| Comme Chico Mendes je m'élève contre Babylone
| Like Chico Mendes I rise against Babylon
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| Mon microphone résonne
| My microphone is ringing
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| Depuis que mes voyelles fusionnent
| Since my vowels merge
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| À mes consonnes, à ce que je mentionne, à ce que je cautionne
| To my consonants, to what I mention, to what I endorse
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| Au minimum ma lutte est déjà platinium
| At least my wrestling is already platinum
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| Avant c'était les K7 qui circulaient, maintenant ce sont les MP3
| Used to be K7s going around, now it's MP3s
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| Même péta, les CD sont toujours là, circulent toujours gars
| Same fart, the CDs are still there, still circulating man
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| Si tu ne t’occupes pas de politique
| If you don't mind politics
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| La politique s’occupe de toi
| Politics takes care of you
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| Depuis que j’ai mis le doigt sur les Illuminazis
| Since I put my finger on the Illuminazi
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| L’industrie pousse des cris, le public réagit
| The industry shouts, the public reacts
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| On me parle de lutte des classes
| They talk to me about class struggle
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| Quand je parle de lutte des masses
| When I talk about the struggle of the masses
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| On me parle de perdre la face
| They talk to me about losing face
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| Quand je nomme les noms de sale race
| When I name dirty race names
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| Mais mec, l’Histoire a été écrite par les vainqueurs pour les vaincus
| But man, history was written by the winners for the losers
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| Remets tout en cause jusqu'à la date de naissance de Jésus
| Question everything until the birth date of Jesus
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| Et même avant quand il n’y avait pas d’Israël
| And even before when there was no Israel
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| Quand c’est l'Égypte qui régnait sur l’histoire d’Ismaël
| When Egypt ruled the story of Ishmael
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| Le plus dur est d’accepter de s'être fait baiser
| The hard part is accepting that you've been fucked
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| Pas le baiser de l’amour, mais la fornication du passé
| Not the kiss of love, but the fornication of the past
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| Tu crois à tout car tu ne vérifies rien
| You believe in everything because you don't check anything
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| Et quand tu vérifies, tu empreintes leurs faux chemins
| And when you check, you follow their false paths
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| Ce siècle comme le dernier commence très mal
| This century like the last begins very badly
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| Babylone se frotte les mains quand les moutons ont la gale
| Babylon rubs her hands when the sheep have scabies
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| Mais je sais de quoi je parle, ça fait longtemps que j’ai réagi
| But I know what I'm talking about, it's been a long time since I reacted
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| Sur l'échelle de Richter, Obama est pire que Sarkozy
| On the Richter scale, Obama is worse than Sarkozy
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| Babylon shit-stem it haffe go down
| Babylon shit-stem it haffe go down
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| Yo we say we come fe burn them up with words powers and sound
| Yo we say we come fe burn them up with words powers and sound
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| Those without love ina dem heart haffe go drown
| Those without love ina dem heart haffe go drunk
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| Yo free up the prisoners dem from the jail and dungeons
| Yo free up the prisoners dem from the jail and dungeons
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| Babylon shit-stem it haffe go down
| Babylon shit-stem it haffe go down
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| Say we come fe burn them up with word powers and sound
| Say we come fe burn them up with word powers and sound
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| The truth we come reveal to every daughters and sons
| The truth we come reveal to every daughters and sons
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| Dem can’t break we faith we shine Bright like the sun
| Dem can't break we faith we shine Bright like the sun
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| On ne me ment plus: l’urbanisme c’est l’enfer
| They don't lie to me anymore: urban planning is hell
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| Ça rapporte des milliards à Bill Gates ou Lagardère
| It brings billions to Bill Gates or Lagardère
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| Moi je repars loin des Facebook, des Myspaces, des Yahoo
| Me, I'm leaving far from Facebook, Myspaces, Yahoo
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| Des Google, des Microsoft, de la toile qui tord le cou
| From the Googles, from the Microsofts, from the neck-wringing web
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| L’ONU ne m’a pas mis nu, l’OTAN ne gère pas mon temps
| The UN didn't strip me naked, NATO don't manage my time
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| Je suis l’intrus dans toute rue, car je suis gênant en tout temps
| I'm the odd one out on any street, 'cause I'm in the way all the time
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| Et l’Histoire on ne me la raconte pas, c’est moi qui la déchiffre
| And the story isn't told to me, I'm the one who deciphers it
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| Je l'écris même, je sculpte la Terre à coup de griffes
| I even write it, I sculpt the Earth with my claws
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| Je ne suis plus bankable, malgré mon nom de famille
| I'm no longer bankable, despite my last name
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| Mais ça ne m’empêche pas d'être le héros dans ta ville
| But that don't stop me from being the hero in your town
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| Depuis mes premières rimes, ils ont vu que j'étais différent
| From my first rhymes, they saw I was different
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| Eux courtisaient le Diable, moi j'étais le sage errant
| They courted the Devil, I was the wandering sage
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| Donc Cass Sunstein me traque sur internet
| So Cass Sunstein is stalking me on the internet
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| Après Prison Planète, il aimerait bien voir ma tête
| After Prison Planet, he would like to see my face
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| S’associe à Asia Netcom et In-Q-tel
| Partners with Asia Netcom and In-Q-tel
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| Pour transformer la toile en contrôle de cervelles
| To turn the web into brain control
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| Et ça laisse des séquelles chez la masse qui râle
| And it leaves scars in the grumbling masses
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| Mais elle râle si loin de la commission trilatérale
| But she bitch so far from the trilateral commission
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| Que Babylone se réjouit d’un peuple lobotomisé
| That Babylon rejoices over a brainwashed people
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| Aujourd’hui prisonnier de la cybersécurité
| Today a prisoner of cybersecurity
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| Ils surfent tous comme des ouf, observés par l'œil d’Horus
| They're all surfing like crazy, watched by the eye of Horus
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| Pensant être libres dans cette brousse contrôlée par banques et plus
| Thinking of being free in this bush controlled by banks and more
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| Nul n’est prophète dans son pays, encore moins dans les bacs
| No one is a prophet in his country, even less in the bins
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| Et dans mille ans, on te dira: «Ainsi parlait Zarathou’Squat»
| And in a thousand years you will be told, "Thus spake Zarathou'Squat"
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| Babylon shitstem it haffe go down
| Babylon shitstem it haffe go down
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| Yo we say we come fe burn them up with words powers and sound
| Yo we say we come fe burn them up with words powers and sound
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| Those without love ina dem heart haffe go drown
| Those without love ina dem heart haffe go drunk
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| Yo free up the prisoners dem from the jail and dungeons
| Yo free up the prisoners dem from the jail and dungeons
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| Babylon system it haffe go down
| Babylon system it haffe go down
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| Say we come fe burn them up with word powers and sound
| Say we come fe burn them up with word powers and sound
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| The truth we come reveal to every daughters and sons
| The truth we come reveal to every daughters and sons
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| Dem can’t break we faith we shine Bright like the sun
| Dem can't break we faith we shine Bright like the sun
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| Well nuff of dem heart nah clean
| Well nuff of dem heart nah clean
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| So we come fe burn them up them and their evilous team
| So we come fe burn them up them and their evilous team
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| Them can’t get we out through, all them plot and them scemes
| Them can't get we out through, all them plot and them scemes
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| See the getho people them cup full to the brim
| See the getho people them cup full to the brim
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| The judgement a burst up ina them face like steam
| The judgment a burst up ina them face like steam
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| We silent like the river and we flow like the stream
| We silent like the river and we flow like the stream
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| Them can’t take the heat nor the fire we a fling
| Them can't take the heat nor the fire we a fling
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| Upon the pagants kingdom the time bell a ring time bell a ring
| Upon the pagans kingdom the time bell a ring time bell a ring
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| They tried their best to get we out but we’re still around
| They tried their best to get we out but we're still around
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| The most high set our feet upon a solid ground
| The most high set our feet upon a solid ground
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| No sir dem could never get we down
| No sir dem could never get we down
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| Jah protect us from the evil and the spies around
| Jah protect us from the evil and the spies around
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| Well nuff getho youths me see them leading astray
| Well nuff getho youths me see them leading astray
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| They try to kick we out boxe the food from we plate
| They try to kick we out boxe the food from we plate
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| But no matter what a gwan still we gwan hold the faith
| But no matter what a gwan still we gwan hold the faith
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| See the wicked a tremble trhough them life is at stake
| See the wicked a tremble through them life is at stake
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| Babylon shitstem it haffe go down
| Babylon shitstem it haffe go down
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| Yo we say we come fe burn them up with words powers and sound
| Yo we say we come fe burn them up with words powers and sound
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| Those without love ina dem heart haffe go drown
| Those without love ina dem heart haffe go drunk
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| Yo free up the prisoners dem from the jail and dungeons
| Yo free up the prisoners dem from the jail and dungeons
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| Babylon system it haffe go down
| Babylon system it haffe go down
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| Say we come fe burn them up with word powers and sound
| Say we come fe burn them up with word powers and sound
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| The truth we come reveal to every daughters and sons
| The truth we come reveal to every daughters and sons
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| Dem can’t break we faith we shine Bright like the sun | Dem can't break we faith we shine Bright like the sun |