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