Au clair de ma plume [English translation]

I've known the worst and the best

Joy and anger

I've known the ups and the downs

During my career

I've known the laughing and the weeping

The traitors and the brothers

I saw the Kalash’ and the flowers

Those who live and those who die

They’ve badmouthed me, they’ve sullied

My reputation, I was often blamed

If the Mediterranean Sea is salty

It is my tears that made it bitter

Truth is often hard to tell

Even harder to hush up

If my hand needs to write it out

My heart needs to do it

By the light of my pen1

My lucky star has got lost

By the light of my pen

Tell me who I can lean on

I had to go, yeah

I'm out of time, well yeah

I had to do it, yeah

Now it's over, well yeah

If the starting point is the 13th2

And that everything began with a mere demo

My life is walking on eggshells

When I fall off I get back to my bike

They made me fall like the World Trade

Today I’ve rebuild myself call me Ground Zero

I’m determined, a survivor escaped from the bars

Of Karismatik3, Guantanamo

They tried to destroy me

Thinking I would let them

No, don’t be scared to rebuild from scratch

This track is my foundation stone

Truth is often hard to tell

Even harder to hush up

If my hand needs to write it out

My heart needs to do it

By the light of my pen

My lucky star has got lost

By the light of my pen

Tell me who I can lean on

I had to go, yeah

I'm out of time, well yeah

I had to do it, yeah

Now it's over, well yeah

I had to go, yeah

I'm out of time, well yeah

I had to do it, yeah

Now it's over, well yeah

Well yeah, well yeah

I had to go, yeah

I'm out of time, well yeah

I had to do it, yeah

Now it's over, well yeah

Well yeah, well yeah

By the light of my pen

By the light of my pen

My lucky star has got lost

By the light of my pen

Tell me who I can lean on

I had to go, yeah

I'm out of time, well yeah

I had to do it, yeah

Now it's over, well yeah

By the light of my pen

My lucky star has got lost

By the light of my pen

Tell me who I can lean on

I had to go, yeah

I'm out of time, well yeah

I had to do it, yeah

Now it's over, well yeah

Now it's over, well yeah

1. This is a pun with the famous French nursery rhyme "Au clair de la lune" ("by the light of the moon"). The singer means that writing allows her to be clear with herself and her thoughts.2. referring to the Bouches-du-Rhône. It's the 13th French "département" (administrative division).3. Kenza Farah's former label