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