Prologue Lyrics in English Sylvain Duthu

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Prologue by Sylvain Duthu from French to English.

I smile in photos

I'm a great audience

I read Le Monde Diplo'

I don't listen to much music

I'm often too lazy

To take the first step

And lots of people love me

People I don't know

Julie knows me better

Than I know myself

And I find it wonderful

That after that she still loves me

More and more photos

Fewer and fewer friends

No motorcycle or boat license

No kid laughing here

I always put on a good face

I blame nobody

Except the people I love most

Whom I forgive the least

When I'm sad, I don't know how to say it

When I'm fine, I don't know how to say it

When I'm happy

I wonder why

I wonder how

Long it'll last

And saying I love you

I can't even say

That I can't do it

I say it badly or not loud enough

The only times I've said it

Were to my dogs

And to my dead grandpa

I love you, grandpa

People drive me to despair

But I close my eyes

In secret I hope

That the good Lord exists

I can't manage to be alone

I dread boredom

But when I'm bored I write

And that's how

I make my living

I work ten times less

Than the people around me

I earn ten times more or less

But I keep that to myself

Though I'm getting bourgeois

I'm getting wiser

I'm getting straighter

Today there's only one

Even if I'm lacking with blondes

It's true I'm lacking with blondes

I'm so gentle, so gentle

But I keep my anger inside

Sometimes I go crazy

And in my head play out

Premeditated murders

They say I'm so gentle, so gentle

And I save for my brothers

All the love I've been given

I thank life

For its bittersweet taste

One night I'll leave here

I'll enjoy the view

I'll leave a little love

For the men who kill themselves

And I'll dive back into the sea

And I find the world

Lacks too much nuance

Everybody joins the circle

But nobody knows how to dance

And I find the world

Lacks too much nuance

Everybody joins the circle

But nobody knows how to dance

And I find the world

Lacks too much nuance

Everybody joins the circle

But nobody knows how to dance

And I find the world

Lacks too much nuance

Everybody joins the circle

But nobody knows how to dance

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance

Dance

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance

But nobody knows how to dance

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance

But nobody knows how to dance

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance

But nobody knows how to dance

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SONG MEANING

Sylvain Duthu opens his album with an intimate selfie of the soul. In Prologue he lists his quirks like snapshots—smiling for photos, skimming Le Monde Diplomatique, loving dogs, fearing boredom—while admitting to hidden storms and secret hopes. The song feels like reading someone’s private journal out loud: he is successful and grateful, yet lazy; adored online, yet lonely in real life; gentle on the surface, yet boiling inside. Every confession is balanced by its opposite, painting a picture of a man who can never fit into one tidy box.

Behind the confessions lies a gentle challenge to all of us. Duthu sees a world “without nuance,” where everyone goes through the motions but “no one knows how to dance.” His honest self-portrait invites listeners to drop the masks, forgive their contradictions, and truly move instead of merely circling each other. The result is a song that feels both personal and universal: a friendly nudge to embrace our messy humanity and finally learn our own dance.

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Sylvain Duthu Prologue Lyrics