Padam Padam

This air that obsesses me day and night
This air was not born today
It comes from as far back as I come
Dragged by a hundred thousand musicians

One day this air will drive me crazy
A hundred times I wanted to say why
But it cut me off
It always speaks before me
And its voice covers mine

Padam, padam, padam
It comes running behind me
Padam, padam, padam
It plays the remember game with me
Padam, padam, padam

It's an air that points at me
And I drag behind me like a strange mistake
This air that knows everything by heart

It says: Remember your loves
Remember since it's your turn
There's no reason for you not to cry
With your memories on your arms

And I see again those who remain
My twenties make the drum beat
I see gestures clashing
The whole comedy of loves
On this air that always goes

Padam, padam, padam
The I love yous of Bastille Day
Padam, padam, padam
The forevers we buy cheap
Padam, padam, padam
The do you want some by the bunch
And all that just to fall right at the street corner
On the air that recognized me

Listen to the commotion it causes me
As if all my past was passing by
You have to keep some sorrow for later
I have a whole solfeggio on this beating air
That beats like a wooden heart