KEPT INSIDE LYRICS

1. Crossing A Desert

You struggle to extend my half life
While I crave only for freedom
But my days are worthless, my nights are dreamless
I'm bound to this bed, crossing a desert

We keep fighting this battle
With no aim at all
Ashes of memories
Scattered with apathy is all that remains

A hopeless heart barely beats
A broken man can't be

Persisting to breathe the same air
Fanning the fire that's burning me

Can't see the puppet below my mind
Can't see the strings, this flesh's no longer mine

We keep fighting this battle
With no aim at all

A hopeless heart barely beats
A broken man can't be
Draw the curtains
The world looks better in the dark

Is that what you call respect?
Is that what you call dignity?
I've become nothing more
Than a locked-in ghost
Is what you call dignity?
I'm nothing more than a locked-in ghost

What you need isn't what I want
Set me free

Feel no guilt for setting me free
Set me free

You can't kill me I'm already dead
The choice is mine
You can't kill me I'm already dead
Set me free

2. Daytime Sleepwalker

In this quiet town, a random man lives
Away from troubles, away from all of it
After a day of work he needs to rest
Thanks for the brainwash, everyday

He's not a genius, though he knows how to read
He's been taught to listen and to eat
He can even swallow every word through his eyes and ears
Thanks for the brainwash, everyday

Looking for the best story to tell them all
To sell as much as possible
Looking for another tarnishing scandal
To spread as much as possible

Now all you can hear is my deep voice
You slowly slide into a deep sleep, don't fight
See, the anesthesia isn't painful

(Rationality belongs to the cool observer
But because of the stupidity of the average man
He follows not reason but faith
The naive faith of the proletarian requires necessary illusion
And emotionally potent over simplifications
Which have to be provided by myth makers
To keep the ordinary person on the right course)

The truth is twisted again
Leading to fear and confusion

They create shock with hasty conclusions
Don't give in to their power of persuasion
They create shock with hasty conclusions
Don't fail to control your own perception

3. In Your Eyes

You created a paranoid world on your own
Alone, with a bitter taste of anger
Fed by all the scorn you've undergone
Holding a time bomb they made bigger

Isolated and fearful rat
Prepared, ready to pull the trigger
And put an end to this, you've been waiting for it
At last, your sweetest dreams come true

Allowed to keep and bear the fear inside
Enabling the death toll to rise

Torn are the souls of many brothers,
Many friends, many lovers,
Blind to their pain, deaf to their cries,
Tears in their graves, death in your eyes

So be safe and be brutal
No matter what, just defend yourself
The gun under the pillow
To chase your nightmares away

Terror makes this circle of violence go round
Chicken, did the egg come first?

To the library, to the battlefield
The flame consuming you is gonna burn them down
Distrust spreads the plague

Saw it on the screen
Now you want it for real
Frightened, you fight them
Sniping to kill your pain

4. Comme L'air

[Instrumental]

5. Red

[feat. DY]

Rejetés car le discours semble plein de haine
Mais sommes-nous écoutés ?
L'onde qui nous fait tant vibrer est censurée

Your voice was strong
When our screams weren't loud enough
Your words were wise
But all they did was laugh at us and despise us

Nos écrits, c'est pas d'l'attaque mais du self-defence
T'y as consacré ta vie, on n'oublie pas cette belle dépense
C'est pour ceux qui militent jusqu'à leur limite
T'étais loin des délits de l'élite, des récits qu'on évite
Pour toi on restera entre l'art et l'arme
Entre lettres et lutte, avant l'heure de chute

Nous rêvions d'un monde qui encourage la créativité
Et qui n'enterre pas la diversité

You showed so much passion
You tried to give us perspectives

Your voice was strong
When our screams weren't loud enough
Your words were wise
But all they did was laugh at us and despise us

The keys to unity were in your hands
But couldn't open the mind of the ignorants

No, we haven't forgotten
And we will always remember
Your nerve will be respected forever
No, we haven't forgotten

Our red guardian
An outstanding man
No, we haven't forgotten

6. Game Over

Here we go, here we go again
Ready to get insane
Let's play our favorite game
And drown our fucking brains
Here we go again
No gun, no knife, no rope, no flame
This is how we kill the pain
And escape into another cage

My evanescent wings grow, once more
The higher I fly, the harder I crash

My chains always bring me down
I fall down in this spiral

We walk slowly towards
Our unavoidable fate
Nothing good may come out of this world
Where happiness is only drinkable

It's half past a bottle o'clock
We've reached a state in which nothing seems impossible
But reality is like a rock
Coming back right to your face, ripping your soul

My evanescent wings grow, once more
The higher I fly, the harder I crash
There is no point to pretend
This is how our torments end

Wow that's awful, where did you get that?
Who cares? Welcome to wonderland!

Everybody get your seat belt loosely fastened
Because the ride may last quite a long time
This will be our home tonight
Let's go for our daily descent into death

The process of self-destruction is almost complete
Can my alarm clock wake me up from it?

We no longer make the rules of this game
We've failed to bury our torments, game over

7. Drive

At ease
Hidden in the dreary shadow of a fake happiness
Living to own,
Forgetting to be.

"Day after day" had trapped you
In its prison of comfort

Your reason never loses measure and control
This life has become an early death

And now you can't remember the face
Of your old friend the "day by day"

Passenger of your own train, staring out the window
No driver inside, just following the line

Confined and suffocating
Step out of your shell and breathe in

Passenger of your own train, staring out the window
No driver inside

You are your choices
Your smiles, your sorrows
You are shaped by your own mistakes

Sometimes you rise, often you fall
But dreams aren't always unreachable

Don't fear your tears, face your fears
Fly, jump, dive, burn, explode
Tremble with joy
As you climb to the top of the mountain
Of your senses







KEPT INSIDE LYRICS