Refuge Lyrics in English Petit K

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I'm not dumber than anybody

I don't really have

self-confidence

Sometimes I say

it's my fault

to calm the debates

I've got plenty of buddies

and I love making them laugh

But when morale

walks out the door

then it's harder to tell them

I'm pretty sociable

though a bit solitary

I think Paris is awesome

but I admit

I quickly run out of air there

I prefer the height

of the mountains

the color of the sea

but if you come with me

I'll never say no

to a drink

I think a lot

maybe even too much

I anticipate every move

I'm not much into improv

I picture a plan A

a plan B, then a plan C

even though I know

that all this only

drags my thoughts down

I'm not very comfortable

with my emotions

I've got a heart of embers

but a boy's modesty

long swept under the rug

everything I ever felt

until the day it all resurfaced

twice as strong

twice as bad

I hate conflicts

they make me run like the wind

I withdraw into myself

just like kids do so well

so hiding in my room

seeing nobody anymore

there I'll write to understand

how people work

when storms, deluges

come crashing on the ridge

I've found my refuge there

my roof over my head

the shelter that isolates me

the azimuth on my map

music will be my compass

when from my life

I stray

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SONG MEANING

Refuge is Petit K’s open diary set to music. Line after line he admits his quirks: shaky self-confidence, a love of making friends laugh, a mind that plans A, B, and C before breakfast. Although he enjoys bustling Paris, he secretly craves mountain peaks and ocean blues. This constant push-and-pull between social butterfly and lone wolf creates an emotional storm that he often sweeps under the carpet.

When those hidden feelings finally surge back ‘twice as strong, twice as bad’, Petit K escapes to the safest place he knows – his room, pen, and melodies. Writing becomes a way to decode how people work, and music turns into a personal compass that guides him through life’s tempests. Refuge is both confession and comfort, reminding listeners that it is okay to step back, breathe, and let a song shelter the heart.

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