| Je porte le dîn comme un trophée
| I wear din like a trophy
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| L’Afrique comme une couronne
| Africa as a crown
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| Mon bled comme fierté
| My bled as pride
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| C’est l’héritage de la daronne
| This is the legacy of the daronne
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| Je suis, venu poser et juste causer
| I came to pose and just chat
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| De ma 'sique, ce mouv' me file la nausée
| Of my 'sique, this move' gives me nausea
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| Oui j’ai laissé battre mon cœur
| Yes I let my heart beat
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| Au rythme des percus
| To the rhythm of percussion
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| Ma vie, son sens, moi je l’ai perdu
| My life, its meaning, I lost it
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| Parti dans tous les sens, j’ai changé il me semble
| Gone all over the place, I've changed it seems
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| Ici on s’arrose d’essence et après on couche ensemble
| Here we douse each other with gasoline and then we sleep together
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| D’emblée, je l’affirme et je le signe
| From the outset, I affirm it and I sign it
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| L'être humain me fait trembler, j’hallucine
| The human being makes me tremble, I hallucinate
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| J’aimerais qu’on m’aime pour ce que je suis
| I would like to be loved for who I am
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| Non pas pour ce que je fais
| Not for what I do
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| Mes amis le savent, c’est ma vie, je m’y suis fait
| My friends know it's my life, I got used to it
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| T’sais, je n’y crois plus, j’ai trop halluciné
| You know, I don't believe it anymore, I hallucinated too much
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| Je n’rêve pas d'être V.I.P. devant des pétasses cocaïnées
| I don't dream of being a V.I.P. in front of cocaine bitches
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| Je n’rêve pas de pouvoir ou d'être supérieur
| I don't dream of power or being superior
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| Mais que ma plus grande richesse soit intérieure
| But let my greatest wealth be within
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| So just live up to your dreams
| So just live up to your dreams
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| Though as hard as they may seem
| Thought as hard as they may seem
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| Rise and flow just like a stream
| Rise and flow just like a stream
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| Just believe in your hopes and spread your wings
| Just believe in your hopes and spread your wings
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| Et à la conquête du bonheur, sans penser aux écus
| And to the conquest of happiness, without thinking of crowns
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| Mais j’ai vu que s’ils ne le font pas, ils y contribuent
| But I saw that if they don't, they help
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| Et une course contre la montre, qui n’est pas des moindres
| And a race against the clock, which is not the least
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| On court tous à sa rencontre et sans jamais l’atteindre
| We all run towards it and never reach it
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| On peut, le voir au loin, varier comme les saisons
| We can, see it from afar, vary like the seasons
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| Mais il reste insaisissable comme l’horizon
| But it remains elusive like the horizon
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| Il est, mon piston, ce qui me motive
| He is my piston, what drives me
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| L’espoir est le charbon placé dans la locomotive
| Hope is the coal placed in the locomotive
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| Entre pleurs et larmes, sans faire le prof de philo
| Between tears and tears, without being a philosophy teacher
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| Ayant le choix des armes, j’ai opté pour un stylo
| Having a choice of weapons, I opted for a pen
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| Mes, rêves, m’aident à avancer
| My, dreams, help me to move forward
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| Frelo je, crève, si je ne peux pas les toucher
| Frelo I, die, if I can't touch them
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| Je rêve de gosses, de filles, du fruit d’un sentiment
| I dream of kids, of girls, of the fruit of a feeling
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| D’une vie de famille, non pas d’un joli bâtiment
| Of a family life, not of a pretty building
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| Cette vie me donne du piment, mais me rendent meilleur
| This life gives me spice, but makes me better
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| Progressivement ils m’aident à apprendre de mes erreurs
| Gradually they help me learn from my mistakes
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| So just live up to your dreams
| So just live up to your dreams
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| Though as hard as they may seem
| Thought as hard as they may seem
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| Rise and flow just like a stream
| Rise and flow just like a stream
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| Just believe in your hopes and spread your wings
| Just believe in your hopes and spread your wings
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| Moi je suis un voyageur mais ils veulent briser mes rêves
| Me I'm a traveler but they want to break my dreams
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| Me font détester les règles
| Make me hate the rules
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| Oui je pars loin dans mes pensées
| Yes I go far in my thoughts
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| Au-delà des frontières, je viens danser sous une pluie de chimères
| Beyond the borders, I come to dance under a rain of chimeras
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| Je quitte la Terre, mets de côté les guerres
| I leave the Earth, put aside the wars
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| Voici ce qui me libère, de cette réalité
| This is what frees me, from this reality
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| Et au final je m’y perds, paumé sans repère
| And in the end I get lost, clueless
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| Oui car je erre entre fiction et vérité
| Yes because I wander between fiction and truth
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| So how are you gonna stop me
| So how are you gonna stop me
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| With beside me
| With beside me
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| And set them right there for me
| And set them right there for me
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| Said I’m gonna take a stand
| Said I'm gonna take a stand
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| 'Cause the future’s in my hand
| 'Cause the future's in my hand
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| I’m gonna set my spirit free
| I'm gonna set my spirit free
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| So just live up to your dreams
| So just live up to your dreams
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| Though as hard as they may seem
| Thought as hard as they may seem
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| Rise and flow just like a stream
| Rise and flow just like a stream
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| Just believe in your hopes and spread your wings | Just believe in your hopes and spread your wings |