| Repeating of the-
| Repeating of the-
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| Singing echoes of the-
| Singing echoes of the-
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| Reproduction of the same thing
| Reproduction of the same thing
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| Trying to get a bit of the sunshine…
| Trying to get a bit of the sunshine…
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| Le ciel fait grise mine, le soleil perd ses rayons
| The sky is gray, the sun loses its rays
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| Nouvel automne qui rend triste, la fine mine de mon crayon
| New autumn that makes my pencil lead sad
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| Le JT range people, zik, crime dans le même rayon
| The JT ranges people, zik, crime in the same department
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| Honneur, justice perdant face au fric, frime souvent triomphe
| Honor, justice losing to money, often showing off triumphs
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| De la poussière sur le sillon (non), le disque n’est pas rayé (non)
| Dust on groove (no), record not scratched (no)
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| Rap rebellion, bélier défonce les portillons
| Rap rebellion, ram breaks down the gates
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| Génération dépareillée à la quête du billet
| Mismatched generation in search of the ticket
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| Quel que soit le PIB du pays l’oseille nous rend cannibale
| Whatever the country's GDP, sorrel makes us cannibalistic
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| La tension est palpable, les mecs s’insultent mais ne se parlent pas
| The tension is palpable, the guys insult each other but do not speak
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| Les petits piétinent les instits, veulent imiter les sales types
| The little ones trample the teachers, want to imitate the dirty guys
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| Les petites astiquent des bittes et trouvent ça fantastique
| Girls polish dicks and think it's fantastic
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| Je tourne en rond, compte quatre piges en une saison
| I go around in circles, count four rods in a season
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| Maison-Studio, Studio-Maison, encore une session
| House-Studio, Studio-House, another session
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| Entre grèves et manifs, comme d’hab' je fête mon anniv'
| Between strikes and protests, as usual I'm celebrating my birthday
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| Noir à lunettes moins naïf, à chaque nouvel automne
| Black bespectacled less naive, every new fall
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| Repeating of the-
| Repeating of the-
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| Singing echoes of the-
| Singing echoes of the-
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| Reproduction of the same thing
| Reproduction of the same thing
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| Trying to get a bit of the sunshine…
| Trying to get a bit of the sunshine…
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| (Bit of the sunshine)
| (Bit of the sunshine)
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| (Little bit of the sunshine, hey)
| (Little bit of the sunshine, hey)
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| Repeating of the-
| Repeating of the-
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| Singing echoes of the-
| Singing echoes of the-
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| Reproduction of the same thing
| Reproduction of the same thing
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| Trying to get a bit of the sunshine…
| Trying to get a bit of the sunshine…
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| Ici on boxe à la Rocky, mec
| Here we boxing Rocky style, man
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| Doc' pas besoin de ta fuckin' aide
| Doc' don't need your fuckin' help
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| Si les condés toquent en bas des blocs, c’est pas pour copiner
| If the cops knock down the blocks, it's not to be friends
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| J’accumule les fausses notes, les clopinettes
| I accumulate the false notes, the hobbies
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| Les procédés trop funestes, les pauses clopes et les coffees nègres
| The processes too fatal, the cigarette breaks and the nigger coffees
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| Les poches vides, trop diraient qu’on stagne
| Empty pockets, too many would say that we are stagnating
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| Mais les robinets sont stables, on s’active et bosse depuis longtime
| But the taps are steady, we bustin' and bumpin' for a long time
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| Y a que comme comme comme ça qu’on peut peaufiner son style
| There's only so you can refine your style
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| Depuis gosse gosse je pose comme un forcené nostalgique
| Since kid kid I pose like a nostalgic madman
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| Sur mes mains je comptais les cloques par dix, dans la rue
| On my hands I counted the blisters by ten, in the street
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| Posté comme un tox ou un pauvre artiste
| Posted as a junkie or a poor artist
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| J’ai vu des khos virer atroces, et des potes partir
| I've seen khos turn atrocious, and homies leave
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| Des gamines fêlées qu’on accoste à des heures tardives, déconné
| Cracked kids who we accost at late hours, screwed up
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| Malgré les cônes, les plans sales
| Despite the cones, the dirty plans
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| Les échecs à l'école, boy, les coups donnés dans le sac
| Chess at school, boy, kicking in the sack
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| Avouez qu’il serait temps qu’on décolle, tout donner, tant le savent
| Admit it's time we took off, give it our all, they both know
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| Les poumons goudronnés, je fume la prod' comme une drogue indispensable
| Lungs tarred, I smoke the product like an essential drug
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| I got shelter
| I got shelter
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| And I got freedom
| And I got freedom
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| But there’s gotta be more to this than
| But there's gotta be more to this than
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| Putting bread on the table
| Putting bread on the table
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| I got shelter
| I got shelter
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| I got my freedom
| I got my freedom
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| But I gotta make more of this now…
| But I gotta make more of this now…
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| Surely I’m able…
| Surely I’m able…
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| Et yo on ne voit rien de bien, résultat on traîne
| And yo we don't see nothing good, result we drag
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| Cousin, on tue le temps à moins que ce ne soit le contraire
| Cousin, we're killing time unless it's the opposite
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| Et on en voit de toutes les couleurs #vision arc en ciel
| And we see all the colors #vision rainbow
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| Y a bien un soleil derrière l’orage, donc on attend le terme
| There's a sun behind the storm, so we're waiting for the end
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| Au plus jeune âge tant de frères ont déjà tant de haine
| At a young age so many brothers already have so much hatred
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| J’en ai un qui traîne un cancer, un autre soigne son père
| I got one dragging cancer, another nursing dad
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| En bas de la rue un autre chaque jour pense à cogner le sien
| Down the street another every day thinks of hitting his
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| A oublié le goût du lait de celle qui lui a donné le sein
| Forgot the taste of the milk of the one who gave him the breast
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| Les saisons passent, on voit éclore les bourgeons puis se joncher les feuilles
| The seasons pass, we see the buds hatch and then the leaves are strewn
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| Je taffe pour que le fruit de mes brouillons puisse éponger les pleurs
| I work so that the fruit of my drafts can absorb the tears
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| Le temps abîme, lasse, laisse des cicatrices
| Time damages, wearies, leaves scars
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| Et même la vie d’artiste ne saurait apaiser un cœur
| And even the life of an artist cannot appease a heart
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| And I gotta keep moving on and on and on…
| And I gotta keep moving on and on and on…
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| (Little bit of the sunshine)
| (Little bit of the sunshine)
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| Keep on moving on and on
| Keep on moving on and on
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| (Little bit of the sunshine)
| (Little bit of the sunshine)
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| Gotta keep on-
| Gotta keep on-
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| (Little bit of the sunshine)
| (Little bit of the sunshine)
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| Keep on moving on and on
| Keep on moving on and on
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| (Little bit of the sunshine)
| (Little bit of the sunshine)
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| Gotta keep-
| Gotta keep-
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| (Little bit of the sunshine)
| (Little bit of the sunshine)
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| Gotta keep on moving on and on
| Gotta keep on moving on and on
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| (Little bit of the sunshine)
| (Little bit of the sunshine)
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| Gotta keep on moving-
| Gotta keep on moving-
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| (Little bit of the sunshine)
| (Little bit of the sunshine)
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| Moving on and on…
| Moving on and on…
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| (People gotta keep moving on and on and on) | (People gotta keep moving on and on and on) |