Art Alexakis d'Everclear est un poète, et souvent il m'a touché droit au coeur

I close my eyes when I get too sad

I think thoughts that I know are bad

Close my eyes and I count to ten

Hope it's over when I open them

I want the things that I had before

Like a Star Wars poster on my bedroom door

I wish I could count to ten

Make everything be wonderful again

Hope my mom and I hope my dad

Will figure out why they get so mad

Hear them scream, I hear them fight

Say bad words that make me want to cry

Close my eyes when I go to bed

And I dream of angels that make me smile

I feel better when I hear them say

Everything will be wonderful someday

Promises mean everything when you're little

And the world's so big

I just don't understand how

You can smile with all those tears in your eyes

Tell me everything is wonderful now

(Na na na na na na na)

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

I go to school and I run and play

I tell the kids that it's all okay

I like to laugh so my friends won't know

When the bell rings I just don't want to go home

Go to my room and I close my eyes

I make believe that I have a new life

I don't believe you when you say

Everything will be wonderful someday

Promises mean everything when you're little

And the world is so big

I just don't understand how

You can smile with all those tears in your eyes

When you tell me everything is wonderful now

I don't want to hear you tell me everything is wonderful now

I don't want to hear you say

That I will understand someday

No, no, no, no

I don't want to hear you say

We both have grown in a different way

No, no, no, no

I don't want to meet your friends

And I don't want to start over again

I just want to my life to be the same

Just like it used to be

Some days I hate everything

I hate everything

Everyone and everything

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

I don't want to hear you tell me everything is wonderful now

Everclear - Everything To Everyone

Helene m'a dit qu'elle joue beaucoup, malgré elle, même maladivement au caméléon, étant beaucoup trop sensible aux besoins des autres. Elle détecte les sentiments comme les peintres voient les couleurs, comme les postes radio captent les ondes, comme Jésus discernait l'amour ou inversement sa carence. Elle veut être une agente d'harmonie, et même si elle ne le voulait pas, elle l'est. C'est là de l'altruisme, lui ai-je dit. Ce qui était un truisme.

Cela m'a rappelé cette chanson, que j'aimais beaucoup, adolescent. Cela ne colle pas au côté victime dont il parle; mais elle relate bien, cette chanson, cette inclination presque pathologique faisant qu'on se fond aux attentes des autres, qu'on sert par extension leurs besoins.

Everclear - One Hit Wonder

“They can't hurt you unless you let them”

C'est sapri'sti'ment bon, cette chanson

Amer, râblé, brûlant : satisfaisant

Je passerais toute ma vie dans cette chanson.

I break every day
stressed out in every kind of way
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired
all I need and crave
is a loud life with the power to fade
I am living because I keep it all inside

love won't work for me
I want women who are out of my reach
all I need for sure
is a big love with the power to make more
I am living because I keep it all inside

I know I'm close to the fall
I know I'm dangerous
I'm afraid I'm going down

I blame my family,
their damage is living in me
I am sick inside and tired of my life
all I need I swear
is to go out with the power of a nightmare
I am living because I keep it all inside

I know I'm close to the fall
I know I'm dangerous
I know I'm not going down alone