It only happens to others
We don't get it till it hits us
We know what's going on elsewhere but we still dare complain
Put things in perspective, close your eyes and picture yourself
You'll see how beautiful your life is!
Close your eyes and picture your life
In those countries where politicians wear fatigues
Where freedom of speech is a conspiracy
Where the dollar civilizes with cannons
Where you can die from a simple fever
Where epidemics roam off-leash
Do you really think you'd survive the heatwave
In those lands where you spend two months getting a tan
They burn all year long!
Picture your life without drinking water
A shower on rainy days, no food on the table
Picture yourself in a hospital
With an incurable disease, an illness that calls you guilty
Picture yourself locked up like Natascha Kampusch
Or burned like Mama Galledou on the bus
Open your eyes now
And before cursing life, think from now on!
It only happens to others
We don't get it till it hits us
We know what's going on elsewhere but we still dare complain
Put things in perspective, close your eyes and picture yourself
You'll see how beautiful your life is!
Close your eyes and picture yourself somewhere in Africa
In a village made of earth, under a blazing sun
Picture the hot heavy air, that desert stretch
That skinny herd of goats, your hand and that stick
Picture that long walk you have to make
So your animals can graze and cool off
Those 30 kilometers to walk
Those cattle thieves and their Kalashnikovs who shoot without thinking
Picture Madagascar and its mountains of trash
Picture your 8-year-old self with bare feet
Picture your hands in the garbage
For a piece of bread but you get used to it
Picture Paris and its ring road
Somewhere under a bridge not far from the traffic
Picture yourself in a filthy sleeping bag
Fighting the cold, fighting the hunger
Now picture yourself in your car stuck in traffic
The man slowly leaves his blanket, the man has your face
Tell me how you feel, do you look at him differently?
Before cursing life, think from now on!
It only happens to others
We don't get it till it hits us
We know what's going on elsewhere but we still dare complain
Put things in perspective, close your eyes and picture yourself
You'll see how beautiful your life is!
Karl, picture yourself without music
Health wrecked by rotating shifts
The round trips to the unemployment office
Saïd, picture yourself without this success
Struggling, just minimum wage
Prisoner of that brick tower
Picture yourself without Sniper
Me without Psy 4 and those good moments others never know!
Picture our lives without all that
That's why, let's thank God for all that
Sorry for the days when I complain
The days when I see only me, my nose and no further!
Sorry for every time I blew up my problems
For every time I made the world spin around me
Close your eyes just one second
And your place in all that
Let's realize how lucky we are
It only happens to others
We don't get it till it hits us
We know what's going on elsewhere but we still dare complain
Put things in perspective, close your eyes and picture yourself
You'll see how beautiful your life is!
It only happens to others
We don't get it till it hits us
We know what's going on elsewhere but we still dare complain
Put things in perspective, close your eyes and picture yourself
You'll see how beautiful your life is!