Le Privilège

The speaker is preparing to tell his mother that he no longer wants to live at boarding school and that he loves boys. He worries about how his family will react, but he also wants to speak honestly and feel at peace with himself. The emotion moves from anxiety and sleeplessness toward a quiet insistence that he is not ashamed.

The repeated question about whether this love is an “ordinary illness” shows the speaker struggling with the idea that his feelings might be treated as something wrong. “Crever l’abcès” is an idiom meaning to bring a painful, hidden problem into the open so it can be dealt with. The image of being “a stranger in his body” suggests a deep sense of discomfort or alienation, though the lyrics do not fully explain what that feeling means for him.

The song leaves some questions unresolved: the speaker wonders whether God protects people like him and what his family will say, but we do not learn their response. “Preference” and “privilege” may point to the way his love is viewed by others, as well as to the unfair burden of having to explain it. The lyrics can be read as a personal coming-out story, while also expressing a broader wish to be accepted without being treated as ill or unusual.