Lyrics
(Lui)
Le zinc du comptoir est froid, comme en février.
Le même verre, mais ce soir, l'océan est en entier
Dans tes yeux. Je vous voyais, avant, dériver.
Lui, le phare aveuglant, et toi, la vague fatiguée.
[Chorus]
(Elle & Lui)
Dans le contre-courant, on s'épuise à nager.
La rive est un mirage, un mensonge salé.
[Verse 2]
(Elle)
« Reste à la surface », il disait, sa main sur ma nuque.
L'odeur de rhum ambré sur sa peau, une arnaque.
J'ai bu la tasse pour deux, j'ai coulé sans panique.
Son amour, une ancre, belle et catastrophique.
[Chorus]
(Elle & Lui)
Dans le contre-courant, on s'épuise à nager.
La rive est un mirage, un mensonge salé.
[Bridge]
(Lui)
Même les marées les plus fortes finissent par se calmer.
(Elle)
Mais la houle de son nom continue de me bercer.
[Outro]
(Lui)
Tu laisses une fissure humide sur le bois du bar.
About Axel Marin
Axel Marin was born in Martinique and raised in the suburbs of Paris, but his music lives in the space between. At 19, he was accepted into the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris for jazz guitar, only to drop out two years later after a professor dismissed the Caribbean rhythms of his childhood as 'not serious music'. Now, he pays off his student debt by bartending in Belleville, writing songs on…
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