Notes pour trop tard [English translation]

[Intro]

Okay, I was your age about your age ago

The transition to adulthood is slippery in the corners

Becoming a man: there is no training, no retake

Now you're in the deep end of the pool, guess how to swim

You'll always have some kind of rage, wanting to go out to sea

To beat down the guys who play guitar on the beach

It's like every time you move house, it's a world that falls apart

Look, history is written by turning the pages

Listen to

I took a few notes

[Unique Verse]

If you feel like no one understands you, it's because no one understands you

It's easier to cope once you figure that out

How can you blame them? You don't understand yourself either

Often alone with your problems, often you're the problem

Most of adult typo are shitty clichés

Because they didn't understand the game, but they follow the rules

So don't listen to your parents too much, just pretend you do

They are not all-knowing, you're their first child

You'd be wasting so much time fighting

There's fights you can't win, especially when you don't pay the rent

Just accept it, there's very little reason to mess around

In your own house, even when you're right

If there's one thing you don't have to question

You're smarter than you used to be, but you're still a dumb ass

You're too sensitive, you experience everything like an aggression

Ask a madman if he's crazy and you'll see what he answers

Another thing you need to know is that you're not gonna have sex tonight

Once you figure that out, it'll take a load off your hands

Because you're way too hungry and it's gonna show.

Because you're far too shy, you're going to drink far too much

Learn to shut up, you'll look mysterious

Learn to sell yourself a little better, you'll have sex in a month or two

It's always the same kind of girl you fall in love with

You know, the kind of girl that makes you unhappy

So don't be a crybaby on the day she breaks your heart

Over the long haul, you save yourself a lot of tears

Then you'll be afraid to get involved, you'll think it's better elsewhere

Than at home, you're gonna miss the best part of what you already have

Basically, you have sex with your girlfriend thinking about another girl

You didn't like it

You think about her when you have sex with the other girl once she left you

Okay

You'll never stop people from talking

And, since you're a weirdo, maybe you'll manage to get people to beat you up

You can do push-ups, you can learn how to fight

But even muscular, it still hurts to take a punch

Your brain and your ego are working backwards

The more you try to prove something, the less you succeed

When you say you're not scared, it's because you're scared

When you say you're not in pain, it's because you start to feel the pain

Know your height, don't overrate yourself

You'll see, sometimes you'll lose against guys you thought were crap

Of course, life is unfair

If you don't like laws, don't be a fucking judge

Don't believe the insults, you can be a bastard whatever the race

To be a son of a bitch, you don't have to have a hooker for a mother

you don't have to be gay to be a bugger

The more you react, the more it looks like you're being targeted, let it slide

The best jokes are the meanest or the dumbest

But the worst human beings are cruel losers

Don't pick on the weak, keep the jokes in a corner of your head

It'll fit into a text, a movie or a sketch

School's a pain in the ass, not much you can do about it

Stopping means leaving too soon for another misery

Throw your school bag in the air, you'll have the weight of society on your shoulders,

A boss, your father and mother

Three-quarters of the lessons are useless

But the porn actresses are witnesses to it: skipping school does nothing but delay the end

You say we'll see, you play the smart guy, but you're fragile

Like screening, you're sorry about the test

School is a filter that makes everything very boring

Like black-and-white movies: the hardest part is getting into them

It's harder when you're apprehensive, like your first time

I've been using sexual metaphors all the way because you only think about that

Think of the latinas as the hottest chicks in the world

Listen in Spanish, think about chemistry, you could do drugs

Stop memorizing things you didn't understand

And in philosophy, you weren't supposed to tell your life story

Oh, yeah, no one's forcing you to smoke weed

Actually, it works better on hyperactive people

Being stoned isn't even your favorite part of it

When you're high, all you do is pretend to be clean

The part you like best is to go with your gang to a garden centre

To steal bamboo and make a bong

You just need a passion

So listen carefully to the guidance counsellors and do the opposite of what they'll say

Basically, all the stuff that people say,"You're wasting your time"

You need to get really into it and hang in there for a long time

If you want to make movies, you just need a recording device

Saying,"I don't have any gear or no contact,"is a victim thing

We'll tell you to be first, never to be happy

First, it's for those who need a grade, who have no self-confidence

You're at the point in your life where you can become whatever you want to be

The same time where it's the hardest to know what you want

Besides hanging out with your crew

Especially not missing the last rumor, the last funny thing

Honestly, you wouldn't miss much if you left for four years

Whatever, it's important, do shit while there's still time

So you won't wake up one day when you're 40

Like,"Shit, I'm gonna die, but never had real fun

My family won't let me live, I'm gonna have to leave them

To snort snow in a nightclub, find some young girls to vampirize"

I see a lot of them, so, you little terrorist boy, go have a ball

Come out in the evening even though, I confess, you're gonna get flunked

You'll be back next week or the year after that

You know, you weren't gonna fuck tonight if I have to remind you

If you're coming home, take a picture of your locker room ticket

Realize that you don't know how to drink, you're getting wasted too soon

When it gets to be a pride to gulp big shots

That means you are getting worked up over nothing

Stop freaking out, if you want to, go dance

The only rule on the track is, don't do things you've never tried before

If you ever fall asleep first in a party

Lookin' into the mirror, that's the basics as soon as you get up

it might spare you

A family dinner with a cock drawn on your cheek

Those family dinners where you're bored, where they talk really loudly

To say some very banal things, we're already talking to each other and it's not bad

Truths are complicated, clichés are stable

Sorry if not everyone around the table is an expert

You can't get over other people's faults, and that's your worst flaw

Life is are cycles, that's why I use the same words

Don't be paranoid about who your real friends are

There's only one way to find out: let time sort it out

I've never regretted asking for advice or calling someone

Often you think they're weird, it's just that the reception is poor

The same story has a lot of versions

The best way to get out of a mess is to ask questions

Stop spending your life running away, anxious about the future

Because there's nothing you can do to prepare for the worst

Like bombings, bad news strikes when you don't expect them

Some family members in a bit of a hurry will leave before you do

You'll see happy people taking a call

Their faces break down and nothing is ever the same

There's nothing to do but be there

Dressing wounds, changing bandages, the only cure is time

• Artist:Orelsan
• Album:La fête est finie