Effets Secondaires [English translation]

In this time of confinement

We took a little break

Far from the insane rush

we opened our eyes

On this time of confusion, sometimes it feels good to get back to thinking even if it's not by choice

So between the cries of children and school work

Between the mask and the gloves, between fear and anger

Seeing the leaders freak out in their chaotic management

In this time of confinement, we ask ourselves some questions

And now…

What if this virus had many other virtues other than attacking our vulnerable lungs

What if it was also trying to show us

that our lifestyles have become harmful?

What If we have to save our lives by staying at home

finally letting the Earth recover what we took from her

Nature makes its law by taking back its rights

Taking revenge on our arrogance and contempt

And is it not a coincidence that this vile virus

Does not attack the youngest people , does not harm children ?

It only attacks adults who are responsible for this world

It condemns our drifts and avoids the innocents

This adult world has become so feverish

The established order shattered into pieces

Earthlings are reminded they are human and fragile

And maybe they feel it is time to sort things out

And what if this virus had many other powers

Other than to attack our respiratory systems

What if it was also trying to awaken our memories

On the values forgotten ​​behind our ambitions?

We suddenly find ourselves similar, united

All in the same boat to confront the virus

It was a little less the case to fight poverty

We were less united to welcome the aquarius

What if this virus had the enormous gift of reminding us of what is really essential to us?

Travelling, going out, money are no longer the norm

And from our windows we learn to look at the sky again

We have time for family, we slow down work

And even with the outside, we reinforce our ties

We reinvent our rituals, full of ideas, full of discoveries

And every day we check in on our elders

And what if this virus was showing us who are the real heroes ?

Those who were already working in our distant thoughts

Only now they make the headlines in the papers

While the CAC 40 is in quarantine

Long before Corona hospitals were suffocating

They were coughing misery and saturation

Our leaders discover there is cause for concern

Now that there is a queue in intensive care

We suddenly recognize those who help us to live

When the state suffocates all of our public services

Those who clean the streets, who transport and deliver

We rediscover the transparents of the republic

And now…

So when this virus leaves as it came

What will be left is its side effects

What we will gain with all that we have lost?

Will our dead have had a worthwhile fate?

And now…

And now…

And now…

And now...

• Artist:Grand Corps Malade