We storm out, en masse
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By hundreds, by millions
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By billions or thousandths
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From a few simple drops
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Dawns erupting
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To light up emblems
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Lanterns in our heads
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If we dive into darkness
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Ragheads or n*ggers
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We live on backlash
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So we come through your sewers
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We are cargoes
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Of veiled women, shrill ululations
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Rastas, backwards caps
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Birthing scorned kids
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Noisy brats
Little snot-nosed curlies
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That give excuses to vote
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Find scapegoats
Slit their throats for Eid
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With no fatigues for this country
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The poster’s blood-red
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And Manouchian ain't from Auvergne
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The rifleman says f*ck you
He knocked up your grandma
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We take over Brongniart
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Back to the wall like Jean-Pierre Thorn
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We don't give a sh*t about the great night
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'Cause night is way too dull
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We don't even want sun
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Just eclipses to make love
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So the moment's brief
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Intense like a fruit you savor
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We've read Césaire and Prévert
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We'll come wage war on you
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We don't point out the enemy anymore
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'Cause he's everywhere, even in us
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'Cause we lived on our knees
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We're deaf to slogans
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Worn out by too many marches
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We wanna rhyme like switchblades
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But we'll never be 60
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'Cause we eat bisphenol
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While the planet's suffocating
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To bar us from struggle
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We're gonna be adults again
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Between merit and heritage
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And the powerful seize
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What the poor share
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At their musical chairs
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Nobody plays, nobody sits
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Being outraged's a given
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While your dad's not here
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I spat out the plate
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Mounted the horse and galloped
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Hijacked an RER-stagecoach
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The Belleville Apache
Will come shouting revenge
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Like Balavoine hits the town
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Seats and make us bleed
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Lovers on public benches
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Will never stop loving
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Since our daps look
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Like Montoire handshakes
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Speak for our hopes
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Even less condemned
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In sudden eruption