| Dad, tell me that beautiful story again
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| of gendarmes and fascists, and students with
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| bangs, and sweet urban guerrilla in pants
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| of bell, and songs of the Rolling,
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| and girls in miniskirts.
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| dad, tell me again, all the fun you had, spoiling old age to rusty
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| dictators, and how you sang Al Vent, and you occupied
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| the Sorbonne in that French May in the days of wine and roses.
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| Dad, tell me again, that beautiful story,
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| of that crazy guerrilla who was killed in Bolivia
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| and whose rifle no one dared to take again
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| and how since that day everything seems uglier.
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| Dad, tell me again that after so many barricades
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| and after so much raised fist and so much spilled blood
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| at the end of the game you couldn't do anything
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| and under the cobblestones there was no beach sand.
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| The defeat was very hard, everything that was dreamed of
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| it rotted in the corners, it was full of cobwebs,
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| and no one sings Al Vent anymore, there are no longer any crazy people,
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| there are no more outcasts, but it has to rain,
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| the square is still dirty.
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| that May is far away, Saint Denis is far away,
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| How far is Jean Paul Sartre, very far that
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| Paris, however sometimes I think that in the end everything
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| It didn't matter: the ostias keep falling on who
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| talk about more.
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| and the same rotten dead of cruelty continue
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| now die in Bosnia those who died in Vietnam, now die in Bosnia those who died
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| in Vietnam.
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| By Fistan Majere |