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I can make you believe in almost anything
I want to gently occupy your mind
It’s a shame you’ll just believe about everything I say
When there’s nothing true behind
Mistaking voyeurism for culture is the key
To make my way into the truth
‘Cause I hold an absolute monopoly over you
And yet I’m still in my youth
Outside I’m a dream come true
I come in many faces I live in every place
Inside you’d scream if you knew
I come in many faces I live in every place you go
Give me good or bad give me ugliness
I’ll sow confusion between the lines
Give me lust give me love give me bitchiness
I’ll turn your profanity to pride
Give me envy give me bitterness
I’ll make your sanity decline
Give me television, loneliness
I’ll make your humanity recline
Outside I’m a dream come true
I come in many faces I live in every place
Inside you’d scream if you knew
I come in many faces I live in every place you go
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Breathe, Pretender
04:04
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If I told you the truth would you still be proud?
Would you feel surrounded and still be aroused?
Stay still, sit down shut your mouth and seethe
As I hold up the mirror can you still breathe, pretender?
I don’t give a flying fuck if you feel bad
I don’t care if your brain cells are one big gonad
Which one of my actions gave you the drive?
Nothing but pure invention so you could contrive, pretender
But you don’t care much, do you?
No you don’t fear much, do you?
And you don’t foretell, do you?
And you do fare well, don’t you?
I’ll tell you a few home truths
I’ll never sign a truce
If you feel sorry for me, think again, I’m fine
Every cloud has a silver lining and they’re mine
So you can keep your sorrow, your guilt, your smear
I’ve become much stronger now, so disappear, pretender
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Face Tomorrow
05:44
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Face Tomorrow
I am here I am there
Yet I don’t belong anywhere
Other than the clothes I wear
You can’t hear me you don’t care
You’re living like a drunken billionaire
Lecturing, the world ain’t fair
Are you mystified ?
Would you kill would you maim a million men?
For the sake of surrounding Bethlehem
Imaginary peace in the hearts of men
Who just can’t share Jerusalem
Would you kill would you maim a million men?
In the name of the swath you call your land
A man of the cloth is but a man
Children die and you don’t want to face tomorrow
A siren sighs and you still won’t face tomorrow
Why humiliate why confine
So much hatred for a shrine
End of times too many signs
There’s no healing to be found
When sacred symbols scar the ground
And torn children make no sound
I can’t drown here anymore
I need to reach some kind of shore
Why can’t you just live next door? People! come to the fore
These fools are rotten to the core
Scream for peace scream for more
Are you mystified ?
Children die and you don’t want to face tomorrow
A siren sighs and you still won’t face tomorrow
It should happen today
We’ve waited this long, waited for ages
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Something I Don't Know
04:08
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Something I Don't Know
There is no sound in the silence you make
Please say it loud never mind what you break
My expectations that cannot be filled
You gave me hope do I have to be thrilled
Brooding in silence straight lines of rails
Queuing for tickets for the next train of thought
A tired-looking lady at the desk lifts her eyes
This train’s a phantom, this train’s a ghost
Tell me something I don’t know, I don’t know
I want to see the things you didn’t show
Look at the darkness from above
I’ve already found a way to light up your shadow
Trust in me I’m sure I can give you
Something you don’t know
Cry out the words that stop you from moving
Think of all the time you’ve wasted ‘til now
You’re keeping too many secrets to yourself
You made me doubt you’re the reason of my despair
You made me doubt so
Tell me something I don’t know, I don’t know
I want to see the things you didn’t show
Look at the darkness from above
I’ve already found a way to light up your shadow
Trust in me I’m sure I can give you
Something you don’t know
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A Line In The Sand
04:18
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Tell me, what are you waiting for?
Tell me, what are you hoping for?
Tell me, would you call my name?
Betray me, would you feel no shame?
The latent underlying tyranny within you
Don’t you ever feel no shame?
The patent undermining theory beneath you
Don’t you ever feel no shame at all?
A line in the sand
Lying in the sand
A line in the sand
Lying in the sand
The latent underlying tyranny within you
The patent undermining theory beneath you
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The Empty Man
03:25
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The Empty Man
A soul dying within, emptiness pushing hard
Always growing and growing
Nobody outside feels betrayed ‘cause the body
Has changed wears a shape less insane
One way to stop the emptiness from expanding
Fill it with pain
So will you
Open your eyes or congratulate
Yourself on your blindness ‘til it’s too late
Until he becomes the empty man
Too easy to believe you’ll retaliate
When it comes to extremes before it’s too late
Before he becomes the empty man
When the time comes will you choose between obligations
Or orders or mercy?
You’ll be wearing armbands looking sideways
A blurred vision a pointed hood
A bloodshed like the good old days of legal murder
Or maybe you’ll have the courage to say
You might contend or disobey
Will people think will people talk
Or howl for your blood
So will you
Open your eyes or congratulate
Yourself on your blindness ‘til it’s too late
Until he becomes the empty man
Too easy to believe you’ll retaliate
When it comes to extremes before it’s too late
Before he becomes the empty man
At some point you’ll have to come to terms
Are you one who remembers, blowing on embers
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Panem Tours, France
𝚉𝚎𝚒𝚝𝚐𝚎𝚒𝚜𝚝 / 𝙰𝚋𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚎 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚢 voted 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥 Music Waves' Readers Poll.
Based in Tours & Nantes, France.
Progressive, Indie Rock or Soul even. The truth is we don't really know! Have a listen, we hope you enjoy it.
Panem is :
Marie Moreau / lead vocals
Emeline Fougeray / bass
Mogan Cornebert / drums
Yacine Aït Amer / guitars & vocals
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