faire masse

11:06 Oct 2, 2017 

Well, once you have the metaphor, the appropriateness of a suggestion will depend largely on what choices you have made for the rest.
Whatever solution you choose, it will need to ryhme with whatever you choose for "c'qui passe" (à la télé) and "à la place" (whatever series/soap he wants to watch instead).
In addition to this needing to rhyme, it must also make sense in terms of meaning, sticking to the original images all the while, and, not the least of your worries, to the rythm of the music.

That's a tall order and none of those elements has been included in the information provided. The best you can hope for, which may well be what you need, will be indications to meaning.

11:04 Oct 2, 2017 

We all recognise the song and start humming it almost instantly, don't we?
You need to know it, or at least have an idea of the "personage" (Bashung) who sings it to know where you can go with the language. A sort of "coeur mou", sensitive, with something a little "écorché" thrown in. Here's a live performance, the only way to really feel Bashung if you don't already know his style. This is not so much sung as spoken. it will also help you to see the metaphores he's using with regard to the title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N5uEYK7B9E

10:26 Oct 2, 2017 

I made two agrees , with a preference for Phil's "grounds the current", and this also depends on the surrounding target text you are using, especially seeing as this is a song and requires some poetic or lyrical style in the writing. Therefore it would help if you could post your ideas on how you are structuring the rest of the verse. Otherwise how can anybody really agree or disagree with certainty, and without misleading you?