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SONG MEANING

“À Tout Moment La Rue” is Eiffel’s fiery love letter to people power. Over tense guitars and rally-like repetition, the French rockers picture the street as a living, breathing force that can suddenly rise up and shout non! to greed, fear and the “300 families” perched in their ivory towers. Each verse contrasts the suffocating noise of money with flashes of raw humanity – chapped lips, sweaty brows, ragged clothes, yet also leafy trees, stars and goddesses that fill our dreams. The message is simple: the crowd is vast, the elite is tiny, and at any second the balance can flip.

Listening feels like standing in the middle of a demonstration just before it erupts. The repeated chant “À tout moment la rue peut aussi dire non” becomes a drumbeat of hope, turning refusal into affirmation: saying no to oppression equals saying yes to everything that connects us. Eiffel remind us that when ordinary people reclaim their voices, they not only protest, they imagine – and even love – a world where they are free to “dispose of themselves.”

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