A Closing Word (feat. James)

A Closing Word (feat. James) - Men I Trust/James

Composed by：Dragos Chiriac/Jessy Caron/Vincent Laquerre

What is it to be a man

Is it to be romantic

Fueling it's own nostalgia

With dreams of death in battle

Submitting it's body to hard privations

Gaining the curse of martyrdom

Leaving this world in a blind and passionate fashion

In the arms of a consuming mistress

Stupidly jumping off the schlafen berg

Dying on a piano of an unexpected but inevitable sickness

With a still dripping quill in the left hand

Depicting unbalanced emotions in sheet music

A deforming lens

Aimed at a small fraction of the human catalogue

Or in the case of our contemporaries

Depicting a long

Over exploited duality

Between good and evil

As if the choice was a puzzling dilemma

Attacking a God killed over three centuries ago

Counter facing the camera you borrowed money to pay for

Implying references to esoteric Delphies

Creating a non existing mystery around oneself

What is it to be a woman

Being sad on a beach

A long monologue glorifying impossible loves

Smoking cigarettes with boredom

Enacting it's own death in a car accident

Maybe quit it all at 27

Impressing some naive teenagers

Who can't but think that suffering is deep

Clearly there must be some other themes

Who please both to mind and body

While petitioning for genius and greatness

Maybe give a listen to Fauré and Bach

To the Greeks

Mill

And ironically the great Goethe

They are all brilliant men who worked hard

Still they can't be placed above manly affairs

Because concerning those

No one ever saw nor heard

They remain interesting as photographs

Which depict some of many human features