| Tout faux, on a tout faux
| All wrong, we've got it all wrong
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| On peut plus remettre les compteurs à zéro
| We can no longer reset the counters
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| On y va tout droit
| We're going straight
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| On sait pas où ça va
| We don't know where it's going
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| C’est l’article vingt-deux
| This is article twenty-two
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| Chacun s’débrouille comme il peut
| Everyone manages as they can
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| Est Ouest, uni oubli
| East West, united oblivion
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| On est pas arrivés, économie bloquée
| We haven't arrived, economy blocked
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| L'écart s’est creusé, sans humanité
| The gap widened, without humanity
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| Y’en a un qui a trop, l’autre qui n’a pas assez
| One has too much, the other has not enough
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| Mais le vent
| But the wind
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| Le vent vient d’Orient
| The wind comes from the East
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| Ce vent brûlant
| This burning wind
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| Qui glace tout l’Occident
| Which freezes the whole West
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| Mais le vent
| But the wind
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| Le vent vient d’Orient
| The wind comes from the East
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| Ce vent brûlant
| This burning wind
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| Qui glace tout l’Occident
| Which freezes the whole West
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| Pouvoir Etat fébrile
| Ability Feverish state
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| D’un coté à l’autre, tu joues sur un fil
| Side to side, you're playing on a wire
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| Tu sais plus comment
| You don't know how anymore
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| Remonter le temps
| Go back in time
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| Ni comment effacer
| Nor how to erase
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| Toutes les conneries du passé
| All the bullshit from the past
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| Robinet, fermer, banquier
| Faucet, close, banker
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| Le mot d’ordre est lancé
| The watchword is launched
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| Tout est gelé
| Everything is frozen
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| Mais qui va payer l’papier
| But who will pay for the paper
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| Le petit porteur
| The Little Carrier
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| Celui qu’on connait par cœur
| The one we know by heart
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| Mais le vent
| But the wind
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| Le vent vient d’Orient
| The wind comes from the East
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| Ce vent brûlant
| This burning wind
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| Qui glace tout l’Occident
| Which freezes the whole West
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| Mais le vent
| But the wind
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| Le vent vient d’Orient
| The wind comes from the East
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| Ce vent brûlant
| This burning wind
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| Qui glace tout l’Occident
| Which freezes the whole West
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| Terrien, terrien, t’es rien
| Earthling, earthling, you're nothing
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| Dans le mot tout est dit, et regarde-toi bien
| In the word everything is said, and take a good look at yourself
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| Tu es né un jour
| You were born one day
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| Tu mourras un jour
| You will die one day
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| Et entre les deux tu dois trouver l’amour
| And between the two you have to find love
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| Mais rine, non rien, vraiment rien
| But nothing, no nothing, really nothing
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| Dans cet engrenage entropophage
| In this entropophagous gear
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| Rien ne laisse venir l'été
| Nothing lets summer come
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| Tu pointes au chômage
| You point to unemployment
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| Ou bien tu es raquetté
| Or are you racketed
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| Mais le vent
| But the wind
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| Le vent vient d’Orient
| The wind comes from the East
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| Ce vent brûlant
| This burning wind
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| Qui glace tout l’Occident
| Which freezes the whole West
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| Mais le vent
| But the wind
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| Le vent vient d’Orient
| The wind comes from the East
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| Ce vent brûlant
| This burning wind
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| Qui glace tout l’Occident | Which freezes the whole West |