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