À l'origine [English translation]
À l'origine [English translation]
In the beginning we weren't savages
In the beginning we didn't live behind bars
At the first sign the hostages were freed
In the beginning we didn't show off
In the beginning we didn't have our legacies
With ten cents we weren't so fickle
God
God
God it's far
In the beginning we weren't slaves
In the beginning we never left our enclaves
From the beginning life was just a single obscure phrase we didn't step right on the gas
Mandarines tasted like beetroot
City-dwellers, we waited in the cave
Better
Better
Better than okay
In the beginning, we didn't have artificial limbs
In the beginning we had less idle chatter
In the beginning we had less facets
Less factory time
And no need for prophets
In the beginning chicks were nuggets
And no factory
And the puppets' dolls,
God
God
God it's far
In the beginning we didn't have the bangs
From rifles
But bangs of bed hair
In the dressing room
We didn't hide the bodies
In the beginning we weren't so sinister
In the beginning we didn't have images
The newswomen still gave massages
Better
Better
It's better than nothing
I don't know if we were the worst
And if already we were dreaming of ending it all
In the beginning everything was just a mystery
No nutcases
From the past uprising
In the beginning we didn't pass messages
To our neighbours we didn't blackmail
In the canteen there wasn't any soup
Rifles, messengers in passing,
At Colombine there's going to be carnage
At the highest peaks
There were only clouds
God
God
God it's far
In the beginning we weren't bargains
In the beginning we didn't have ukases1
In the beginning, we didn't pay attention to details
In the beginning we weren't just cattle
In the beginning we didn't take chunks out of each other
Gangling we didn't open the gashes,
Place
Place
Commonplace
In the beginning we weren't wretched
In the beginning we didn't hack the line
In the beginning there were less words
Between the lines we were a lot less stable
In the beginning there was no Mossad
Let's admit it, we weren't so bad-tempered
God
God
God it's far
In the beginning we were scared of anthrax
From the hunger, from the family of Karl Marx
In the beginning there was no Rolex
No Longines, we had powered bikes
In the beginning things weren't so complicated
In the beginning everything was just a pretext
Believe me it's next to nothing
I don't know
If we were the same
Or even worse
How will it finish
In the beginning
There was just a sigh
And no light in your wax doll
1. A decree with the force of the law in tsarist Russia. Apparently.
- Artist:Benjamin Biolay
- Album:À l'origine (2005)