Chrome Teeth

Structure : chant (2D / Gorillaz) dominant, avec le rappeur US invité sur deux passages seulement. [Intro : clicks de flash, ambiance de studio photo, basse sourde] (Click... click... say cheese) (Open wide...) [Verse 1 : Singer, doux, un peu fatigué, flow chanté-parlé] Narcissus found a lake in a six-inch screen, Drowned in his own face, but the filter's clean. Baudrillard said the copy outlives the real, Now I'm a smile that's been polished to steel. Lacan, mirror stage: I was whole, then I saw, One glance at the glass and I'm gone, in awe. Rousseau said man is born free, nice try, Born with a price tag stuck to my eye. [Pre-Chorus : Singer + chœurs superposés] Open wide, open wide, Nothing left to hide inside. [Chorus : Singer, accroche principale] Chrome teeth, chrome teeth, smile for the camera, Chrome teeth, chrome teeth, hungry and hollow, Everything shines when you're starving for glamour, Chew on the mirror, swallow, swallow. (Smile! Bite! Shine!) [Verse 2 : GUEST RAPPER (US), technique pure, multisyllabiques, 16 mesures] Yo, chandelier grill in a cathedral of debt, Marx called it fetish: the thing owns me, I ain't owned it yet, Hegel's lord and bondsman, both stuck in the routine, Master needs a servant just to feel like he's supreme, Diogenes with a lantern, searching for an honest man, Found a ring light, a sponsor, and a sign-up for the brand, Pascal's wager: bet on God, bet on gold, bet on grill, Heaven's an upgrade, hell's a subscription bill, Kierkegaard's leap of faith, I jumped, no net, just a lens, Dizzy from the freedom, vertigo's the cost of the trends, Spinoza polished lenses, I polish my incisors, Dentist of the soul, but the soul's got no insurers, Wittgenstein: whereof one cannot speak, be silent, I speak in gold, so the silence turns violent, Every grin's a ledger, and the ledger digs a grave, I'm the cavity in the chrome, still too hungry to behave! [Pre-Chorus : Singer] Open wide, open wide, Nothing left to hide inside. [Chorus : Singer, avec ad-libs du rappeur en écho] Chrome teeth, chrome teeth, smile for the camera, Chrome teeth, chrome teeth, hungry and hollow, Everything shines when you're starving for glamour, Chew on the mirror, swallow, swallow. (Smile! Bite! Shine!) [Bridge : beat dépouillé, piano désaccordé, Singer seul] If the smile is a mask, who's wearing the face? If the tooth is a coin, who's the king of this place? Rust on the chrome when the lights go low, Under every shine, a little bone, a little glow... (A little bone... a little glow...) [Beat switch : double-time, GUEST RAPPER, 8 mesures explosives] Zeno's arrow in flight, never lands, never will, Halfway to the bank, halfway to the kill, Halfway to the grill, halfway to the thrill, Halfway to the peace, but I'm halfway still! Epicurus: garden, bread, a friend, that's the whole thing, I said nah, give me the bakery and the gold ring, Occam's razor, cut it, the simplest thing is true: I'm hungry, you're hungry, and the mirror's hungry too! [Final Chorus : tout s'ouvre, chœurs massifs, rappeur en contre-chant] Singer: Chrome teeth, chrome teeth, smile for the camera, Singer: Chrome teeth, chrome teeth, hungry and hollow, All: Everything shines when you're starving for glamour, All: Break the mirror, spit it out, follow, follow! Singer (seul, murmuré) : Chrome teeth... chrome teeth... open wide... [Outro : un dernier click de flash, silence]