[Orelsan - Shonen/ English Translation]

[Unique verse]
I made mistakes and I’ll make others, I just hope it won’t be the same ones
What’s the point in writing texts if I can’t tell people I love them?
How many other deadly orations, before saying it, before battles already lost?
Wars with no winners, it was just a pastime to begin with
But time has passed, I was doing that just to make them laugh
It was just during parties, it was well-prepared improvs
But, when there's buzz, shit goes down: hyenas, sons of polemicist
I just released my first album, I'm into politics, I’m sad and alone, huh
Thanks to my exes, huh, thanks for the crash-tests, huh
I’d enjoy less what I have without your help, huh
Thanks for spliting with me, huh, I mean, really, I mean
I wouldn’t have changed if you haven’t told me to do so, huh
Modern love, sublime thunder, ridiculous, honest in my poems
Where I come from, I just wanted a bit of sun, to be the hero of my own Shonen
New York, the venue is full, shit, Tokyo,the venue is full, shit
Paris, thanks, thanks, I’m booking Bercy for a full week
Usually, I only talk about my defeats 'cause we only learn through failure
Orel and Gringe, Ablaye and Skread, I didn’t like the game, I've changed the rules
Truth for only remedy when the friendship wounds get infected
I've lost friends, they got lost alone, you want friends: welcome them with their troubles
I refuse sums of money, I refuse checks with lots of figures, like six or seven
It's my integrity that I'm buying, that’s what I call “The price of dreams”, huh
It's for those childhood dreams that we provided ourselves with the means
I need something bigger than me, need some soul, I’m just a son of pagans
Everything gets transformed, nothing is lost, I haven't done only things I'm proud of
I can improve myself, I don't want to backtrack
I was all alone, we are thousands
Soon, you will all forget me, sorry but I’ll have to leave
Just know that we had a blast, yesterday was yesterday, today I cancel my debts, huh
I won’t trade what I have for eternal youth, huh
We did what we did like we did, but we did it, huh
Everything gets transformed, nothing is lost, shadow and light