| Fallait que je te dise comme je vais mal,
| I had to tell you how bad I am,
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| Par un disque ou par des mots, en restant peace,
| By a record or by words, remaining peace,
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| Enfin fallait que je puisse te dire que je vis un rythme infernal,
| Finally I had to tell you that I live a hellish rhythm,
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| Que je suis dure a berner, born© la fois dure cerner
| That I'm hard to fool, born both hard to pin down
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| J’ai rien d’exceptionnel, j’ai des tas de potes l’habitude
| I ain't nothing special, got loads of homies used to
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| Mais mon meilleur ami s’appelle solitude
| But my best friend is called loneliness
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| Et j’opre en scred, j’en suis malade et sans remde
| And I operate in scred, I'm sick and without remedy
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| Car j’ai appris me taire et pas a demand© de l’aide
| 'Cause I learned to shut up and not ask for help
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| Plutґt r (c)server, non je ne d (c)conne pas avec ce que je ne connais pas
| Rather r (c)server, no I don't d (c)know what I don't know
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| Moi je pr (c)fre observer, penser aux plus grands,
| I pr (c)fre observe, think of the greatest,
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| Naja et les siens, enfant t'(c)tais si loin, j’t’es vu si peu souvent
| Naja and his family, child you were so far away, I saw you so rarely
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| Enfin j’aurais tellement aim© te voir mes cot (c)s,
| Finally I would have liked so much to see you my cot (c)s,
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| Me serrer, m"(c)pauler ou m’empЄcher de pleurer
| Hold me, hold me or keep me from crying
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| Fallait que je te dise Ahmed, mes yeux comme tu es cher
| I had to tell you Ahmed, my eyes how dear you are
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| Tu es si droit, si fort la fois et si fier
| You're so upright, so strong at times and so proud
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| Tu m’a appris me battre, penser a «radoua»,
| You taught me to fight, to think of "radoua",
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| Tu as transform© mon rap en ayant confiance en moi
| You transformed my rap by trusting me
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| Tu as pris le rґle du daron qui t’allait de toute beaut© Lorsque j’ai fais le con tu m’a chicot© Enfin bon grande soeur, je t’aime et te remercie
| You took the role of the daron which suited you very well© When I was fooling around you pissed me off©Finally good big sister, I love you and thank you
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| Ta beaut© et ta pudeur font la fiert© de la famille
| Your beauty and your modesty are the pride of the family
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| Je regrette de pouvoir te le dire je n’y arrive pas
| I regret that I can tell you I can't do it
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| Comme je regrette de ne pas te serrer plus souvent dans mes bras
| How I regret not hugging you more
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| Mais je suis comme § a, mЄme si il n’est pas trop tard
| But I'm like that, even if it's not too late
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| Discrets et peu bavards, on se dit tout par le regard
| Discreet and not very talkative, we tell each other everything by looking
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| Oh … Je te d (c)die
| Oh... I d (c)die you
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| Ses quelques phrases, ses quelques phases et mon respect aussi
| His few sentences, his few phases and my respect too
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| On a grandit ensemble c’est fou comme on se ressemble
| We grew up together it's crazy how similar we are
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| Quand tu tombes moi je pleur, quand j’ai froid toi tu trembles
| When you fall I cry, when I'm cold you shiver
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| Tu t’es assagit ex maboule aujourd’hui § a roule
| You've calmed down ex mad today § it's rolling
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| Ex baba cool tu es devenu papa poule
| Ex baba cool you became dad hen
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| «Passage en arabe»
| "Arabic Passage"
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| Fallait que j’te dise que mon bonheur t’es d (c)di© Et tu peux marcher sur mon coeur car mon coeur et a tes pieds
| I had to tell you that my happiness is d (c) di© And you can walk on my heart because my heart is at your feet
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| Parfois les mots ne sortent pas. | Sometimes the words don't come out. |
| oh oh
| Oh oh
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| Reste tapis dans le silence, ca ne vient pas ca ne sort pas
| Lie in silence, it doesn't come it doesn't come out
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| Moi je ne regrette rien, je crache ses mots qui me d (c)tresse
| Me, I don't regret anything, I spit out his words that d (c)braid me
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| Je m’adresse aux miens et je me lўche et me confesse
| I speak to my own and I let go and confess
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| J’en ai tellement besoin, mon coeur est en feu de d (c)tresse
| I need it so bad, my heart is on fire
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| Comme ca me fait du bien, de vous parler
| How good it makes me talk to you
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| Fallait que je dise tout ce que j’ai
| I had to say everything I have
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| Jamais eu le courage de dire aux gens que j’aime
| Never had the courage to tell people I love
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| A cause du temp (c)rament que j’ai
| Because of the temp (c)rament that I have
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| Dur de l'(c)crire encore plus dur de le rapper
| Hard to (c)write it even harder to rap it
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| Mais ca me soulage de leurs dire ce que je pense et de leurs rappeler
| But it relieves me to tell them what I think and remind them
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| Leur importance Abdelkarim petit frre,
| Their importance Abdelkarim little brother,
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| je me souviens de ta naissance comme si c'(c)tait hier,
| I remember your birth like it (it) was yesterday,
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| Devenu pre de cette petitee perle appel (c)e Cha®nez
| Became the father of this little pearl called (c)e Cha®nez
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| Ma premire nice, des confidences on s’en ai jamais faite
| My first nice, confidences we never made
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| T’es un peu comme moi, tu gardes tout pour toi
| You're kinda like me, you keep it all to yourself
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| Ta toujours (c)t© de ceux qui agissent et qui ne parlent pas
| Your always (c)t© of those who act and do not speak
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| J’t’es pris la tЄte, j’t’es mis des coups
| I took your head, I hit you
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| J’t’es saoul©, j’suis d (c)sol© Mais des fois tu m’a pouss© a bout
| I'm drunk ©, I'm d (c) sol © But sometimes you pushed me to the limit
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| Je repenses a notre enfance, toujours fourr© ensemble
| I think back to our childhood, always stuffed together
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| Amoureux du rap on a toujours eu ca dans le sang
| Rap lovers we always had it in our blood
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| J’ai mal quand je vois que t’es mal et ton silence me tue
| I hurt when I see you hurt and your silence kills me
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| Petit bonhomme, d (c)brouillard qui a toujours su
| Little guy, d(c)fog who always knew
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| Se d (c)merder mЄme avec que dal dans les poches
| Fuck off even with that dal in your pockets
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| Moi j’ai pas montr© le bon exemple je suis pas exempt de tout reproche
| Me, I didn't set a good example, I'm not beyond reproach
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| Bref on a grandit, t’as fais ta vie
| In short, we grew up, you made your life
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| Quoi qu’il arrive je suis l
| No matter what I'm here
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| Tu sais que tu peux compter sur moi
| You know you can count on me
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| Anissa petite ninou petit bout de chou
| Anissa little ninou little piece of cabbage
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| Cette fille de la mi-fa pour qui je donnerais tout
| That mid-fa girl I'd give anything for
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| Petite soeur ch (c)rie, ta grandit trop vite
| Little sister ch (c)rie, your growing up too fast
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| un caractre bien tremp© Ta toujours (c)t© trop speed
| a well-tempered character Your always (c)t© too fast
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| T’es comme maman toujours le coeur sur le main
| You're like mom always heart on hand
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| Tu te laisse pas marcher sur les pieds
| You don't let yourself be walked all over
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| Entre nous c’est relation compliqu (c)e
| Between us it's a complicated relationship
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| J’fais pas le taliban mais le sang me monte la tЄte
| I don't do the Taliban but the blood goes to my head
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| Juste le fait de penser qu’un fils de pute ait de mauvaises pens (c)es
| Just thinking a motherfucker got bad thoughts
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| Petite soeurette, j’veux pas qu’on t’assimile
| Little sister, I don't want you to be assimilated
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| A ces petites beurettes qui font les belles en ville,
| To these little Arabs who are preening in town,
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| Ma vie est la tienne ne me d (c)§ oit pas
| My life is yours don't hear me
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| J’tЂ™ai jamais dis «Je t’aime» alors je te le dis l.
| I've never said "I love you" so I'm telling you.
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| Maman femme de courage depuis ton plus jeune ўge
| Mom woman of courage since your youngest age
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| Entre les m (c)nages et les maladies graves
| Between m (c)nages and critical illnesses
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| Ta (c)lev© tes frres et soeur, tu t’es tu© la tўche
| You (c)raised your brothers and sister, you killed yourself
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| Une vie ponctu (c)e de malheur dont je ne ferais pas lЂ™(c)talage
| A life punctuated by misfortune that I wouldn't flaunt
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| J’te rends hommage, | I pay homage to you |
| Anissa et toi vous Єtes les seules femmes qui a dans mon coeur
| You and Anissa are the only women in my heart
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| Vous Єtes plus que mon moteur
| You are more than my engine
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| Papa, j’voulais te dire que t’es un homme brave,
| Dad, I wanted to tell you that you are a brave man,
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| Un homme en or, honnette et droit le matin quand tu pars
| A golden man, honest and upright in the morning when you leave
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| Pour aller bosser dur et rentrer tard,
| To go to work hard and come home late,
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| J’vois que t’es fatigu©, Tu te plains jamais,
| I see you're tired, you never complain,
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| tu nous a enseign© les bonnes vertus et tu nous a vЄtu et nourris
| you taught us good virtues and you clothed and fed us
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| Fallait que je dise ma famille que je les aime, ca y’est c’est dit
| I had to tell my family that I love them, that's it
|
| Parfois les mots ne sortent pas. | Sometimes the words don't come out. |
| oh oh
| Oh oh
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| Reste tapis dans le silence, ca ne vient pas ca ne sort pas
| Lie in silence, it doesn't come it doesn't come out
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| Moi je ne regrette rien, je crache ses mots qui me d (c)tresse
| Me, I don't regret anything, I spit out his words that d (c)braid me
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| Je m’adresse aux miens et je me lўche et me confesse
| I speak to my own and I let go and confess
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| J’en ai tellement besoin, mon coeur est en feu de d (c)tresse
| I need it so bad, my heart is on fire
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| Comme ca me fait du bien, de vous parler
| How good it makes me talk to you
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| Chers amis, je vais peut Єtre vous d (c)cevoir
| Dear friends, I may (c)receive you
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| Pardons d'(c)taler ma vie, de raconter mon histoire
| Forgive me for (c)spreading my life, telling my story
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| Mais j’ai le coeur qui saigne et l’esprit tortur© Et venir vous parler j’ai pas la force
| But I have a bleeding heart and a tortured mind And come and talk to you I don't have the strength
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| Pour parl© j'ai choisi de ne pas vous dire qui je suis
| For spoken I chose not to tell you who I am
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| Sans vous parler de ma couleur ni de mon pays
| Without telling you about my color or my country
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| Mais mon pr (c)nom en a souffert
| But my first name suffered
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| Vous l’avez (c)touff© parce que c'(c)tait le mЄme que mon pre
| You (c)choked it because it (c)was the same as my dad
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| Vous m’avez construit en mЄme temps d (c)truit
| You built me at the same time d (c)drought
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| J’suis que vous m’aimez je vous aime aussi
| I am that you love me I love you too
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| Comprenez ma douleur, celle d’un enfant qui pleure
| Understand my pain, that of a crying child
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| Il ne sait pas qui il est, ignore combien ca vous leurre
| He don't know who he is, don't know how much that fools you
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| Vous ne le connaissez pas, vous ne savez pas l’entendre
| You don't know it, you don't know how to hear it
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| Il vous a souvent souri alors qu’il pensait a ce pendre
| He often smiled at you as he thought about hanging
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| Il s’est blotti dans la silence,
| He huddled in silence,
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| Il fait souvent le clown pour masquer ses souffrances
| He often clowns around to hide his pain
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| Il s’est souvent enferm© dans l’armoire
| He often locked himself in the closet
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| Mais tant d'(c)bauches de tristesse (c)troites de d (c)sespoir
| But so many (c)drafts of sadness (c)close to d (c)hope
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| Se boucher les oreilles, vivez son cauchemar
| Plug your ears, live his nightmare
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| Le coeur pi (c)tin© par des choses qu’un enfant ne doit savoir
| Heart pi (c)tin© by things a child shouldn't know
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| Aujourd’hui il porte sa peine
| Today he bears his pain
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| Il pardonne, Maman je t’aime
| He forgives, Mom I love you
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| Accepte mes excuses, pardonne ma jalousie
| Accept my apologies, forgive my jealousy
|
| J’t’es abandonn© face cette maladie
| I left you in the face of this disease
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| Y’avait ce man au chevet de ton lit
| There was this man at your bedside
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| Et ma peur de te voir partir pour le paradis
| And my fear of seeing you go to heaven
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| Fallait que je te demande pardon
| I had to beg your pardon
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| Oh pardon maman, je m’allonge tes pieds
| Oh sorry mum, I'm laying your feet
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| Jah dit en dessous yЂ™a le paradis
| Jah says under there is heaven
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| Et toi fifi, grande soeur, tu es devenu mre
| And you fifi, big sister, you became a mother
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| Anais ta petite fleure oh tu sais j’en suis fire
| Anais your little flower oh you know I'm fired
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| J’ai juste p (c)t© les plombs quand j’ai su quЂ™elle nЂ™aurait pas de pre
| I just freaked out when I found out she wouldn't have a pre
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| Regarde bien son enfance et la notre sont similaires
| Take a good look at his childhood and ours are similar
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| Souvent je t’entends quand elle prononce papa
| Often I hear you when she pronounces papa
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| Tu fais comme maman tu lui dis tais-toi
| You do like mom you tell her shut up
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| Assieds-toi ferme les yeux, m (c)dite et rappelle toi
| Sit down close your eyes, m (c)say and remember
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| Et ouvre les yeux sur ta fille car cette petite fille c’est toi
| And open your eyes to your daughter 'cause that little girl is you
|
| Toute les deux je vous aime
| I love you both
|
| On a le mЄme sang qui coule dans les veines (je vous le redis)
| We got the same blood running through our veins (I'll tell you again)
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| Toute les deux je vous aime
| I love you both
|
| Prot (c)ge ta princesse tu es une reine
| Protect (c)ge your princess you're a queen
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| Ma sista ch (c)rie
| Ma sista ch (c)rie
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| Il est peut Єtre le feu et la glace
| He may be fire and ice
|
| Mais je suis l pour casser ce qui te tracasse
| But I'm here to break what's bothering you
|
| Si ta un blЄme tu sais quoi faire
| If you have a problem you know what to do
|
| Appelle juste ton frre
| Just call your brother
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| Et toi vieux lion, de l’autre cot© de la plante
| And you old lion, on the other side of the plant
|
| Si ton t (c)l (c)phone sonne pas, te prends pas la tЄte
| If your t (c)l (c)phone doesn't ring, don't worry
|
| Tu sais mon coeur (c)clatera au son de ta voix
| You know my heart will (c)burst at the sound of your voice
|
| Mais souvent je regarde les (c)toiles et celle qui brille oui c’est toi
| But often I look at the (c)stars and the one that shines yes it's you
|
| Tu ma transmis ta force tu m’a tout appris
| You passed on your strength to me, you taught me everything
|
| Donner un sens ma couleur, forger mon esprit
| Give meaning to my color, shape my mind
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| Papa merci pour le temps pass© dans ma vie
| Daddy thank you for the time in my life
|
| Mon vieux lion je t’aime
| my old lion i love you
|
| Parfois les mots ne sortent pas. | Sometimes the words don't come out. |
| oh oh
| Oh oh
|
| Reste tapis dans le silence, ca ne vient pas ca ne sort pas
| Lie in silence, it doesn't come it doesn't come out
|
| Moi je ne regrette rien, je crache ses mots qui me d (c)tresse
| Me, I don't regret anything, I spit out his words that d (c)braid me
|
| Je m’adresse aux miens et je me lўche et me confesse
| I speak to my own and I let go and confess
|
| J’en ai tellement besoin, mon coeur est en feu de d (c)tresse
| I need it so bad, my heart is on fire
|
| Comme ca me fait du bien, de vous parler | How good it makes me talk to you |