Origami invites us into the mind of someone who is busy folding and refolding their own heart, trying to transform pain into beauty just like paper becomes a graceful swan. Patrick Bruel and Ycare play with the idea that love is a delicate art, yet the "paper" they are working with often feels as hard as steel. The singer searches the night for new stars, wonders when fear finally fades, and jokes about living their roaring twenties until 120 years old, through every shade of hair from brown to grey to white. In other words, the song is a humorous, bittersweet manifesto for living fully while our hearts keep getting crumpled, mended and folded again.
Wrapped in catchy pop-folk sounds, the lyrics juggle big questions: How many laughs, tears and broken hearts does it take to really feel alive? Can we love so fiercely that we end up loving our own imperfect bodies? By comparing himself to origami, the narrator shows how every crease of experience shapes a new version of who we are. Even if the person he loves only wants friendship, he keeps folding onward, determined to turn every hurt into art and every passing second into a moment worth savoring.