Mes amis Franck (guitare) et Séb (batterie) formaient un duo progressif dans la veine de Dream Theater et Racer X. Quant à moi, c’est dans la veine de Symphony X que je leur ai pensé cette chanson. Elle leur collait si bien que le groupe a failli porter le même nom. Ou l’a porté, je ne sais plus trop.

Vous remarquerez sûrement une variation de thème avec les deux couplets du milieu qui se veulent plus sombres. Sûrement un reste d’influence psychédélique venu du fin fond des années 70.

I’d never seen shades of bright

Like I wrote the thousand tears

From souls of spiritual beggars

May these cries let me the time to be might

Winter queens burn in the night like candles

 

Colored souls in the twilight

Heading for my melodies

Have no horns but little wings

May desires let me the time to write

How came poetry and other stories

 

        Just keep the feeling

        In the heat of the moment

        ‘n twilight from shades of bright

        Just keep the feeling

        Falling into promises

        Reborning from your ashes

        Just keep the feeling

        And don’t break it down

        Don’t break it down !

 

« Join us in the dark side… »

 

Like a part of darkness

Possessed by the virus

We sold our souls

For Rock ‘n Roll

Long live damned souls

And long live Rock’n Roll

 Peoples are crying

As we’re dying

Dying for the kings

 

Send us postcards in Hell

We breakfast with Devil

See you on stage

Or see you in Hell

Chained under evil

We can’t turn the page

Peoples are crying

As we’re dying

As we’re dying for… the kings !

 

« A light shines in the darkness… »

 

Do you remember the past

Now as far as pure rain

We didn’t know any despair

And love was made without anyone shame

Say me how I breathe without access to air

 

I don’t know what is a crime

I only stand on the stair

That leads to freedom and here

Listen I hear something that’s like a rime

A moonlight symphony for a nightmare

 

        Just keep the feeling

        In the heat of the moment

        ‘n twilight from shades of bright

        Just keep the feeling

        Falling into promises

        Reborning from your ashes

        Just keep the feeling

        And don’t break it down

        Don’t break it down !

Illustration : Daniel C. Muriot, tous droits réservés.