Lyrics of Peur De Vivre (Featuring Deni HInes) - IAM

Peur De Vivre (Featuring Deni HInes) (original)

Sometimes you walk through life
Like you can’t do nothing right
You’re too afraid to leave too scared to die
Lost on your innocence
And got no common sense
That’s not the way life was meant to be
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may seem
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may seem
Comme une brindille dans le torrent tumultueux
Tous on cherche une amarre, tous en quête de remparts
Se dressant fièrement dans les lieux
Où tout est devenu rare
Souvent craintive, la force créatrice, elle, se rue dans l’placard
Et nos certitudes aveuglées fuient d’la lumière au bout du couloir
Quand les totems changent, le sens de nos louanges s’en retrouve avili
Mensonge et perfidie invitent les anges au bal des maudits
La foi n’est plus qu’un chien docile
Que l’ignorance dégage du pied
Faisant place nette pour le missile
Facile façon de dialoguer
Un œil au sud et l’autre au nord
Scotché à nos besaces, on trace, on fuit
Ils aiment voir que les corps regorgent de trésors et
Dès le prochain fort
Si l’ombre de la faux presse, si l’destin stresse
On stoppe les machines craignant que tôt n’apparaisse
L’heure des remords
Le chemin rotor vient alors
Des sentiers battus à tort
D’ailleurs, tous veulent lui échapper
Seulement ici ou ailleurs y’a jamais eu qu’une issue
Beaucoup insistent
Sûrs et certains que l’enjeu vaut la mise
J’espère qu’là haut y’a une place pour l’déçu
Chaque jour grossit la liste
Ballottés par les flots, tant bien que mal à nos biens on s’arrime
Croyant qu’l’acquis prolonge un peu d’nos vie, quelques-uns toujours triment
On se perche sur les cimes des monts
Comme si la mort ne frappait qu’au sol
Et là nos âmes s’immolent
Vaincues par la peur de nos propres démons
Rien n’arrête le torrent, ni privilège, ni barrière de diamant
On peut l’admettre: qu’nageant à contre courant
Là commence le tourment
On risque à chaque tournant
Au bout d’la course, une inévitable attente et juste avant y’a la vie
Et on peut y faire c’qu’on veut, tant…
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may be
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may be
Vivre n’est pas si simple
Aucune formule succincte ne l’explique
Des âmes: il y en a maintes
Qui conjuguent tout bonheur au passé simple
À force de tourner la tête pour chercher derrière
On s’enfonce dans les ronces
Et on y voit plus une simple clairière
La peur d’mourir, de perdre c’monde
Fais place à la peur d’vivre
Alors on s’livre, ivres
C’est la peur d’sourire, d'être libre
On s’bâtit des bulles, autour d’nous
On y met tout ce qui nous rassure
En s’disant qu’l’année qui vient sera dure
Et puis on trouve même plus d’oreille
Pour exprimer cette peine qu’on endure
On déambule, plus de cachets dans le sang qu’un grabataire en cure
On chute sur ce parterre en dur
Quand persuadés d’faire bien
On plante un opinel, brusquement, à ceux qu’on aime, dans les reins
Soudain, on s’aperçoit de toute l’ampleur d’la solitude scellée par nos soins
Confortée par la routine, née de l’habitude, fait de lassitude
S’lamentant sur notre manque d’aptitude à vivre l’instant, on s’projette
souvent sous d’autres latitudes
Puis on finit par s’croire victime quand on est coupable et peu docile
La prise de conscience, cela dit, est hors du domaine du possible
Arrivent les rides et l'œil s’pare de faux signes
Mais rien n’empêche les mots passés, eux aussi, de devenir fossiles
Cette bulle qui nous entoure est opaque, elle interdit les détours
C’est la confiance en nous, et nos repères, qui s'écroulèrent en ces tours
Je viens en c’jour pour exposer la nature de celui qui va là: أشهد أن لا إله
إلا الله
If you could have one wish
Tell me would you exist
In the life that you are living now
Or would you back it up
And look for better luck
Runaway from your reality
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may be
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may be

(translation)

Sometimes you walk through life
Like you can't do nothing right
You're too afraid to leave too scared to die
Lost on your innocence
And got no common sense
That's not the way life was meant to be
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may seem
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may seem
Like a twig in the rushing torrent
We're all looking for a mooring, we're all looking for ramparts
Standing proud in the scene
Where everything has become rare
Often fearful, the creative force rushes into the closet
And our blinded certainties flee from the light at the end of the corridor
When the totems change, the meaning of our praise becomes debased
Falsehood and treachery invite the angels to the ball of the accursed
Faith is no more than a docile dog
That ignorance clears from the foot
Clearing the way for the missile
Easy way to chat
One eye to the south and the other to the north
Glued to our saddlebags, we trace, we flee
They like to see bodies full of treasures and
From the next fort
If the shadow of false press, if fate stresses
We stop the machines fearing that sooner will appear
Time for remorse
The rotor path then comes
Wrongly beaten paths
Besides, everyone wants to escape him
Only here or elsewhere there's only ever been one way out
Many insist
Sure and certain that the stake is worth the bet
I hope that up there there is a place for the disappointed
Every day grows the list
Tossed about by the waves, somehow to our goods we anchor
Believing that the acquired prolongs a little of our lives, some always toil
We perch on the peaks of the mountains
As if death only knocks on the ground
And there our souls are immolated
Overcome by fear of our own demons
Nothing stops the torrent, no privilege, no diamond barrier
We can admit it: that swimming against the current
There begins the torment
We risk at every turn
At the end of the race, an inevitable wait and just before there is life
And you can do whatever you want with it, so long...
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may be
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may be
Living is not so simple
No succinct formula explains it
Souls: there are many
Who combine all happiness in the past simple
By dint of turning your head to look behind
We sink into the brambles
And you see more than just a clearing
The fear of dying, of losing this world
Make room for the fear of living
So we surrender, drunk
It's the fear of smiling, of being free
We build bubbles around us
We put everything that reassures us
By saying that the coming year will be hard
And then we even find more ears
To express this pain that we endure
We walk around, more pills in the blood than a bedridden man in treatment
We fall on this hard bed
When persuaded to do well
We plant an opinel, suddenly, to those we love, in the kidneys
Suddenly, we realize the full extent of the loneliness sealed by our care
Comforted by routine, born of habit, made of weariness
Lamenting our lack of ability to live in the moment, we project ourselves
often in other latitudes
Then you end up thinking you're a victim when you're guilty and not very docile
Awareness, however, is beyond the realm of possibility.
Come the wrinkles and the eye is adorned with false signs
But nothing prevents past words, too, from becoming fossils
This bubble that surrounds us is opaque, it prohibits detours
It's our trust, and our bearings, that crumbled in these towers
I come on this day to expose the nature of the one who goes there: أشهد أن لا إله
إلا الله
If you could have one wish
Tell me would you exist
In the life that you are living now
Or would you back it up
And look for better luck
Runaway from your reality
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may be
You got to be up you got to be down
Before you can turn your life around
No matter how hard your life may be