L'odeur de l'essence [English translation]

(Look) The nostalgia: to promise the greatness of a France gone that they fantasized.

(Look) Lack of understanding: seize those who see their faith denigrated without them asking

(Look) Fear: to persuade them some strangers will come in their living-rooms to replace them

(Look) Despair: to make them take risks to survive where we stacked them

(Listen) Paranoia: to make them believe we cannot go out in the streets without being in danger

(Listen) Panic: to make them scream that Earth is dying and no one give a shit

(Listen) Mistrust: to excite them, to say we cannot eat anything anymore, that we're not allowed to think anymore

(Listen) Hatred: to make them turn to extremes, light the blaze, ignite everything

Gasoil scent, gasoil scent

Gasoil scent

The die is cast, all our leaders have failed

They will be destroyed by the beast they have created

Trust is dead along with respect

What is governing us ? Fear and anxiety

We self-destruct, we look for an enemy

Some say "It's screwed", others are in denial

Billionaires bequeath to their stupid children

History belongs to those who wrote it

No one ever listens anymore, everyone express themselves

No one ever changes his mind, only sterile arguments

Everyone gets worked up because everyone gets worked up

Only definite point of views, nothing really is precise

Not enough time to think, numbers tyranny

Twelve years old kids tweets quoted by medias

Intelligence sells less than polemic

Battle royal, it's each for its on team

(Look) Fascists fuckers, hysterical bitch

(Look) Everything is medias, everything is systemic

(Look) As soon as an asshole does something wrong

Somehow the whole world becomes susceptible

(Look) Culprits are old victims

Evil loop never ends

Everything degenerates, everything is cyclic

No solutions, only critics

Everyone is sensitive (Sensitive), everything is sensitive (Sensitive)

Everyone is on the defensive (Sensitive)

Sensitive topic, sensitive person (Sensitive)

Sensitive (Sensitive), sensitive (Sensitive)

Sensitive (Sensitive), everything is sensitive (Sensitive)

Everyone is on the defensive (Sensitive)

Sensitive topic, sensitive person (Sensitive, sensitive, sensitive)

Everyone fucks everyone up, wants to do the little train

One talk over two, is someone complaining

While the rest of the world is suffering for us to live well

Parents hit the booze, pay the price

Car accidents, domestic violence

Alcohol is always the evil root

Nothing fills more hospitals and tribunals

We don't admit being alcoholics, it's annoying to talk bad about it

We take simple-minded people, give them weapons

Call this "justice", and get surprised of tragedies

Took in an infernal vortex

We heal evil with evil and medias love it

Only miscellaneous, hen, fox, viper

Either you're supporting either you're opposing, everything is binary

Buzz salvaging ones flirt with extremes

Since the simple-minded people have became experts

Surrounded with simple-minded, simple-minded Empire

We will fall like Mongols

Like the Egyptians, like the Romans, like the Mayans

like the Greeks

We need to reboot, we need to reset

We don't believe in anything anymore, everything is deepfake

Facing the unknown in rejection

Fear, hatred and sadness mix

Our inconsistencies, our dilemmas

Corrupted, I'm born in the system

Nobody moves in the same direction, everything is inert

We're seeing only one wealth form

To take peoples money, it's stealing, except when it's called business

Gen Z because it's the last one

It's clear we didn't know war

Every elderly people vote, they will chose our future

Grandma votes Marine, she only has three years left to live

Fascists YouTubers, subversive pseudos

Here's what we get when we censor artists

Nothing ever moves on, numerous radicalize themselves

Lacking point of references and they loose themselves in nostalgia

From an era where others were already nostalgic

From an era where others were already nostalgic

From an era where others were already nostalgic

From an era where---, uh, fuck, the

Muttons only want a charismatic leader

No empathy, everything is hierarchical

School only teaches you individualism

We teach you how to make money, not friends

If the President win half the votes

It means that two thirds of France didn't want him

No need to know what Sénat is

To see that the old rich people rule, uh

Nobody loves rich people, until they become rich themselves

Then they hide their money or fear to loose it

So many shitty jobs, fake doing your job

How many jobs are only useful to please our leaders ?

Fed with judgement, fed with clichés

Even though we don't know to feed ourselves, we ruin ourselves

We don't know how to handle our feelings so we hide them

'don't know how to handle our relationships so we waste them

'don't accept what we are so we're cowards

We never forgive ourselves in a world where nothing is erasable

We spit on each others, we don't know how to live together

We fight to be in the front seats in a plane flying straight to the

Crash

• Artist:Orelsan
• Album:Civilisation