Life spoiled me like nobody else
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I had it easy, I had fun
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Overdoing it like crazy without ever really paying attention
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I went around the planet ten times
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In trucks and jumbo jets
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Whether I was in Brussels or Candiac, I had a f*cking blast
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I sang in the biggest halls
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From Paris all the way to Montreal
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Of glory and its spotlights
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And one day, life catches up with us
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Like an eighteen-wheeler slamming into us
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Youth surrenders, weary, under the weight of the passing years
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Health on the slow fader, I look in vain for a glimmer
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A little ray to hang on to
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In the cracks of a faded glory
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I don't want your pity or anything else
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My life was way cooler than yours
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But my body worn to the bone
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Tonight, it's my own shadow
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That, silently, will leave the stage
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Gently setting down the mic
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Tonight, it's my own shadow
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That, silently, will leave the stage
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To cross to the other side of the curtain
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Are we at the end of the show?
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I think it's the end of the show
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Karl, is it the end of the show?
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Yeah, we're at the end of the show
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So that's that, here we are
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I'd have taken more, it's already the terminus
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I who loved life so much, it's all over
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I'm tired, I can't sing anymore
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I'm sick of it and my heart's not in it
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I've reached the very end of my road
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My star is dying, down comes the curtain
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Tonight, the old singer has played his last show
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Kill the follow spot and the lights
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No, I don't need to be lit anymore
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I'm leaving through the back door
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On tiptoe, I dive into the Universe
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I could say with a smile
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"Ok, all right, I had one hell of a ride"
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"And I've got no regret" but that's not quite true
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Because in the end, I hurt myself
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Burning my wings as much as the candle
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Often, my death instinct was stronger
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In my fallow mind, I dream of rest
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No hope on the bill, I've given my last show
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Kill the follow spot and the lights
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No, I don't need to be lit anymore
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I'm leaving through the back door
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On tiptoe, I dive into the Universe
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What's after the end of the show?
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Is it cool or is it radio silence?
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What's after the end of the show?
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Farewell, brothers in tears and blood
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Or should I say into nothingness?
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Because when the show is over
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There's nothing on the other side of the curtain
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No guided tour in a lit tunnel
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No hell or paradise, all that's f*cking bullsh*t
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That's what happens at the end of the show
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That's what happens at the end of the show
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Whether it's stellar or ordinary
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Every life ends the same way
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It's the only justice on Earth
All equal in the graveyard
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Whether it's stellar or ordinary
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Every life ends the same way
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It's the only justice on Earth
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All equal in the graveyard
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That's what happens at the end of the show
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That's what happens at the end of the show
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Whether it's stellar or ordinary
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Every life ends the same way
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That's what happens at the end of the show
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No guided tour in a lit tunnel
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That's what happens at the end of the show
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That's what happens at the end of the show
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That's what happens at the end of the show
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Kill the follow spot and the lights
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No, I don't need to be lit anymore
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I'm leaving through the back door
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For the Universe to swallow me