What about friendship and love?
Bökanövsky - Self titled - July '07

You think you’re punk?
But getting drunk you’re just a fucking idiot
If hardcore/punk is just fighting in the pit you’d better look at yourself
At least one time
Please look at yourself
At least one time
Can’t you see how lonesome you are
Can’t feel any passion going through your veins
What about friendship and love?

We are a bit bored of all those people playing or going to shows in Toulon: to being said at every corner that they are « punk », « hardcore », « anarchist », eventhought i do not know if I’m a punk, or a nerd or whatever, it pisses me off. Every single show is made of violent pogos, the people don’t even listen to the bands, don’t try to get involve a little more in the gig, all they want is fight and beer. I don’t preach what is bad nor good, I just ask those people to look a bit more at their actions, ideas, and feelings.
Clément

 

 

La grande déglingue
Bökanövsky - Self titled - July '07

Notre soif de progrès est à l’image
De géants d’acier maintenant
Inutiles et abandonnés
Des champs de pétrole comme lieux de promenade
Comprendre que notre amour n’est plus qu’un paysage (monochrome)
Notre soif de progrès à l’image de géants d’acier
Entre ciel et terre
Ne reste que la grisaille comme
Unique terrain de jeu
Un dédale pollué où déambulent les amoureux

All around the capital of Azerbaidjan remain hundreds of rusty derricks. Out of time they are what could be compared to a pollute labyrinth, and yet this is also where lovers walk around hands in hands...mankind and its thirst for progress, industrialisation replaced nature by fields of iron and love as our hope in background...
Coco

 

 

On nait pas encore mort
Bökanövsky - Self titled - July '07

Noirs sont nos desseins à les lire dans vos regards avec dégoût jetés sur nos cadavres que vous Croyez déjà morts
Vos modèles sociaux sont nos contraintes
Une prison pour nos émotions
Des schémas pré-établis qu’on vomit
Entendez au loin les pleurs de nos enfances
Craignez ces larmes prêtes à rompre l’asphalte
Vos peurs coulent dans nos veines
Vos pouvoirs s’éfritent
Inconscient et innocents
Nous vous survivrons d’une jeunesse éternelle

Your desire to reject the norms and schemes that this brand new wordl is offering you... maybe this is the child that will forever live inside of us that will save you from every models of limitation...let see, if not we’ll have the pleasure to be a threat!
Coco

I ear people being at the end of their job and the beginning of their retirement saying : “My life is almost over, and I didn’t do anything of it”. I don’t want to end like this. Usually, when I talk with people arround me : not willing to search for what they call « a real job », they reply me « oh, you are young, you’ll change your mind later »…
If refusing to follow the normal « schemes » of our society is just for them a « teenager act » that will end at a moment, well.. We’ll keep beeing those young kids for our greatest freedom!
Clément

 

 

 

A l'aube nos passions s'arment
Bökanövsky - Self titled - July '07

Les monuments doivent tomber
Les lieux de culte se dressent contre nos
Libertés
Les cultures conditionnées, controllées
Font de l’humanité une masse de fidéles armés
Pendez les prêcheurs, les prédicateurs
Ils font de nous une négation de l’amour

Le mensonge comme doctrine
Des exemples calculés
L ’intolerance comme etendard
A l’aube nos passions s’arment et affichent nos libertés
Nos passions s’arment

Contre nos libertés

What religions made of our modern society, ruling our everyday life and limiting what we consider as natural freedom...the dream of a world without any religion as a political system! Get yourself free from a faith you don’t really want, make your own choice, have your own belief, do not impose but respect...!
Coco

I can’t stand anymore all those people telling us that hey have the solution to make our life better with bringing us closer to what they call “god”… Make up your own mind, don’t be a shame with not agreeing with everything.
Clément

 

 

The age of machines over our existence
Bökanövsky - Self titled - July '07

Hope behind our masks
Remain the rags of unity
Memories of passion
And thoughts we’d shared
What we’d left of our bodies when all issues drove us to dead end situations
Walking down the asphalt
The age of machine over our existence
A dehumanizing effect
The basis of our industrial lives
Can’t count every drops of blood
Running from the plague of urbanism
Earth replaced by iron and asphalt
Keep loving

Since what historians has called the industrial revolution, no need to be graduated to realise the impact and the importance of machines in our everyday lives...the sound of factories and machines as the rythm for a more and more mechanical life we are forced to live through...fuck it and let’s do concentrate on our own body, if we had made all this mess and driven ourselves into such a situation it means we can easily destroy it and take back control over our existence...love and blood as our weapons!
Coco

 

 

 

Let's do not seperate
Bökanövsky - Self titled - July '07

Au lendemain des regards, des sourires volés
Oser se mettre à nu, se dévoiler et partager
Nos sentiments briseront ces chaines
Oser se mettre à nu, se dévoiler et partager
Ce qui sauvera nos emotions

Some events make you realise how alive you are and how good it is to feel all those emotions deep inside your heart, a ball in your stomach, cause people and meetings make us feel better, let’s do no separate anymore and make our community bigger...
Coco

The year 2006/2007 has been for me a year of friendship, and I also realise a lot of things concerning myself. I just can’t express what I feel for all those people I met, I can’t find any words do describe the feelings I have. Maybe it’s what we call friendship, love, and passion! Keep being yourself.
Clément