Desert room (Music & Lyrics by Thomas Seguin ; Arrangement by Yann Quételard)

Walking down in a desert room
There’s no one there not enough room
I can’t take on my fucking destiny
Walking down in a desert room
And I feel so crab and I feel so cool
Am I just unreal ?

Chorus :

Si tu me reviens
(If you come back to me)
Allez viens on se souvient
(Come on Let’s recall)
Si tu veux bien
(If you wish so)
On se rappellera de tous ces lendemains
(we’ll remind of all these tomorrows)

Her name was Sahra
She was one girl in two
It was like a haro
I can’t see i through
Next to the canal, her eyes were so blue
Watching so true
I can’t see it through

Ideas can die
Knowledge can die
There’s something left, it’s you
Listen for awhile it’s blowing aside
And that’s something it’s you

Chorus

Walking down in a desert room
There’s no one there not enough room
I can’t take on my fucking destiny
Walking down in a desert room
I feel so crab and I feel so cool
Am I just unreal ?

Ideas can die
Knowledge can die
There’s something left it’s you
Listen for a while, it’s blowing aside
And that something, it’s you….

Singing : Yan&Tom
Guitars : Frédéric Fuchs
Bass : Jonathan Bénisty
Drums & percussions : Emmanuel Riquier

Recorded in Orion Productions in Dunkerque by Pierre Thouvenot
Mixed by R3myboy in the Addhen Team Studio in Lille

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Better Times
(Music & Lyrics : Yann Quételard)

I dream and I rise
My soul is lifted up until better times
I hardly believe what I see
All around me people pay with smiles and help is a duty
Nowhere can you find hatred nor misery

How long ’til we get there ?
To find the treasures everywhere ?

CHORUS :

Hey ! Hey ! Hey ! Hey !
Let’s fly in the air, let the fire take you
Hey ! Hey ! Hey ! Hey !
Let’s show them you care and that your loving is true
Hey ! Hey ! Hey ! Hey !
Listen to the world, it whispers in your ear
A symphony with every note so clear
So close your eyes and bring out your melodies
Bring all your melodies !

I fly and I swim in the purest skies, in rivers of dreams
My eyes never blinded by the dirt
I plant and collect seeds and fruit all shining healthy
I take what I need, the rest I share

How long ’til we get there ?
To give back the colours everywhere ?

CHORUS

I walk and I climb through the widest plains, across the deepest mines
The only limit I know is how far my feet can go
My sisters and brothers I meet along the way are all equal and safe
Their minds and bodies free from the paper borders

How long ’til we get there ?
Release the powers everywhere ?

CHORUS (2 times)

Singing : Yan&Tom
Guitars : Frédéric Fuchs
Bass : Jonathan Bénisty
Drums : Emmanuel Riquier

Recorded in Orion Productions in Dunkerque by Pierre Thouvenot
Mixed by R3myboy in the Addhen Team Studio in Lille

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Promises of Gold (Music and Lyrics : Yann Quételard & Thomas Seguin; arrangement by Julien Courtois)

This morning, I hear the final countdown
My peacekeeping mission was ending
Little children that I knew, they came to me
They said do not leave
But I got to go

What have I done here as I soldier?
I obey and obey orders from politicians that thought they were preachers
From politicians that thought they were preachers
Now what is left is total disorder

Listen up, cos I can’t define
I’m in the storms of blood and fire,
I’ve been set up, I’ve been fooled
In the desert of your disgrace
I keep trying to save my soul
despite your promises of Gold

They put gag on my mouth
And a rifle in my hand
they put sand in my heart
And the devil in my head

When they say kill, I kill
When they say burn, I burn


Now in my dreams, appear all the faces that crossed my way during my trip
Now in my dreams, appear all the shadows that haunt my memory

The blood will flow, the flood will blow us all away

Oppressed nations of the world, lift up the veil

’cause it’s a dawn in the East and sunset in the West
for all the fighters just peace, illumination for the rest
let’s light up the twilight
let the sunrays seep in your mind

Singing : Yan&Tom
Guitars : Julien Richer
Bass : Arnaud Fauvel
Drums : Dan Voisin
Sax : Regis Bunel
Trombone : Rudy Loos
Keyboards : Nicolas Méheust
Trumpet : Olivier Le Berre
Percussions : Joël Daventry

Recorded and mixed in Le Passage à Niveaux studio in Rennes by Julien Courtois

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Everyday life (Music and lyrics : Thomas Seguin ; arrangement by Yann Quételard)

Facing everyday life it gets so hard
When you try to find a sin while there’s no one
You stuck into the system, no, no,
for all the same burden
Only God foresees, what the world will be
Only God foresees, what the world will be in one century
What the world will be in one century…..

Chorus :

Why do we piss off each other ?
Let’s make a world much more easier
We could change theses things but all together
A new way, a new day

Watching night the TV I’m getting mad
People and people fighting doing arm and arm
We stuck into the system for all the same burden

What have we really done during this decade ?
Nothing has really changed oh changed for me
I still wait for this new day to come
I am waiting deseperately

Chorus

Cry to me, Cry to me
I wanna hear
Cry to me cause no one care
You won’t be my prisoner
There’s a chance for us to be as one
There’s a chance for us to be, to be as one.

Chorus (2 times)

Singing : Yan&Tom
Guitars : Vassili Caillosse
Bass : Samuel Bellanger
Drums : Marlon Soufflet
Scratch : Loïc Van Gasse
Electronic & Brass programming : Yann Quételard

Recorded in Le Passage à Niveaux studio in Rennes by Julien Courtois
Mixed by Larry Fricke in Mix Box studio in Aschaffenburg

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In the wind (Lyrics and Music: Yann Quételard, drums & bass arrangement by Arnaud Delpech)

I feel the wind softly blowing in my hair
Miles and miles of running away, faces and smiles still turning in my head
In my head, in my head, in my head

For a while I will chase the ghosts of my timidity
Feverish from the heat of everyday
I’ve never been living so, oh so intensely

Chorus :

Well I say
I feel this wave
I blew a fuse, forgot the news, I’m breathing instantly
For all the weight of all the fate just disappeared
In the wind, in the wind, in the wind…

Oh oh oh… It’s so good to be alone on the road
With nothing else to spare but the boring routine of everyday
Yesterdays and tomorrows have just taken a break
Only today is at stake

For a while I will chase the ghost of my timidity
Feverish from the heat of everyday
I’ve never been living so, oh so intensely

Chorus

No you never come back two times
In the same life again
It’s weird how the strangers can grow
But if there is no home anymore
I will continue with a handful of memories
And in the end it’s all that I need

Chorus

Singing : Yan&Tom
Guitars : Frédéric Fuchs
Bass : Jonathan Bénisty
Drums & percussions: Emmanuel Riquier
Congas, udu and triangle : Arnaud Clerc
Saxophones : Yann Deneque, bridge by Amaury Boucher

Recorded in Orion Productions in Dunkerque by Pierre Thouvenot
Additional percussions and saxophone recorded at Far Records by Yann Quételard
(except brigde recorded by Amaury Boucher in his home studio)
Mixed by R3myboy in the Addhen Team Studio in Lille

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Indian Voices (Music & Lyrics : Thomas Seguin)

I was born upon the prairies where the air blew free and there was nothing to break
the light of the sun
When the summer heat scortched the prairies, you could draw up under the mountains where the air
was sweet and cool, the grass is freshed
And the bright streams came tumbling out of the snowbank
And the bright streams came tumbling out of the snowbank

Our eyes were opened and our minds became uneasy
Cause there are things that you’ve said to me that I do not like
Our seats were once large and yours were very small
But there are things you’ve done that do not please me so let me…

Chorus :

Let me be, oh, let me be, let me be this free men
I see the light of the world juste ahead
Treat all the men alike
Give them all the same law
Give them all an even chance to live and grow
An even chance to live and grow

An even chance to live and grow (2 times)

My hands are not the same colour of ours
But if I prick it, the blood will flow
I shall feel pain, is it your aim ?
Blood is the colour of ours,
God made me, I am a men

Chorus (2 times)

Singing : Yan&Tom
Piano : Jean-Pascal Audiffren
Guitars : Didier Guegdès
Organ & mellotron : Nicolas Méheust
Bass : Christian Duperray
Drums and percussions : Benjamin Jouet
Didgeridoos : Raphaël Didjaman
Kena & panpipes :

Recorded in the Studio du Val d’Orge in Epinay-sur-Orge by Jean Taxis
Additional guitars, didgeridoos and flutes recorded in Scott Production in Paris by Jean-Pascal Audiffren
Mixed by Larry Fricke in Mix Box studio in Aschaffenburg

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My love (Lyrics and music : Yann Quételard, Arrangement by Simon Cochard)

Your hair is a tentacular curly mess
Spread on the bed it’s a trap
In which I wanna fall
Like a kid in a puddle

Your mind is as winding as the freeway knots
In your detours and roundabouts
I sometimes get lost
But I sure enjoy the ride

Your feet are either ice old or steaming hot
Depending on the time of the day
On the thoughts, on the prayers
That are haunting you

But be sure, I’ll be here to heat’em up or cool’em down
Under the warmth of the sheets
Or in the frozen streets uptown
I will find you

My love, my love
You fill up my world
You make me complete
My love, my love
Your are a pearl
So pure and discrete

You can make my day
Or life with a smile
I could drown in your eyes

Your heart is so cauliflower innocent
You shed a tear every time
A baby tiger’s wounded by
A cold-blooded killer swine

Your skin is an endless silky beach of sand
And when I lie on it I must admit
I’m always afraid
Of feeling my body ablaze

My love, my love
You make me shy and exuberant
My love, my lalalalove
You make me cry and laugh at once

You get me out of my hideaway
With a spark of your eyes
You make me move
You make me rise

My love, my love
You fill up my world
You make me complete
My love, my sweet darling love
You are a pearl
So pure and discrete

You can make my day
Or life with a smile
I could drown in your eyes

Singing : Yann Quételard
Trumpet : Patrick Artero
Clarinet : André Villéger
Tenor Sax : Cyrille Sergé
Trombone : Thierry Durel
Drums : Alexis Sebileau

Recorded in the Studio des Egreffins in Videlles by André Charlier
Mixed by R3myboy in the Ahdden Team Studio in Lille

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2-cent philosophy (lyrics and music : Yann Quételard; piano arrangement by Jean-Pascal Audiffren)

I used to be a bird
I used to love to land on the clouds
Wait and feel my feathers softly tanned by the sun
I used to cry as an innocent child
Lying in its nest, waiting for mom to serve the meal
All that I used to see was the soft light through the trees
And all I used to hear were the singing wings of the bees
Oh oh but now, as I’ve grown old, as I’ve grown cold,
My empathy, I kept it all for me
Strangers around, not even one friendly sound,
I used to pray, but I gave God a holiday

Stones and faces that I’ve known
Are just a trap for my soul
Now anger’s all I need

Hello, bring me there, I wanna hold you,
Shadows fill the room, don’t wanna be doomed,
Already cursed or even worse
I will sing my way through these curtains
To find a better place
And I will try not to lose the lace
For there’s no shame to be, no, there ain’t no reason
To be abandoned with a all world’s shame,
A all world’s blame, and nothing else to stand for
But a 2-cent philosophy

So forget about the pain
Just off of that plane
If there’s a secret word to know
I will just try to
Blow out, breathe in and
Paint this world that I’ve, paint this world that I’ve,
Paint this world that I’ve seen!

Hello, bring me there, I wanna hold you,
Shadows fill the room, don’t wanna be doomed,
Already cursed or even worse
I will sing my way through these curtains
To find a better place
And I will try not to lose the faith
For there’s no shame to be, no, there ain’t no reason
To be abandoned with a all world’s shame,
A all world’s blame, and nothing else to stand for
But a 2-cent philosophy

Singing : Yan&Tom
Piano : Jean-Pascal Audiffren
Guitars : Didier Guegdès
Bass : Christian Duperray
Drums : Benjamin Jouet

Recorded in the Studio du Val d’Orge in Epinay-sur-Orge by Jean Taxis
Additional guitars recorded in Scott Production in Paris by Jean-Pascal Audiffren
Mixed by R3myboy at the Addhen Team studio in Lille

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Underground Tracks (Music & Lyrics : Thomas Seguin ; arrangement by Yann Quételard)

I’m just living in an urban blight
I’m just staying underneath
I’m just living in an urban blight
I’m just staying underneath
Within the tube, there’s no way out
Obstructing the doors is forbidden
Obstructing the doors is forbidden

I am just living in an urban blight
I am just staying underneath

Underneath your walk when you go working
Underneath your look when you faint seeing
That I’m sad

I’m just a city son
Lost in the whole
I’m just a city son
Lost in the whole

Every one is living a life he tries saving
Every one’s sharing this life that is a blessing
You never know what is love it’s reconnection
You want it so but it hurts, it’s all recollection

Downtown here is my place when in your eyes it rains
Dowtown here is my place do you feel my pain
I am just living in an urban blight
I am just staying underneath

I’m only alone in this urban jungle
A usual despair I am blazed in some, blazed

I’m just a city son, lost in the whole
I’m just a city son, lost in the whole

Singing : Yan&Tom
Guitars : Vassili Caillosse
Bass : Samuel Bellanger
Drums : Marlon Soufflet

Recorded in Le Passage à Niveaux studio in Rennes by Julien Courtois
Mixed by R3myboy at the Addhen Team studio in Lille

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We shall be free (Lyrics and music: Yann Quételard, strings arrangement by Julien Courtois)

You who work hard with your hands in the dirt
Your whole life spent to hardly get by
You got nothing to lose, you cannot get hurt
So stare the sun in the eyes

You who stay home with your face in the screen
Your heart full of frustration and fear
Stop pointing your finger at the others
And don’t listen to the lies that you hear

You who wake up without knowing why
You keep seeking the sense of it all
You’re not insane, your hands are not tied
So keep pounding hard on the wall

Refrain:

We shall be free from the jails we build ourselves
We shall release all the lives stuck in our hands

You who keep filling the void of your life
With houses and flats full of wind
Don’t carry this burden on your way to the light
You’ll be free when you’re skinned

You so obsessed with all that glitters
You wear silver and gold on your sleeve
You sold all the pieces of your soul together
For this useless led on your wings

You so enslaved by fashion and fame
You pray the gods for a fleeting glory
Go cultivate the wealth of your land
When it’s sunburnt you’ll be sorry

Refrain (2 times)

All that we have
Is a piece of earth at a corner of this universe
And we share it for better or worse

You who’ve been stolen the whole of your life
For a war no one understands
Vengeance may not put an end to the fight
Take care of the soul you defend

You who look down from the top of the tree
With the leash of the world in your hand
Your ego’s so blinding you cannot see
You’re cutting the roots of your reign

You who speak loud high above the crowd
With justice and truth on your side
May anger and violence abandon your words
You’ll be our shepherd to the sky

Refrain (4 times)

Everything we need, everything we know
It’s in our arms, it’s ours to sow
Every time we kneel, every time we glow
We help the rest of us to see

Singing : Yan&Tom
Guitar : Vassili Caillosse
Drums : Marlon Soufflet
String quartet : Vienna Instruments Chamber strings

Recorded in Le Passage à Niveaux studio in Rennes by Julien Courtois
Mixed by R3myboy at the Addhen Team studio in Lille