
If none’s there to see, then nothing happened
But when people will talk, you’ll know about everything,
You’ll be the first to say what should have been done :
No doubt
You’re right
Stay out
You’re bright

You hide behind a wall of silence
Retreat in your good conscience
Now you want to tell me how I should feel
In guess in your world my pain is unreal

relief

Hey you,
I don’t know you
I wish you could be there and hold my hand…
I know there’s nothing in the end
I know this is all vain
But it would make sense with you
Regardless of the nowhere
we would go,
We’d just go,
just together

And it would be enough to make some light and see our dreams dancing ;
I would hear the echo of your heartbeats and nothingness
would no longer be nothingness ;

I wouldn’t be afraid
I wouldn’t be afraid
I wouldn’t be afraid
I wouldn’t be afraid

I would see the reflection of my doubts in your eyes and I would know that I exist ;
I would feel your breath and the rhythm of the blood in your veins ;
The shivering of your eyelids would meet the wavering of the world
And it would be a convenient, familiar motion to me, I wouldn’t be afraid.

I wouldn’t be afraid
I wouldn’t be afraid
I wouldn’t be afraid
I wouldn’t be afraid

CARTOGRAPHY OF OBLIVION

I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now

Pieces of my story
Fade and break off by themselves
In the folds of my shrivelled memory
Can’t seem to recognize myself

All these things I’ve done
– But was it really me ? –
All these things I have known
Tomorrow where will they be ?

I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now

I will forget your face, forget the time you hurt me and forget your caresses, I will forget the pain of losing you and it will be worse than losing you, but I will forget, I will forget why and how and I will forget that once I knew, I will forget the day you promised me that we would be happy and I will forget that I didn’t believe you cause I knew you would forget your promise, I will forget the meaning of this all or rather I will forget to seek for it, my world’s gonna turn over and slowly shrink and I don’t know what will remain, and it terrifies me, for what can I cling on to if my own past is slipping away, if my mind leaves me ?

I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now

Trying my best to hold back
Words and places, names and faces
I trace entangled lines to keep track
Of this and fill empty spaces

All these things I’ve lived
– Did they happen once ? –
Strange how they’re distorted
I reinvent their sense

I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now
I gotta fix this, gotta fix this right now

Confession [I’m not sorry]

So you want me to pay for such a crime
But the only thing I’ve done was being me
I guess I should feel sorry, guess I should feel guilty
And ask you to forgive me – but not this time

Well, you think I am too different
But I won’t apologize for being who I am
Want me to shut up, smile and pretend
But I’d rather stay myself than take part in your
[sham

I think too much, ask too much, cry too much and [dream for hours
I’m much too weird, too passionate, a bit too lively, [too indecent
I cannot stand dilution, I’m addict to quintessence
I’m not able to suit your moderate desires

Well, you think I am too different
But I won’t apologize for being who I am
Want me to shut up, smile and pretend
But I’d rather make my rules than be a pawn in your [rigged game

Well, you think I am too different
I won’t apologize for not fitting your schemes –
Want me to shut up, smile and pretend
I’d rather stay alone than prostitute my dreams
Well, you think I am too different
But I won’t apologize for being who I am
Want me to shut up, smile and pretend
But I’d rather stay myself than take part in your
[sham

Under control

No place for failure, no place for tries
No place for accidents, no place for compromise
Whether I reach the top or I seek for disaster
I handle the rise, I make the sinking faster, faster,
faster

Perfection can’t resist the injury of time
Wonder doesn’t last, all is desperately light
I’ve been pursuing my ideal without ever noticing
That the bright star everyone’s staring at is just burning,
burning, burning

A perfect life, a perfect love, a perfect smile for a perfect girl and
A perfect dream with perfect plans and a perfect end, a perfect end

It’s all under control
It’s all under control
It’s all under control until you fall and can’t pick up the pieces

All is under control
All is under control
All is under control
All is under control
All is under control
All is under control
All is under control
All is under control
All is out of control

Dislocation

Broke into me, broke into me
Broke into me, broke into me
Destroyed everything, plundered everything
Destroyed everything, soiled everything

I wish you could protect me but it’s too late
Demolition’s consummated and the world just goes on
People keep partying on the ruins of my being
And that’s ok – yeah that’s ok.

It’s not just about me, not just about me
It’s not just about me, not just about me
So why wouldn’t they laugh, why should they stop ?
Yeah, after all, why should they stop ?

Surprise and pain are taking my breath
Whatever – life has to prevail.
Something will arise from my tears in the end
Even if I still don’t know what

Even if I still don’t know what
Even if I still don’t know what
Even if I still don’t know what
Even if I still don’t know what