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Contre-Plongée

Axel Marin
Artist
Axel Marin
R&B / Soul2:50April 19, 2026
0:00 2:50

Influenced by Dadju, Kassav', Burna Boy, Marvin Gaye. 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 his father's old nylon-string guitar that fuse zouk-pop warmth with the cool melancholy of a city that never quite feels like home.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Mardi soir, la glace dans ton verre craque pile à 23h.
Je fais semblant de rincer un shaker, mais je vois son regard qui te parque.
Il bâtit des murs de silence, chaque mot est une brique.
Toi, t'habites dans les fissures, tu cherches une sortie de secours, c'est tragique.

[Chorus]
Laisse-le parler dans le vide,
Son royaume est un plan sans avenir.
Tu vaux mieux que sa façade aride,
Je le lis dans ton soupir.

[Verse 2]
Sa main sur ton bras, une signature au bas d'un mauvais contrat.
Il te coupe la parole, "Tu dramatises, comme d'hab", ce ton-là...
Je me souviens de ton rire en juillet, sur le canal Saint-Martin.
Maintenant c'est juste un écho qui se cogne sur du parpaing.

[Chorus]
Laisse-le parler dans le vide,
Son royaume est un plan sans avenir.
Tu vaux mieux que sa façade aride,
Je le lis dans ton soupir.

[Bridge]
Un mot de moi, et tout s'effondre.
Ce château de cartes, cette poudrière.
J'essuie le comptoir, j'attends juste l'ordre,
Que tu mettes le feu à sa fourmilière.

[Outro]
Dans le vide...
Laisse-le.

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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