Car tu portes mon nom [English translation]

How to tell you what I have in my heart

At this time, I'm only a little sister

Who does'nt want to be a babysitter, no

I was violent before, I had in my belly

Rancor to spare

I never was in ranks

I was felin and solitary in secret

Strong and male from the head to the shoes

Since the family was just a phone call away

I understood, I did not say everything

But I resumed my routine, yeah

I wondered what was the point of living

What the point of staying ?

I searched in books some peace

Some respect

I waited hours near the phone

I thought my father dead

But we saw him on the globe so

Not so easy to be the fruit of a fugitive

Will I eventually run away too

Without giving you birth, no

I swear my child, you'll see the world

And you will be the love because you'll wear my name

Neither the sky nor the stars move me away from you

I will give you a father and a way

I swear, I would be there from cradle to grave

I will be the world because you will wear my name

As a teenager, I did not see myself as a woman

Adults were cowardly to kids of my age

Always looking for the perfect child

Mothers were investigating their kids

While mine was leaving

Too often alone, I ended up understanding

That money was hunger and that her daughter was greedy

So my mother, I loved her secretly

Crippling, I love her excessively, yeah

All the love we've lost

We catch him

But I would never have enough of a life

To honor her, no

If I tell you about my mother

It's that I only have her

Your grandmother is a queen

And her strength, I leave for you

Remember that she is your blood

She is the reason of your guts

That she was great and that we will have to look like her

My child, you will not regret the world

And you will know love because you will wear my name

Neither the sky nor the stars move me away from you

I will give you a father and a way

I swear, I would be there from cradle to grave

I will be the world because you will wear my name

I grew up, I know

I'm not the same anymore, no

My weak heart has found all its bearings

I swear, I'll give you everything I received

But be sure that I will release you from wounds

I swear, I'll release you from the pain, yeah

I would always be your sky in the hopscotch

Sometimes, your dad is waiting for me somewhere

Sometimes I think I see him but he does not look like you, no

I imagine him father, I imagine him husband

I imagine him proud, I imagine him fragile

I visualize us as three in the park

You on the swing then all three in the sand

I imagine myself mother, I imagine myself blessed

I imagine myself proud to have given life

We will be beautiful, believe me

We will be good in this world

Over time, we will be full and you will wear my name

Neither the sky nor the stars move me away from you

I will give you a father and a way

I swear, I would be there from cradle to grave

I will be the world because you will wear my name