Après moi

Xavier-Aurelien Racine — Xavier-Aurélien Racine. 23/11/2022

I—uh—must go on standing
You can’t break that which isn’t yours
I—uh—must go on standing
I’m not my own, it’s not my choice

La-da-da, da-da-da

Be afraid of the lame
They’ll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They’ll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They’ll inherit your blood
Après moi, le déluge
After me comes the flood

I—uh—must go on standing
You can’t break that which isn’t-isn’t yours-yours
I—uh—must go on standing
I’m not my own, it’s not my choice

La-da-da, da-da-da
Ah, uh, uh, ah, uh
La.. da.. da…
La-da-da

Be afraid of the lame
They’ll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They’ll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They’ll inherit your blood
Après moi, le déluge
After me comes the flood

Be afraid of the lame
They’ll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They’ll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They’ll inherit your blood
Après moi, le déluge
After me the flood

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Be afraid of the lame
They’ll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They’ll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They’ll inherit your blood
Après moi, le déluge
After me comes the flood …the flood
Peter Gabriel

15/11/202203/05/2024

Mother Of Violence

Walking the street with her naked feet
So full of rhythm, but I can’t find the beat
Snapping her heels, clicking her toes
Everybody knows just where she goes

Fear, fear, she’s the mother of violence
Making me tense to watch the way she breed
Fear, she’s the mother of violence
You know self-defense is all you need
It’s getting hard to breathe
It’s getting so hard to believe
To believe in anything at all

Mouth all dry, eyes bloodshot
Data stored on a microdot
Kicking the cloud with my moccasin shoes
TV dinner, TV news

‘Cause fear, fear, she’s the mother of violence
Don’t make any sense to watch the way she breed
Fear, she’s the mother of violence
Making me tense to watch the way she feed
The only way you know she’s there
Is the subtle flavor in the air
Getting hard to breathe
Getting hard to believe in anything at all
But fear
Peter Gabriel

08/11/202203/05/2024

White Shadow

Ten coaches roll into the dust
Chrome windows turned to rust
Hang on inside, they know they must
Hanging on the green-backed words “In God We Trust”

No one knew if the spirit died
All wrapped to go like Kentucky Fried
Trying to read the flight of birds
Low on fuel, getting low on words

And she comes out like a white shadow
She comes out like a white shadow

Each one drawn to empty spaces
Outsiders, borderline cases
It’s hard to tell black from white
When you wake up in the middle of the night

Weighted down by the absence of sound
Broken now by the cry of a hound
Looking for movement within the haze
Light can be deceptive with her rays

And she comes out like a white shadow
And she comes out like a white shadow
She comes out like a white shadow
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01/11/202203/05/2024

Fourteen Black Paintings

From the pain come the dream
From the dream come the vision
From the vision come the people
And from the people come the power
From this power come the change
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18/10/202203/05/2024

Le mas des alouettes

“-Arkan, ou es-tu?

Arkan,

Regarde cette glace.

Tu pourrais la prendre pour notre chambre.

Je la veux, cette glace.

Et le piano,

Tes soldats pourraient l’emporter.

-Mais non, elle a trop bu. Elle venait pour notre fête.

Mais…

Penser ainsi offense notre invitée

Rejoins nos amis, je reste avec elle.

-Le général…”
Pablo Tivani, Vittorio Tavani

11/10/202203/05/2024

I Griev

It was only one hour ago
It was all so different then
Nothing yet has really sunk in
Looks like it always did
This flesh and bone
It’s just the way that we had tied in
Now there’s no-one home

I grieve for you
You leave me
So hard to move on
Still loving what’s gone
They say life carries on
Carries on and on and on and on

The news that truly shocks is the empty, empty page
While the final rattle rocks its empty, empty cage
And I can’t handle this

I grieve for you
You leave me
Let it out and move on
Missing what’s gone
They say life carries on
They say life carries on and on and on

Life carries on
In the people I meet
In everyone that’s out on the street
In all the dogs and cats
In the flies and rats
In the rot and the rust
In the ashes and the dust
Life carries on and on and on and on
Life carries on and on and on

It’s just the car that we ride in
A home we reside in
The face that we hide in
The way we are tied in
As life carries on and on and on and on
Life carries on and on and on
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Or did I believe this dream?
Now I can find relief
I grieve

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04/10/202203/05/2024

More Than This

I woke up and the world outside was dark
All so quiet before the dawn
Opened up the door and walked outside
The ground was cold
I walked until I couldn’t walk anymore
To a place I’d never been
There was something stirring in the air
In front of me, I could see

More than this
More than this
So much more than this
There is something else there
When all that you had has all gone
And more than this
I stand
Feeling so connected
And I’m all there
Right next to you

It started when I saw the ship go down
I saw them struggle in the sea
And suddenly the picture disappears
In front of me
Now we’re busy making all our busy plans
On foundations built to last
But nothing fades as fast as the future
And nothing clings like the past, until we can see

More than this
More than this
So much more than this
There is something out there
More than this
It’s coming through
And more than this
I stand alone and so connected
And I’m all there
Right next to you

Oh then it’s alright
When with every day another bit falls away
Oh but it’s still alright, alright, alright
And like words together we can make some sense
Much more than this
Way beyond imagination
Much more than this
Beyond the stars
With my head so full
So full of fractured pictures
And I’m all there
Right next to you
So much more than this
There is something else there
When all that you had has all gone
And more than this
I’m alone
Feeling so connected
And I’m all there right next to you
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Not One of Us

It’s only water in a stranger’s tear
Looks are deceptive, but distinctions are clear
A foreign body and a foreign mind
Never welcome in the land of the blind

You may look like we do
Talk like we do
But you know how it is

You’re not one of us, not one of us
No, you’re not one of us
Not one of us, not one of us
No, you’re not one of us

There’s safety in numbers when you learn to divide
How can we be in if there is no outside?
All shades of opinion feed an open mind
But your values are twisted, let us help you unwind

You may look like we do
Talk like we do
But you know how it is

It’s only water
It’s only water (It’s only water)
It’s only water in a stranger’s tear

You may look like we do
Talk like we do
But you know how it is

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You’re not one of us, not one of us
No, you’re not one of us
You’re not one of us, not one of us
No, you’re not one of us

He’s not one of us
He’s not one of us
He’s not one of us
He’s not one of us
He’s not one of us
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
He’s not one of us
He’s not one of us
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
He’s not one of us
He’s not one of us
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
He’s not one of us
He’s not one of us
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
He’s not one of us
He’s not one of us
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
He’s not one of us
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20/09/202203/05/2024

Digging in the dirt

Something in me, dark and sticky
All the time it’s getting strong
No way of dealing with this feeling
Can’t go on like this too long

This time you’ve gone too far
This time you’ve gone too far
This time you’ve gone too far
I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you
This time you’ve gone too far
This time you’ve gone too far
This time you’ve gone too far
I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you

Don’t talk back
Just drive the car
Shut your mouth
I know what you are
Don’t say nothing
Keep your hands on the wheel
Don’t turn around
This is for real
Digging in the dirt
Stay with me, I need support
I’m digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
Open up the places I got hurt

The more I look, the more I find
As I close on in, I get so blind
I feel it in my head, I feel it in my toes
I feel it in my sex, that’s the place it goes

This time you’ve gone too far
This time you’ve gone too far
This time you’ve gone too far
I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you
This time you’ve gone too far
This time you’ve gone too far
This time you’ve gone too far
I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you

I’m digging in the dirt
Stay with me I need support
I’m digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
To open up the places I got hurt

Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
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13/09/202203/05/2024

Moribund the Burgermeister

Caught in the chaos in the market square
I don’t know what, I don’t know why, but something’s wrong down there
Their bodies twistin’ and turnin’ in a thousand ways
The eyes all rollin’ round and round into a distant gaze

Ah, look at that crowd!
Some are jumping up in the air – say, “We’re drowning in a torrent of blood!”
Others going down on their knees, seen a saviour come out of the mud

Oh, Mother! It’s eating out my soul
Destroying law and order, I’m going to lose control
What can I do to stop this plague, spread by sight alone
Just a glimpse and then a quiver, then they shiver to the bone

Ah, look at them go!
Bunderschaft, you are going daft? Better seal off the castle grounds
“This is Moribund, the Burgermeister, I’m gonna keep this monster down
Somebody sent the subversive element; going to chase it out of down.”

No-one will tell what all this is about
But I will find out
I will find out
I will find out

This thing’s outrageous, I tell you on the level
It’s really so contagious must be the work of the devil
You better go now, pick up the pipers and tell them to play
Seems the music keeps them quiet, there is no other way

Ah, close the doors!
“We’ve tried potions and waxen dolls, but none of us could find any cures,”
Mother please, is it just a disease, that has them breaking all my laws
Check if you can disconnect the effect and I’ll go after the cause
[Post-Chorus]
No-one will tell what all this is about
But I will find out
I will find out
I will find out

Mother, you know your son
When I say I will, I will
They’ll be sorry
I’ll make sure they’re sorry
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Passion

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Here Comes the Flood

When the night shows
The signals grow on radios
All the strange things
They come and go as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
Still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There’s no point in direction we cannot even choose a side

I took the old track
The hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
They were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
And as the nail sunk in the cloud the rain was warm and soaked the crowd
[Chorus]
Lord, here comes the flood
We’ll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent, in any still alive
It’ll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you’re running dry

When the flood calls
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You’re a thousand minds, within a flash
Don’t be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there’s only you and me
And if we break before the dawn they’ll use up what we used to be

Lord, here comes the flood
We’ll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent, in any still alive
It’ll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you’re running dry

Drink up, dreamers, you’re running dry
Peter Gabriel

16/08/202203/05/2024

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Solsbury hill

Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing stretching every nerve
Had to listen had no choice

I did not believe the information
(I) just had to trust imagination
My heart going boom boom boom
“Son,” he said “Grab your things,
I’ve come to take you home.”
[?]

To keep in silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Though my life was in a rut
‘Til I thought of what I’d say
Which connection I should cut

I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom boom
“Hey” he said “Grab your things
I’ve come to take you home.”
(Ay, back home.)

When illusion spin her net
I’m never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me

Today I don’t need a replacement
I’ll tell them what the smile on my face meant
My heart going boom boom boom
“Hey” I said “You can keep my things,
they’ve come to take me home.”
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