| C’est le genre de type qui aimait déconner
| He's the kind of guy who liked to mess around
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| Avec ses potes, devant les meufs sort son bluff
| With his friends, in front of the girls comes out his bluff
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| Aime bien jouer les gros bonnets
| Likes to play the big shots
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| Il les embobinait, en plus de ça mythonait
| He bamboozled them, on top of that mythonized
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| Si il faut promet la lune pour les cartonner
| If you have to promise the moon to hit them
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| Dès qu’elles veulent moyenner, pas de tel-hô mais
| As soon as they want to average, no such-ho but
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| C’est la cave, d’toute manière du prix des 'tasses tu seras couronné
| This is the cellar, anyway of the price of 'cups you will be crowned
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| À la baraque joue l’daron pour mieux sanctionner
| At the barrack plays the daron to better punish
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| Sa sœur espionnée, bastonnée et puis cloisonnée
| His sister spied, beaten and then locked up
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| Si il pouvait wAllah elle serait emprisonnée
| If he could wAllah she would be imprisoned
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| Disproportionné, j’demande à Dieu de le pardonner
| Disproportionate, I ask God to forgive him
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| Un soir dans le hall un d’ses potes lui a téléphoné
| One evening in the lobby one of his friends called him
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| Y’a du plan à l’hôtel, une meuf qui se fait tourner
| There's a plan at the hotel, a girl who is being turned
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| On a dit non, y’avait moi, Ibrahim et Coné
| We said no, there was me, Ibrahim and Coné
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| «Bande de bouffons» voilà l’genre de discours qu’il tenait
| "Band of buffoons" that's the kind of speech he held
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| Arrive sur place, baisse son froc, commence à donner
| Get there, drop her pants, start giving
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| Puis au premier cri c’est sa voix qu’il reconnait
| Then at the first cry it's her voice that he recognizes
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| Avec sa sœur nez à nez, il a pris le chemin erroné
| With his sister face to face, he took the wrong path
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| Pète un câble et c’est le seum qui vient dominer
| Go crazy and it's the seum that comes to dominate
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| Tue sa sœur de ses mains, on a pas pu le raisonner
| Kill his sister with his hands, we couldn't reason with him
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| Le soir même sur sa tempe son Glock a détonné | That same evening on his temple his Glock went off |
| On était partis pour s’aimer d’un amour pour 6 vies
| We left to love each other with a love for 6 lives
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| Amoureux depuis l'école, étaient Yvan et Sylvie
| In love since school, were Yvan and Sylvie
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| Rien d’ombrageux au-dessus de leur tête
| Nothing Shady Above Their Heads
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| Un mariage heureux célébré par le prêtre
| A happy marriage celebrated by the priest
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| Yvan est si bon que Sylvie en fait sa vie
| Yvan is so good that Sylvie makes a living out of it
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| Une image de bonheur que le monde entier envie
| An image of happiness that the whole world envies
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| Mais à l’origine du proverbe «Gentil n’a qu’un œil»
| But the origin of the proverb "Gentile has only one eye"
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| Il y a Yvan, sa bouteille et son fauteuil
| There's Yvan, his bottle and his armchair
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| En effet, Yvan est plus que violent
| Indeed, Yvan is more than violent
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| Quand il abuse de la boisson son amour devient brûlant
| When he abuses the drink his love gets hot
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| Un alcoolisme inavoué subit par ses proches
| An unacknowledged alcoholism suffered by his relatives
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| Qui lui coûtera son boulot et le creux de ses poches
| Which will cost him his job and the hollow of his pockets
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| Sylvie peu confiante lui annonce qu’il sera père
| Sylvie, not very confident, announces to him that he will be a father
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| D’un garçon qu’ils appelleront comme le père
| Of a boy they will call after the father
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| Yvan est aux anges et pour fêter rempli son verre
| Yvan is in heaven and to celebrate filled his glass
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| De sa réaction c’est sa femme qu’il perd
| From his reaction it is his wife that he loses
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| Voilà 10 ans que Sylvie vit isolée
| Sylvie has been living in isolation for 10 years
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| Avec petit Yvan, le fils d’un mari désolé
| With little Yvan, the son of a sorry husband
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| Et ils alternent le garde, se comportent en bons parents
| And they take turns guarding, behaving like good parents
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| Petit Yvan n’a pas de problèmes apparents
| Petit Yvan has no apparent problems
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| Mais il sait très bien qu’en son père loup sommeil
| But he knows very well that in his wolf father sleeps
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| Les cicatrices de sa mère par les tessons de bouteilles | Her mother's scars from broken bottles |
| Ces derniers temps Yvan et Sylvie se querellent
| Lately Yvan and Sylvie have been quarreling
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| Chez qui ira petit Yvan le soir de Noël
| Where will little Yvan go on Christmas Eve
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| L’enfant veut la mère mais le père se fout de la mère
| The child wants the mother but the father doesn't care about the mother
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| Il lui frappe le visage et l’histoire dégénère
| He punches her in the face and the story escalates
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| «Tu m’as volé mon fils durant 10 ans, ce soir il est à moi que tu le veuilles
| "You stole my son from me for 10 years, tonight he's mine if you want him
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| ou non»
| or not"
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| Il la frappe et le sang sort de sa bouche
| He hits her and blood comes out of her mouth
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| Sylvie perds connaissance et sur le sol se couche
| Sylvie loses consciousness and on the ground lies down
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| Mais petit Yvan a le cœur rempli de haine
| But little Yvan has a heart full of hate
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| Il recharge son fusil et abat son paternel
| He reloads his gun and shoots his father
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| Lui (lui) c’est un jeune beur (jeune beur) issu d’un quartier sensible
| He (him) is a young beur (young beur) from a sensitive neighborhood
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| Elle (elle) d’un autre genre, d’un autre lieu bien plus paisible
| She (she) of another kind, from another much more peaceful place
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| Lui (lui) n’a plus d'école, n’a pas de goal, n’a plus qu’le vide
| He (him) no longer has a school, has no goal, only has emptiness
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| Elle (elle) n’a pas de potes mais a les poches pleines de liquide
| She (she) has no friends but has pockets full of cash
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| Lui (lui) vit en famille dans un 2 pièces à 6
| He (him) lives with his family in a 2-room apartment for 6
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| Elle (elle) seulement à 3 dans une immense villa de riche
| She (she) only 3 in a huge villa of rich
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| Lui trime, elle pas, lui crie, elle pas, lui fuit, elle pas, lui ci, elle ça
| He toils, she doesn't, shouts at him, she doesn't, runs away from him, she doesn't, he this, she that
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| Lui (lui) fait des erreurs mais elle aussi
| He (him) makes mistakes but so does she
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| Mais à ce jour lui a payé ses torts, elle récidivera à vie | But so far paid her for her wrongs, she will reoffend for life |
| Lui (lui) se fait du souci pour sa mère, elle en fait aussi mais à la sienne
| He (him) worries about his mother, she does too, but about his
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| Le pire c’est qu’il s’avère que
| The worst part is that it turns out
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| Lui (lui) souhaite être comme elle, elle de n'être pas comme lui
| He (him) wishes to be like her, she not to be like him
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| Lui sait très bien que elle, elle se fiche bien de lui
| He knows very well that she, she doesn't care about him
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| Lui (lui) peine encore pour s’intégrer
| He (him) is still struggling to fit in
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| Elle (elle) sniffe des rails qu’elle se paie pour se désintégrer
| She (she) sniffs rails that she pays herself to disintegrate
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| Lui (lui) a des rêves mais elle (elle) les réalise
| He (he) has dreams but she (she) makes them come true
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| Lui (lui) c’est sa souffrance qu’il traîne, elle ses sous qu’elle trie
| Him (him) it's his suffering that he drags, she her pennies that she sorts
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| Lui (lui) persévère quand elle (elle) se démotive
| He (her) perseveres when she (she) becomes demotivated
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| Lui (lui) perd ses vers pendant que elle se dit que
| He (him) loses his verses while she thinks that
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| Lui (lui) et elle (elle) n’ont pas les mêmes vies
| He (him) and she (her) don't have the same lives
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| Lui (lui) les flics le pistent, elle le fisc l’ennui
| He (him) the cops track him, she the taxman boredom
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| Lui (lui) et elle (elle) se verront même pas parce que
| He (him) and she (she) won't even see each other because
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| Lui (lui) et elle ont un destin qui ne se croisent pas | He (he) and she have a destiny that does not intersect |