Singer: Kery James
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Song: Amal
Kery James - Amal Lyrics (LRC) (07:22-442-0-en) (PARTIAL PREVIEW)
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[00:26.44]Amal grew up in poverty At two years old, she immigrated from Morocco to the housing project
[00:32.30]Landed in the Paris suburbs, Pierre- Collinet housing project, the French ghetto it's not the jet set
[00:38.74]Dad's a cleaner, mom, a maid
[00:43.42]Amal becomes an adult before her time
[00:46.82]She's a woman in a child's body When you're poor, you don't stay naive long
[00:53.24]Alone, surrounded by four brothers
[00:55.90]In the misery, that forms character It's the ‘80s, the era's convulsive
[01:03.30]One of her older brothers gets hooked on heroin
[01:07.28]I'm tellin' you about a real girl of the housing project Who's lived more than rappers who invent their life stories
[01:13.30]She'll never be the kind to let herself get walked over
[01:16.62]Amal has taken so many blows, she doesn't feel them anymore
[01:22.94]Amal has taken so many blows, she doesn't feel them anymore
[01:33.44]Amal has a little brother called Amine
[01:37.36]We never escape what God's destined for us
[01:40.28]Amine is fiery, Amine's not afraid of anything
[01:42.96]A pure product of the ghetto, Amine plays with fire
[01:46.80]Sentenced to thirteen years, the judge is killing him The youngest prisoner in France, his future is locked in
[01:53.56]Even if Amal is writing to the court, nothing will do
[01:56.84]We can't all run between the raindrops like Alexandre Benalla
[02:00.44]His incarceration will be his destruction
[02:03.58]Amine lives this imprisonment as an injustice
[02:07.12]Amine spits up the system, Amine is enraged
[02:11.74]Amine ends up doing heists In total, seventeen years in lockup
[02:17.22]Amal keeps up with letters and visiting rooms People forget you when you're inside
[02:24.80]Amal will never let go of her little brother
[02:28.12]At twenty-nine Amine is on the run
[02:30.96]He tries to escape from a routine check He runs away but the cop won't do him the favor
[02:38.56]Without a warning, a bullet in the back!
[02:55.28]Because they shot her little brother Amal declares war on the system
[03:01.88]The cop fakes self-defense Expresses no regret, even shows arrogance
[03:08.38]The media prints the police's version
[03:11.48]In France nobody cries over the death of a gangster
[03:14.68]Her parents live in fear but Amal doesn't give up,
[03:18.82]And she ends up finding witnesses
[03:22.16]Despite the facts and the evidence amassed
[03:25.26]The cop is acquitted in the first trial Shocking, even the prosecutor files an appeal
[03:31.26]A bullet in the back, that can't be an accident!
[03:36.22]Amal continues the fight
[03:38.14]She gathers her courage deepest inside her
[03:41.56]She forgets herself, puts her own life aside
[03:45.00]She has a husband who loves her, supports her through adversity
[03:49.32]Often Amal has dark thoughts A desire for vengeance floods her despair
[03:55.40]Facing incomprehension, sometimes she thinks the worst
[03:58.56]Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, you see what I mean?
[04:02.56]As she's close to taking a bad turn
[04:06.40]God gives her a third child
[04:09.42]A beautiful little boy, Hanine
[04:12.38]He looks so much like him, she calls him Amine
[04:16.10]In place of hate, love takes over With her resistance she finally finds a way
[04:22.98]After five years of fierce fighting
[04:26.62]The cop is finally convicted
[04:30.90]Amal breathes, Amal rediscovers the taste for life, Amal finds desire
[04:36.36]Amal has projects, Amal smiles
[04:39.34]Amal has a heart that beats, Amal flowers
[04:43.52]No place for uncertainties
[04:46.98]Amal resumes her studies
[04:50.20]Age forty in a university classroom
[04:53.84]Amal wants to be...........
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