Les monstres Lyrics English Translation by Orelsan
There’s the one who talks in my head, who spends all his time criticizing
If I like something, he hates it, until nothing makes me feel alive
There’s the one who only wants ecstasy, who wants me to never be satisfied
What he hates is when things are flat, so he tries to make me spiral
There’s the one who says everything was better, for whom the Earth has stopped turning
Who says there’s nothing when you’re old, who wants me to drown in the hourglass
There’s the one who wants to make me feel guilty, for whom everything is always my fault
The one who wants me to become somebody, even if it means I become somebody else
I spend my life running from my monsters
So I panic when the night falls
There must be a reason
I don’t dare ask the question
I’m too afraid of the answer
When the night falls
I see the shadows, I hear them
Since I was little, until now
They follow me everywhere, I’m always
In a headlong rush
I see the shadows, I hear them
Since I was little, until now
They follow me everywhere, I’m always
In a headlong rush
There’s the one who trusts no one, who says humans are wolves
So he does everything to make me isolate myself, then he wraps me up and suffocates me
There’s the one who wants me to look only at her, who changes her face every day
She just wants to get inside my head, until I forget all about love
There’s the one who compares me to everyone, who wants me to always be on top of it all
He wants to inflate me so I rise up, when I’m at the top, he pushes me
But the worst is the bad one who looks like me, who does everything to replace me
So I must never lose my focus because he’ll always be there, hidden
I spend my life running from monsters
So I panic when the night falls
There must be a reason
I don’t dare ask the question
I’m too afraid of the answer
When the night falls
I see the shadows, I hear them
Since I was little, until now
They follow me everywhere, I’m always
In a headlong rush
I see the shadows, I hear them
Since I was little, until now
They follow me everywhere, I’m always
In a headlong rush
I can stop running ’cause I know she’ll be there to save me, yeah
I’m less afraid of the future when the future is a future by her side, yeah
I can stop running ’cause I know she’ll be there to save me, yeah
I’m less afraid of the future when the future is a future by her side, yeah