This song was born from the rhythm of a playful tune, and I had fun playing with the words to create the lyrics.
The recurring sound of ‘laisser les loups là’ (‘leave the wolves there’) caught my ear and inspired this image: wolves howling by a riverside as a sailboat caught the wind and set off.
It doesn’t matter if it isn’t realistic. First, the universe of my imagination is full of fantasy worlds where anything can happen. Then, I like to express emotions through metaphors. And finally, I had a lot to say on the subject.
Wolves, even though I often find them beautiful, had already become symbolic figures. They were fears, because the wolf is an archetype of primal terror. They were criticism, attacks, people who bite. And for me, in that moment, born from the sinister atmosphere created by the thought of their howl, they became a bone-chilling sound: the sound of manipulators. But even if I had a specific target in mind, I wrote in a symbolic register, so everyone can see their own wolves in it.
I wanted this song to feel light‑hearted, fluid, airy. I felt the tune as a movement, a breath, a journey, like something out of a tale or a fantasy short story. In my first image, a sailboat was setting off, and my inspiration simply followed its course.
The wind became a central element; the lyrics followed its gusts, in a motion of sails, space, and freedom. With this theme of leaving what is harmful behind, the playful lilt of my ‘La la la’ and that touch of innocent mischief I had sensed from the start made perfect sense.
I intentionally hid everything I was targeting beneath poetic imagery, so that the poetry would overtake the picture, and its poetic shape could hold whatever anyone chose to place in it.
The final verse opens the song onto the journey: toward love, toward others, toward the idea of passing something uplifting and timeless from one person to the next.
If the wind is a guide, then love is the path itself.