Singer: Kery James
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Song: A qui la faute
Kery James - A qui la faute Subtitles (SRT) (06:17-377-0-en) (PARTIAL PREVIEW)
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I wanted to make a film
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I did it, I didn’t wait for Canal
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I didn’t wait for an arts grant
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I was tired of seeing the same people
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Grab our stories
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So I wrote my own screenplay
That depicts our lives
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I don’t want my hands idle
I counted on my talent
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I’m not a “son of…” It’s only my determination
that has long arms
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I had to work twice as hard As those
with half the talent I have
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In France it’s normal for an African
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You ask me whose fault it is?
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As far as I’m concerned I wasn’t born
To build somebody else’s dreams
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I carry my own victories
and my failures
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I’m not a slave
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The French state isn’t my master
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However the French state keeps putting
it to you And you maybe get by
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It’s nothing but the crumbs
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To make you feel that if you failed
that’s because you’re stupid
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Because the stone that the builder refused
Will end up in the window
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One lone film by Kery James Two
hundred by shitty yuppies
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Wow, you did it all alone You see
what I mean by all alone
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Poverty, how many are below that line
Since the state had the good idea
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To get rich off immigrants
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And hand off the neighbourhoods
to them Where the middle
class committed suicide
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But compare those neighbourhoods
To what our parents fled from
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The Bois-l’Abbé projects are luxurious
For somebody fleeing Haiti
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When I see those with more I
remember those with less
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From as far back as I can remember
I never saw my mother complain
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Do you know where we come from?
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Me I did it all alone
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You understand all alone Huh?
Below the poverty line
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The suburbs aren’t alone
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The countryside is abandoned
The misery is rural too
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I know sympathetic whites
For whom life is brutal
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The whites suffer too, thanks
I didn’t see the news
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The slums have worn the yellow
vest for twenty years
Nobody gives a damn
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France is in denial A mix of
ignorance and contempt
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Don’t talk about ethnicities I have uncles
who think Africa‘s a country
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I know the neighbourhoods seen by those
Who would never set foot there
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Who talk about them at every meal Never
dream of going to see the facts
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I was raised like: “Don’t
hang out with those people,
you’ll get mugged”
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Myths and legends on TV Must
integrate without mixing
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Trouble without counter-example The
future will become your present
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No colonies without consequences
Anti-white racism
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So much complacency Believe
me I know that France
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I’m not saying everybody’s bad
I say fears and negligence
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Make for a nasty population
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There’s racism in France, who
are you telling that to?
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I wrote “Letter to the Republic”
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You, where were you?
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We don’t change things By
just stating findings
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Submit or act I’ll tell
you like it is
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Life is a question of choice!
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Neither left nor right
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But if our brothers don’t find work
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What can they do Beyond starting
their own business?
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You see the world cross-
eyed, you’re naïve
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You still believe in SOS
Racisme And protests
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I’m not naïve, I’m betrayed I no longer
believe what I was taught
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Equality, homeland
Oh yeah?
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Are you the one choosing, start
your business Who’s enriched
on your credit?
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Get in the system or perish Lose
your dreams in City Hall
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As long as they talk about
elites They say you can get
by if you deserve it
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But you deserve to get by
It’s just a technique
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The state wants to put you to sleep
And play the slum lords
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The only model of success
Theirs based on dough
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If they help the youth to
become the old like them
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You can hit the jackpot
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You won’t beat the casino
At its own game
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Pyramid scheme the money rises
The shit stays at the bottom
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I’m not saying everybody’s
in on the plot I’m saying
they don’t rock the boat
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