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Self​-​Taken​-​Picture Boys

by Collectif Parcomètre

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I think I understand that you've come back from a long way,
But the people you have lately met don't suit you anyway.
Still I want to try to please you with my side that is the best
And let destiny, love and faith do the rest.

I've already surprised myself to dream about your name
And I sometimes really wanted to step into the frame
Of the pictures you were sending me from all over the world
So is that so absurd?

You've got to turn this boy into something new,
A new and genuine thing that would suit him too.
And imagine, then, what the boy would say,
Would he leave his lonesome pictures, let me be the one who captures?

A wonderful generation of self-taken-picture boys,
Who's growing older and moreover transforms into living toys.
We live in a painful world of selfish and ruptured boys.
I want to enjoy my life but then, can a Picture-Boy understand?

(Self-taken-picture boy, who grows and transforms into living looking toys,
This is hateful, this is awful, selfish and ruptured boys.
Change your life, change your friends, and the boy will understand)

Well now I guess I know what is going on,
Behind these glossy pictures I'm choking on.
Showing your sad little face, your chest in a race
Looking for oxygen, nature, freedom and grace.

You travelled round the world while I was staying at home,
Dreaming of a man that I could call my own.
While you were getting all these pictures for your pride and fame
And I was weeping like a leftover not trusting his feelings.

And still I wonder what is going on.
When a body meets a rising sun.
Will it sparkle or just fade away,
Like I sometimes do, every other single day?

A wonderful generation of self-taken-picture boys,
Who's growing older and moreover transforms into living toys.
We live in a painful world of selfish and ruptured boys.
I want to enjoy my life but then, can a Picture-Boy understand?

(Self-taken-picture boy, who grows and transforms into living looking toys,
This is hateful, this is awful, selfish and ruptured boys.
Change your life, change your friends, and the boy will understand)

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released June 12, 2010
Music and Lyrics by Nicolas Meyer
Additionnal Arrangement and Mastering by Cédric Liardet

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Collectif Parcomètre Neuchatel, Switzerland

Malgré ses allures de maréchaussée, le Collectif Parcomètre projette une création musicale et audiovisuelle assez libre et intuitive.

Déjà équipé d'un macaron de zone pop, le conducteur du Collectif souhaite maintenant passer son permis d'électro, et s'est armé, pour ce faire, d'une poignée de logiciels et d'un maître d'automation. ... more

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