Kery James La Parole Lyrics English Translation
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Letter to the Republic
To all these racists with hypocritical tolerance
Who built their nation on blood
Now they set themselves up as lesson givers
Plunderers of wealth, killers of Africans
Colonizers, torturers of Algerians
This colonial past is yours
You are the one who chose to link your story to ours
Now you have to assume
The smell of blood follows you even if you wear perfume
We Arabs and Blacks
We are not here by chance
Every arrival has its departure!
You wanted immigration
Thanks to her you gorged yourself to the point of indigestion
I believe that France has never given charity
Immigrants are just cheap labor
Keep your republican illusion to yourself
Sweet France flouted by African immigration
Ask the Senegalese riflemen and harkis
Who took advantage of who?
The Republic is only innocent in your dreams
And you only have white hands from your lies
We Arabs and Blacks
We are not here by chance
Every arrival has its departure!
But do you think that over time
Would Negroes mutate, end up becoming White?
But human nature has swept away your plans
We don't fit into rejection
We do not integrate into the French ghettos, parked
Between immigrants, we must be sensible
How to point out community withdrawal
That you initiated from the slums of Nanterre
Pyromaniac and firefighter, your memory is selective
We did not come in peace, your story is aggressive
Here, we are better than there, we know it
Because for you to decolonize is to destabilize
And the more I observe history, the less I feel indebted
I know what it's like to be black since the schoolbag days
Although I'm not ungrateful, I don't want to say thank you
Because deep down what I have here, I conquered it
I grew up in Orly in the favelas of France
I flourished in the maquis, I have been at war since my childhood
Drug trafficking, robbery, violence, crimes!
What are my brothers doing if not making money like in Clearstream?
Who can teach them a lesson? YOU?
Abusers of social assets, embezzlers
Real thugs in suits, you hypocrites!
Do the French have the leaders they deserve?
At the heart of debates, heartless debates
Always the same ones that we point the finger at in your France of resentments
In the midst of an economic crisis, someone must be guilty
And it is towards the Muslims that all your shots are aimed
I'm not afraid to write it, France is Islamophobic
Besides, no one hides it anymore in France from xenophobes
You treat us like nothing on your public channels
And you expect us to cry 'long live the Republic!'
My respect is being violated in the so-called country of Human Rights
Difficult to feel French without Stockholm syndrome
Because I am Black, Muslim, suburban and proud of it
When you see me you put a face to what the other France hates
These are the same hypocrites who talk to us about diversity
Who express racism under the guise of secularism
Dream of a unique French person, with a single identity
The same minorities persist in discriminating
Faced with the same voters, the same fears are agitated
We oppose communities, to hide precariousness
Let no one be surprised if tomorrow it ends up blowing
How to love a country that refuses to respect us
Far from transparent artists, I write this text like a mirror
Let France look at itself if it wants to see itself there
She will see the illusion she has of herself disappear
I'm not lacking affection
Understand that I no longer wait for her to love me!
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