[Intro – voix presque seule - début de la musique] (Staccato) ooh, ooh,ooh (Pause) The air feels heavier every morning Like something fragile left the room We speak in louder, colder sentences While something human disappears No one says the word anymore. (premier battement très sourd qui apparaît) ⸻ [Verse 1] (Reverb)I see (Pause) Children opening brand-new eyes Into stories they never wrote Into a world already arguing About who deserves the right to hope They learn the map of all our anger Before they learn the shape of care And somewhere underneath the shouting A quiet word dissolves in air [Pre-chorus-crescendo] [hasch] Tell me When did we decide That vengeance was the answer [hasch] Tell me When did we forget The simplest human word [Chorus – explosion] [voix forte crescendo] Mercy Where did we bury this word Under the rubble of pride [voix forte crescendo] Mercy Can anybody hear The human heart tonight [voix forte crescendo] Mercy Before the circle starts again Before the children learn our rage [voix forte crescendo] Mercy Break the chain we hand to them From age to age to age [Verse 2] The old wars whisper in the bloodstream History sharpening its knives Every hatred finds an echo In frightened, wounded lives But children listen from the doorway Their silence wider than the sky Learning slowly from our fury How a human heart can die [Bridge – break the rythm] Listen, listen, listen… There is still a heartbeat Under all this noise Still a trembling kindness Waiting for a voice [intense music] [Final chorus – sceam] Mercy Let it thunder through the dark Before we lose ourselves again Mercy For the ones just learning how To live inside this human pain Mercy Not tomorrow — now [Outro – breaking voice] Mercy… Before they inherit our silence. Children in the doorway They are listening They are learning (Pause) [whispering] Mer-cy (Pause) And now? What do we give them What do we leave What do they inherit What do they believe
