| Ils croient qu’on est qu’des rude boys, n? | They think we're just rude boys, right? |
| s pour livrer bataille
| s to do battle
|
| Frappant les tam-tams quand? | Hitting the tom-toms when? |
| a poigne, quand j’entre entre la racaille
| a fist, when I enter between the scum
|
| Leur connerie est de taille? | How big is their bullshit? |
| masquer l’ignorance
| hide ignorance
|
| Et si par miracle un doute les assaille, se tiennent les relances
| And if by some miracle a doubt assails them, the raises stand
|
| Les masques, les gardes et l’oeil sur leur bectance, la main sur la panse
| The masks, the guards and the eye on their bectance, the hand on the belly
|
| Faut qu’ils sachent que les n? | Should they know that the n? |
| tres servent? | very useful? |
| autre chose que vol et maintenance
| anything other than flight and maintenance
|
| Jusque dans ces bleds pomm? | Even in these apple bleds? |
| s de France o? | s from France o? |
| la peur va croissante
| the fear is growing
|
| Haine du croissant naissance
| Birth Crescent Hatred
|
| Pendant que seul le dico parle de violence
| While only the dictionary speaks of violence
|
| Versant dans l’ind?cence des id? | Pouring into the indecency of id? |
| es germent, issues de sales semences
| sprout, from dirty seeds
|
| Toujours les m? | Always the m? |
| mes s? | my s? |
| quences
| sequences
|
| Un idiot creuse un trou, y’en a 100 qui s’y lancent
| A fool digs a hole, 100 go for it
|
| Dame complaisance fait son entr? | Lady convenience makes her entrance? |
| e omnipotente
| e omnipotent
|
| Et eux la regardent passer tant que? | And they watch it pass as long as? |
| a danse le dimanche
| danced on sunday
|
| Et pensent garder leur chance
| And think they'll keep their luck
|
| Et v’l? | And here? |
| ma jeunesse, la foule
| my youth, the crowd
|
| Ceux pour qui le monde s’ouvre
| Those for whom the world opens
|
| Chouf, v’l? | Chouf, ya? |
| la sale bouffe
| dirty food
|
| Celle qu’tes cauchemars couvrent (couvrent !)
| The one your nightmares cover (cover!)
|
| Grince les dents, c’est le r? | Grind your teeth, that's the r? |
| veil ?vident
| obvious eye
|
| Nos vies s’vidant
| Our lives are emptying
|
| Du bon sens on t’met du consistant
| Common sense we give you consistency
|
| Ecris le avant de choper ta syncope, h? | Write it down before you get your faint, h? |
| l’propre !
| the clean!
|
| C’est le sale qui te branche, note
| It's the dirty that turns you on, note
|
| A travers notre faute !
| Through our fault!
|
| Ca doit venir de ces colonies o? | It must come from those colonies where? |
| la chaleur m? | the heat m? |
| ne Mais pas ta flamme du mal qui dirige vos haines
| But not your flame of evil that directs your hatreds
|
| Et prends-toi ?a !
| And take it!
|
| Et appelle si t’as besoin de sous-titres
| And call if you need captions
|
| Sur mon pupitre y’a pas de place pour les sous-pitres
| On my desk there is no place for subtitles
|
| La v? | The v? |
| rit? | laugh? |
| c’est que vous craignez vos faiblesses tous autant que vous? | Is it that you fear your weaknesses all as much as you do? |
| tes
| your
|
| Nous on combat? | We fight? |
| a avec un art qui se dresse et vexe !
| a with an art that stands up and vexes!
|
| Et voil?, on y est maintenant, et tu sais de quoi? | Here we are now, and you know what? |
| a parle !
| talked !
|
| Y’a pas que les nuits qui sont noires, y’a les? | It's not just the nights that are dark, are there? |
| mes si nos beats crament
| my if our beats burn
|
| Les d? | The D? |
| mons les arment, souill? | mon arm them, defiled? |
| s par le charme
| s by charm
|
| Y’a pas que les mots qui font mal, y’a les actes
| It's not just words that hurt, there are actions
|
| Pens? | Think? |
| e animale, suit la cons? | e animal, follow the idiot? |
| quence, raison minimale
| quence, minimal reason
|
| Ils sont l?, le couteau entre les dents
| They are there, the knife between the teeth
|
| T’as la frousse pour ton Citro? | Scared for your Citro? |
| n C3 qu’une horde d? | n C3 a horde of? |
| barque
| small boat
|
| Avec une tire braqu? | With a pointed pull? |
| e dans ton chemin de pointes et droits
| e in your way of spikes and straights
|
| Amalgame et effroi en fond de l’exil amenant ic? | Amalgamation and dread in the background of exile leading here? |
| ne et croix
| do and cross
|
| Souvenir d’un bled cram? | Remembering a bled cram? |
| qu’la faim nettoie
| that hunger cleans
|
| Propagande sous les toits, guerre? | Propaganda under the roof, war? |
| nos portes, chez le Gotha c’est l’extase
| our doors, at the Gotha it's ecstasy
|
| Import, export, transport
| Import, export, transportation
|
| Ils guettent les chiffres comme? | They watch the numbers like? |
| la bourse de Francfort
| Frankfurt Stock Exchange
|
| Ils collent? | They stick? |
| nos basques un d? | our coattails one of |
| nomm? | named? |
| Oussama comme? | Osama like? |
| tant notre meilleur mentor
| so much our best mentor
|
| Des Viet-Cong on a gard? | Any Viet Cong? |
| que le mental, ce qui a fait de nous des warriors
| than the mind, which made us warriors
|
| A la carri? | At the carri? |
| re bien peu instrumentale, loin du standard stupide de l’inclus
| re very little instrumental, far from the stupid standard of the included
|
| vendable
| salable
|
| Loin des buffets o? | Far from the buffets where? |
| ces hy? | these hy? |
| nes bandables s’nourrissent des fruits du scandale
| do bandables feed on the fruits of the scandal
|
| Ils voudraient tous nous voir? | They would all like to see us? |
| l’agonie, au bord de l’asphyxie
| agony, on the brink of asphyxiation
|
| La peur au ventre qu’on les envahisse d’Afrique jusqu’en Laponie
| The fear in the belly that we invade them from Africa to Lapland
|
| Ils parlent de d? | They talk about d |
| mocratie, flippent sur la d? | mocracy, freak out about the d? |
| mographie
| mography
|
| Des mots nous qualifient de d? | Words qualify us as d? |
| mons, sur les monts
| mons, on the mountains
|
| On y vit pas on est l?, stagne en bas de chez toi
| We don't live there, we're here, stagnant below your house
|
| De chez eux dans les rues, les blocs, ils nous damnent mais on les voit pas
| From home in the streets, the blocks, they damn us but we don't see them
|
| Et on va pas refaire l’histoire du monde
| And we're not going to rewrite the history of the world
|
| Si c’est un miroir qui nous g? | If it's a mirror that g? |
| ne alors fuck je repr? | so fuck i repr? |
| sente les monstres
| feel the monsters
|
| La chasse est ouverte et les uniformes grondent
| The hunt is on and the uniforms are rumbling
|
| Mais ailleurs dans le monde? | But elsewhere in the world? |
| a les g? | has the g? |
| nent pas qu’on creuse des tombes
| do not let us dig graves
|
| Et qui sait ce qu’ils nous r? | And who knows what they tell us? |
| servent
| serve
|
| Quand ils nous guettent t’inqui?te, on sait ce qu’ils ont dans la t? | When they're stalking us, don't worry, we know what's on their minds? |
| te mec
| you man
|
| Ouais, et? | Yeah, and? |
| a fait peur, mais on se bat, et l’Histoire jugera | was scary, but we fight, and history will judge |