I must keep quiet for a long, long time
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Hang around up front, out back
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To shiver, to feel
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To have something to say
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My friend, I've got nothing to offer you but this silence that'll make you flee
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Or this overloaded word that no longer knows where to perch
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The more you ask, the more you insist
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The more I hide, the more I resist
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And I can read in your eyes
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That you remember why we barely meet
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You'd forgotten, now it comes back
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I'm an old man, I'm a kid
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I drink water, I've got no scoop
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And when we get too close, I cut
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You say everything dances, even awkwardness
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Even hate, even drifting
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That everybody dances loneliness
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The state of siege, the state of emergency
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I must love for a long, long time
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Dead and buried loves
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See us still all the time everywhere
And make up dates for myself
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I must not understand for a long time
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Why nobody knew how to give in
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And hold the other in their arms
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To listen to what won't come out
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And blow up the mirrors, blow my memory apart
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I know, it doesn't look like it
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I need to laugh, laugh at myself
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I need anonymous letters accusing me of every crime
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And at the dawn of my life, to've made lots of enemies
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You say everything dances, even awkwardness
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Even hate, even drifting
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That everybody dances loneliness
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The state of siege, the state of emergency
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You say everything dances, even awkwardness
_____
Even hate, even drifting
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That everybody dances loneliness
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The state of siege, the state of emergency
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I need the fight for a long, long while
The stroll and the quarrel
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I need to explore my era
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And everything it sparks
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Watch my contemporaries
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Who sublimate their sorrows
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Eye the mystery and the heroism
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Of dancing under capitalism
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You tell me everything dances, even shame
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That climbs, that climbs, even absence
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That everything dances, that everything dances
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You say everything dances, even awkwardness
_____
Even hate, even drifting
_____
That everybody dances loneliness
_____
The state of siege, the state of emergency
_____
You say everything dances, even awkwardness
_____
Even hate, even drifting
_____
That everybody dances loneliness
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The state of siege, the state of emergency