Notes pour trop tard [English translation]

[Intro]

Ok, I was your age about your age ago

The passage to adult life is slippery in the twists and turns

To become a man : there is not stage, no catching up

Now, you're in big league, figure it out*

You 'll always have a sort of rage, a desire to take off

To smash the guys who play guitare on the beach**

Like every time you move out, it's a world that crubles

Listen, history is written by turning the pages (= moving on)

Listen

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 live (with it) once you're aware of it

How can you resent them? You don't understand yourself

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

Most of adult's advices are shitty clichés

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

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

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

You would waste so much time to fight

There are fights you cannot win, especially when you don't pay rent

Make peace with that, there isn't much reasons to start shit

In your own house, even when you're right***

If there is one thing you musn't question

You're smarter than before but you're still really stupid

You're too sensitive, you live everything like it's an aggression

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

Another thing you must know : you won't get laid tonight

Once you'll have understood that, it will take a burden off

Because you're way to horny and it will show

Because you're way too shy, you'll drink way too much

Learn to shut up, you'll seem mysterious

Learn to self yourself a bit better, you'll get laid in a month or two

It's always the same kind of girl you fall for

You know, the kind that makes you unhappy

So don't be a cry-baby the day she breaks your heart

On the long run, you'll spare tears (cries)

Then, you'll be afrait to commit, you'll think it's better elsewhere

Than at your's, you're gonna miss the best of what you'll already have

Basically, you sleep with your girlfriend while thinking about another

You didn't enjoy it

You think about her when you sleep with the other one once she (the gf) broke up with you

Okay

You'll never stop people from talking

And, since you're weird, maybe people will want to hit you

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

But even ripped, it still hurts to take a right uppercut

You brain and your ego function backwards (opposite to each other)

The more you try to prove something, the more it does the opposite

When you say you're not scared, (it is that) you're scared

When you say you're not hurting, (it's that) you start to feel the pain

Know your place, don't overclass yourself

You'll see, sometimes, you'll lose against guys you thought really sucked

Of course, life is unfair

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

Don't believe the insults, there is no race to be a bastard

To be a son of a bitch, no need to have a mother working the street (be a prostitute)

There is no sexuality to be a cocksucker****

The more you react, the more it seems you feel targeted, let it slip (=let it go),

The best jokes are the meanest or the stupidest

But the worst humans are cruel losers

Never pick on the weaker, keep the jokes in a corner of your mind

They'll fit in a text (song), a movie or a sketch

School is a ordeal, there isn't much to do about it

To quit is to go too early in another mess

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

A boss, your father and you mother

Three quarters of the classes are useless

But the porn actrices can testify: not doing fuck all just only keeps the hunger bay*****

You say "we'll see", you show off/act like a smartass but you're delicate

Like the screening (for STD, probably), you regret at the exam ******

School is a filter that makes everything very boring

Like the movies in black and white : the hardest is to get into it

It's harder when you apprehend it, like your first time (having sex)

I'm doing sexual metaphores since earlier because you're obesssed (about sex)*******

Tell yourself that latinas (girls) are the hottest in the world

Listen/pay attention in spanish, tell yourself in chemitry you could make drugs

Stop learning by heart stuff you didn't understand

And, in philosophy, you weren't supposed to talk about your life*******

Ah yes, no one is forcing you to smoke weed

Actually, it works better on hyperactive people

Being stoned is not even the part you prefer

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

The part you prefer, is going with your group to Jardiland*********

Steal bamboo and make a bong

You just need a passion

So listen attentively guidance consellors and do the opposite of what they'll say

Basicall, all the things where poeple say "you're wasting you time",

You have to give it all and to stick with it a long time

If you want to make films, you just need something that films

Say " I don't have the equipment or the contacts" is a weak man/ loser's thing**********

You will be told to be (the) first, never to be happy

Be first, it is for those who need a grade, whoaren't confident in themselves

Except hanging out with your crew (your group, lit. your band)

(at all cost )not missing the last rumor, the last funny thing

Honnestly, you would miss much if you left for four years

Well actually, it's important, do bullshit while it's still time *11

So you won't wake up on day at 40

Like "fuck, I'm gonna die but I never enjoyed (did things that I really liked)"*12

My family is keeping me from living, I'm going to have to leave them

To go snif/snort (drugs) in clubs, finds young girls to vampirize

I see a lot of guys like that, so, little terrorist, go have a blast *13

Go out at night even if, I admit it, won't be able to enter (in the club)*14

You'll get in the next week or the next year

Anyway, you were not gonna get laid tonight, if I must remind you

If you get in, take a picture of your cloakroom's ticket

Realize you don't know how to drink, you're dead (too drunk) too early

When it become prideful to drink a lot (lit. to take a large dose)

It's that you care about things that aren't worth it*15

Stop freaking out, if you want, go dance

The only rule of the dancefloor is : don't do things you never tried before

In case you fall asleep first at a party

To check yourself in the mirror, it's the basic thing*16 to do as soon as you've got up

Just in case

It will save you from spending the family dinners with a dick drawn on your cheek

Those family dinners where you're bored, where poeple speak really loudly

To say very banal things, but hey, we talked to each other and it's already pretty good

Sorry if there isn't only experts at your table

You fixate on other people's worst qualities and it's your worst quality

Life is made of cycles, that's why I find myself using the same words again

Don't be paranoid on who are your real friends

There is only one way to know : let time sort them out

I never regretted asking for advice or calling someone

Often, you think they are weird, it's just that the connexion is bad

The same story has a lot of versions

the best way to get out of a quarrel is to ask questions

Stop spending you life running away, anxious because of the futur

Because there is nothing to do to prepare (yourself) for the worst

Like the terrorist attacks, the bad news hit when you don't expect it

Loved one in a bit of a hurry will leave (die) before you

You'll see happy people take a call

Their face decomposes (break down) and nothing is ever the same again

There is nothing to do, except be there (for them)

Dress the wounds, change the bandages, the only remedy is time

• Artist:Orelsan
• Album:La fête est finie