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M.A.R.S.E.I.L.L.E is making the headlines
I can't recognize my city any more
I can't recognize my streets
where is my old downtown
the one I used to know now seems to be gone
North Side, South Side, Downtown
to all the children of the Moon,
to our untamed streets
to my messy generation!
My entire city is now subdued, defeated, hombre
To make it a nice French Rivera city
Marseille is now a city-sized construction site
It's the last hammerblow!
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In favor of their standards
Lots of files treated during their receptions
It's ridiculous!!!
Meanwhile my brothers are struggling
While they build their hotels
more beautiful
my city is than it is in your head
Marseille rebuilt against our will
Petty criminals
get long prison sentences
in les Beaumettes or in Luynes (prisons around Marseille)
For not that much
you'll get your ass kicked
What has become la Joliette
after hundreds of expulsions
certainly not what we wanted...
What happened to the bled-like city?
They say this time is now over.
Capitale of the europeean culture??
if this was a joke nobody would believe it
Marseille has been redrawn by Euromed
It came to mess up the whole culture of the city
the gap is growing
just feel
the fracture
is opening
MARSEILLE!
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capital of the rupture
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Too few are opposing
the colonists
of the beatiful
phocean city
All their plan are at the very opposite
of the tradition
of the spirit
of the ancient city
that always gathered different communities
land of refuge
open to the other
rebelious to the kings
land of asylum for the apostles
what do you say? the gateway to the Orient
has been elected capital of european culture?!
MARSEILLE is making the headlines
I don't recognize my city
I've heard it had become pretty swanky.
It's the civilization shock
2013
it all went so fast
cops and video camera around every corner
expelled because of their business
count those who remain
minds are demolished
like the walls on which we used to lean
so this one is for the pissed off brothers
antisystem
that they wish to put in jail or worse
what will my people become for real?
sorrow is now growing in our streets
a kind of apartheid is now forming
ours blocks were not just about drunkness
real camaraderie, i mean the real, the joy
the was no riffle
nor Kalash[nikovs] nor [M-]16
here youth is clearly in danger
they do nothing for it
it's been true for fucking ages
living on top of each other
the only way to earn a living is dealing weed
no more room in the circuit
so some take arms and shoot straight in the bull's eye
They rebuild our blocks
and kick us out
meanwhile poverty grows and grows
taking it easy tourists parade
and my brothers are sent to jail
all of it under the eyes of cameras
in order to sanitize each square and park
and the very own city's IDENTITY!
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capital of the rupture..