Iam

Lyrics Red, black and green Iam

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Red, black and green


Pourquoi tant de haine, c'est vraiment pas la peine

Shurik'n te le dira, les hommes sont les mêmes

Malgré les pressions et l'argumentation

Visant à la destruction de ma nation

Même si j'ai grandi au milieu des rues

Ayant derrière moi des tas de flics au cul

Je me suis vu et j'ai su m'engager sur une piste

Les cités de Marseille semblent bien tristes

L'enfance est passée

Depuis, combien d'amis sont tombés, ne se sont pas relevés

Combien de mères j'ai vu pleurer

Sur les corps de leur fils par la mort fauchés

Pendant 7 jours sur le béton des tours

Les larmes de Dieu qui tombaient du ciel

Pour ce monde fou, de Satan la cour

Je regardais les violences de mes yeux de miel

J'ai vu les feuilles mortes des arbres en automne

Tourner à la couleur rouge vif comme

Le fleuve de sang qui encore se répand

Prend sa source en Afrique et s'étend aux quatre vents

La note est bien lourde

Tu ne vois pas ce sang? T'as la mémoire courte

Ou tu fies tes souvenirs à une idéologie

Et volontairement tu te la raccourcis

Alors, dans ce cas, tu es mon ennemi

Viens ici

Si ma religion m'enseigne un voeu de paix

La paix ne compte plus si je me sens blessé

Tu te souviendra de la couleur du sombre rouge

Tu te soumettras, pas d'accord? bouge

Toi le frère noir aveugle et sans attention

Rouge est la couleur de la révolution

La rue, combien d'enfants a-t-elle emporté, en a-t-elle eu

Et abattu, je ne sais plus

Le trottoir, le trottoir, si sombre quand vient le soir

Ou la mémoire n'a plus d'espoir, semble trop noir

Comme la couleur de la peau de mon peuple enchaîné par

L'esclavage mental, car

L'ignorance est telle que le malin l'emporte

Pour un démon qui se voit fort et frappe à nos portes

Allah-u-Akbar, protège nous des ténèbres absolues

Toi qui peut voir, toi qui est bon, c'est pas trop tard

N'étant pas parfait j'essaie de faire de même

Je tenterais d'être juste et ça c'est mon problème

Dominer ma rage, être équitable et sage

Tourner la page sur ceux qui se plaisent aux bavardages

Plus de Xénophobie, ni de politique

Rien que l'alliance des poètes afro-asiatiques

Vois-tu ce noir, au fond de mes yeux

40 frères à mes côtés, et il parle pour eux

Notre pouvoir est tel qu'il scie les barreaux de toute prison

Noir est la couleur de l'unification

Blesse, et le stress progresse, sans cesse, oppressent

Et pressent et laissent l'esprit aux promesses

Pourquoi devrais-je avoir confiance aux croulants

Déclarant des conneries au nom du Président

C'est pareil, mon frère, pourquoi devrais-je avoir un visa?

La Terre crée par Dieu n'appartient pas

Elle est à toi et à moi ou quiconque s'en voit le droit

L'argent est roi, passe avant tout encore une fois

C'est une honte de voir les dirigeants

A l'assemblée, crier, pleurer comme des enfants

Tout est faux, tout pour le do ($)

Et j'ose le clamer du haut de mon micro

As-tu le vert, non pas le pervers

Des plaines souriantes de la terre mère

Enfants déracinés, on a participé

A construire le grand pays de la liberté

Les récompenses ont été pour les fils de Sham

Le Ku-Klux-Klan et la guerre du Vietnam

Plus de mensonges à l'avenir, faites attention

Car vert la couleur de la libération

Red Black Green, my brothers

Red Black Green, my sisters

Red Black Green, mes frères

Red Black Green, mes soeurs

Et telle est la couleur, rouge pour les pleurs

Noir pour la douleur, vert pour la sueur

Que quelqu'un se rappelle que l'acier des chaînes

N'a jamais quitté les mains et l'esprit de mon peuple que j'aime

Quand on enseigne à vénérer l'armée et

Apprendre à tuer, pêle-mêle à tirer

Pour la compétition, la domination

Premier de tous les pas vers la colonisation

P.A.I.X. fixe le but de nos mixes

Disque A.T.O.N. évite l'avènement des rixes

Poète terroriste, quelque fois sonoïste

Etudie les causes à effets tel un économiste

Beaucoup de gens idiots comme la plupart des faux MC's

Sont harassants lorsqu'ils viennent de toutes parts non avertis

En demandant si IAM a une devise

Xénophobe et racistes iront rejoindre Elvis

Enfin, la punition, qu'on crie à l'unisson

Doit arriver comme le calme de plat de nos visions

Systématiquement, impérialement, automatic

IAM souverain autonome asiatic

Comme à dit King Raz à qui je dis Salam

Ulemas nous sommes, âmes de l'islam

Et venons en paix avec trois couleurs d'émancipation

Rouge, Noir, Vert, la seule solution

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Biografia

IAM is a French hip hop band from Marseille, created in 1989, and composed of Akhenaton (Philippe Fragione) Shurik'n (Geoffroy Mussard) Freeman (Malek Brahimi) Kheops (Eric Mazel) Imhotep (Pascal Perez) and Kephren (Francois Mendy). 'IAM' has several meanings, including 'Invasion Arrivee de Mars' ('Invasion from Mars'). 'Mars' is frequently used as a metaphor for Marseille in IAM's songs.

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