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Damso

Exutoire

Release date: 8th July 2016

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About This Track

Damso builds 'Exutoire' around a sample of Agnès Obel's 'Philharmonics', her melancholic strings threading through a portrait of survival in precarity. The track moves between defiance and exhaustion: a man counting coins in a cramped flat, weighing the risk of petty crime against the certainty of hunger, listening to Obel's music as an anchor. The production is sparse and heavy, leaving room for Damso's voice to register both the swagger and the strain. The lyrics cycle through contradiction. He boasts of escape and accumulation, then circles back to the material facts of scarcity: an empty stomach, a low battery, the mathematics of whether a thousand euros is worth prison. There is no resolution, only the loop of survival and the small dignity of taste, of choosing Obel over the noise around him. 'Exutoire' means outlet or release; here it is music itself, a moment of grace in a day of compromise.

"Exutoire" is a track by Damso, from the album Batterie faible, released 8th July 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

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Damso

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Exutoire

[Paroles de "Exutoire"]

[Intro]

Eh

Dems

Eh

[Couplet 1]

Allégresse que pour tendre mère (Eh), tas de graisse dans son derrière (Oh)

J'me sens baisé d'la vie comme quand pute te dit : "C'est trop tard pour ne plus être père" (Rrah)

Un avenir dans un chèque repas (Oh), fin du mois, tout l'monde perd du poids (Eh)

Nage en brasse en plein tsunami, survis, je vis, taureau noir dans la corrida (Ah ouais)

En temps d'guerre, y a aucune étreinte (No), tue tout l'monde, même les femmes enceintes (Rrah)

Dans un cloaque en méditation, j'vis des jours heureux dans lumière éteinte (Ouais)

Y a qu'à la muscu' qu'j'mets un genou à terre (Ouais), gare centrale à la rue, j'étais locataire (Ouais)

Depuis, j'fais du sale, y a plus de clémence (No), j'vis d'Universal et d'mes redevances (Ok)

Perpétuelle éjaculation (Woh) dans orifice de pute en excitation (Ouais)

Succession d'accumulation, j'respecte plus les règles même celles de ses menstruations (No)

Beaucoup d'appelés mais si peu d'élus, m'en bats les couilles des vues tant qu'ça a pas payé (Ouais)

Tu passes à la télé mais t'es pas connu, en gros tu prends dans l'cul mais t'es pas pédé (Ouais)

Angle droit comme la lettre L (Eh), vrai pe-ra Wu-Tang dans les gênes (Ah)

J'fais du sale, j'ai d'la verdure à vendre, comme ceux dont la chair est couleur ébène (Ouais)

[Refrain]

Loin des plages ensoleillées, j'ai su trouver sommeil

Le cœur sur une plaque allumée, j'écoute Agnès Obel

J'écoute Agnès Obel

Le cœur sur une plaque allumée, j'écoute Agnès Obel

Agnès, Agnès Obel-bel-bel-bel-bel-bel-bel

J'écoute Agnès Obel

Agnès, Agnès Obel-bel-bel-bel-bel-bel-bel

Le cœur sur une plaque allumée, j'écoute Agnès Obel

[Couplet 2]

En fait le truc c'est que j'n'avais pas de flouzes (No), j'faisais du pe-ra appuyé par le couz' (Ah)

Souvent défoncé, j'compte les sous dépensés, dans ma douze et goose, Damso, dose, dose, dose

Les mecs au quartier parlent de barillets (Ouais), j'me dis qu'pour braquer, pas trop tard il est

J'hésite à faire ce biz' en deux deux mais j'me dis pour mille eu' "Vais-je risquer la taule ?", no, no

Ventre creux, sans thunes, le cœur qui bat (Ouais), Batterie faible indique le Toshiba (Rrah)

J'me dis qu'vaut mieux que j'fasse des prods', les vendre aux mecs qui posent, qui sait ça m'fera des loves, loves, loves

J'postule dans les shops, j'suis au FOREM (Ok), putain, j'ai même dû enlever ma boucle d'oreille

Ces fils de putes ne voulaient pas du Dems, j'n'avais pas le profil, non j'n'étais qu'un négro, no, no

J'pète donc les plombs, j'craque, j'prends l'gun, j'braque sans m'faire pécho

J'suis refait, mille eu' au frais, p'tits billets (Yeah), p'tits boulots, FOREM, j'ai oublié (Yeah)

J'taffe donc les sons, tracks sombres, seum, QALF semble plaire, qué-cho j'suis

Refait, signé au frais, gros billets (Oh), p'tits boulot, FOREM, j'ai oublié (Yeah)

Quelques mois plus tard, j'suis dans l'arène à faire du sale #Vie

"Appelle-moi plus tard, j'n'ai plus l'temps pour toi" m'avait-elle dit

[Refrain]

Loin des plages ensoleillées, j'ai su trouver sommeil

Le cœur sur une plaque allumée, j'écoute Agnès Obel

J'écoute Agnès Obel

Le cœur sur une plaque allumée, j'écoute Agnès Obel

Agnès, Agnès Obel-bel-bel-bel-bel-bel-bel

J'écoute Agnès Obel

Agnès, Agnès Obel-bel-bel-bel-bel-bel-bel

Le cœur sur une plaque allumée, j'écoute Agnès Obel

[Outro : Krisy]

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Track details

From Batterie faible

2016
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Album
Batterie faible
Batterie faible
Damso
Release year
2016
  1. —Amnésie
  2. —Exutoire
  3. —QuedelaVie
  4. —Beautiful
  5. —Monde
  6. —Sombre
  7. —BruxellesVie
  8. —Autotune
  9. —Périscope
  10. —Graine de sablier
  11. —Quotidien de baisé
  12. —Jean Reno
  13. —Iscariote
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