jeudi 29 décembre 2022

Origine

Persans, gouttières ou mistigris,
Si la nuit tous les chats sont gris,
Les hommes aussi sont tous égaux
Quand tombe cette chappe indigo.
Ciment de poussière et d'ennui
Qui descend autour de minuit
Sur les pavés, les quais de gare,
Les arrivées, les cases-départ
Des jeux de l'oie perdus d'avance
Quand les dés roulent sans qu'on les lance...
Sans quand les lance...

On fouille aussi dans les poubelles
Des souvenirs, on se rappelle
Des princesses et des cendrillons,
Des éphémères, des papillons
Qui tournaient dans les abat-jours
De nos palais de rois d'un jour.
On se bat dans les terrains vagues.
Eux font leurs griffes, on fait des tags
Et des marelles, mais pas de chance,
La boîte tombe pas où on la lance,
Où on la lance,
Où on la lance...

Chat des palaces, voleurs, voyous,
Des favelas ou du bayou,
Qu'on soit Mozart ou John Coltrane,
C'est toujours le même blues qu'on traîne.

Faudrait, sur la carte du Tendre,
Des Touaregs pour nous attendre,
Quelques repères et des sherpas,
Des guides, des boussoles, des compas
Ou des Livingstone dans nos jungles,
Moins de foin, un peu plus d'épingles,
Des camions entiers d'amoureuses,
De mygales, de mante-religieuses,
Que nos appels aux ambulances,
Elles les entendent quand on les lance,
Quand on les lance,
Quand on les lance.

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mardi 20 décembre 2022

Lysergine

Teletubbies

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samedi 17 décembre 2022

Empires

I'd like to sayA few wordsIn defense of our countryWhose people aren't badNor are they meanNow, the leaders we haveWhile they're the worst that we've hadAre hardly the worstThis poor world has seen

Let's turn history's pages, shall we?

Take the Caesars, for exampleWhy, with the first few of themThey were sleeping with their sister, stashing little boys in swimming pools, and burning down the cityAnd one of 'em, one of 'em appointed his own horse to be Counsel of the EmpireThat's like vice president or somethingThat's not a very good example right now, is it?

But here's one:

Spanish InquisitionThat's a good onePut people in a terrible positionI don't even like to think about itWell, sometimes I like to think about it

Just a few wordsIn defense of our countryWhose time at the topCould be coming to an endNow, we don't want their loveAnd respect at this point's pretty much out of the questionBut in times like theseWe sure could use a friend

HitlerStalin

Men who need no introduction

King Leopold of Belgium, that's rightEveryone thinks he's so greatWell, he owned the CongoHe tore it up tooTook the diamondsTook the silverTook the goldYou know what he left 'em with?

Malaria

You know, a president once said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"Now it seems like we're supposed to be afraidIt's patriotic, in factColor-codedWhat we supposed to be afraid of?Why, of being afraidThat's what terror means, doesn't it?That's what it used to mean

You know, it pisses me off a little that this Supreme Court's gonna outlive meCouple young Italian fellas and a brother on the Court now tooBut I defy you, anywhere in the world, to find me two Italians as tight ass as the two Italians we gotAnd as for the brotherWell, Pluto's not a planet anymore either

The end of an empireIs messy at bestAnd this empire's endingLike all the restLike the Spanish ArmadaAdrift on the seaWe're adrift in the land of the braveAnd the home of the free

GoodbyeGoodbyeGoodbye

Goodbye

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