Ils sont arrivs un matin par dizaines par centaines
Sur des monstres de bois aux entrailles de chanes.
Sans bonjours ni questions, pas mme de prsentations
Ils se sont installs et sont devenus les patrons,
Puis se sont transforms en vritables sauvages
Jusqu' les humilier au plus profond de leur me.
Enfants battus, vieillards tus, mutils
Femmes salies, insultes et dshonores.
Impuissants, les hommes enchans subissaient
Les douloureuses lamentations de leur peuple opprim
Mais chacun d'entre eux en lui-mme se doutait
Qu'il partait pour un voyage don't il ne rentrerait jamais,
Qu'il finirait dans un port pour y tre vendu.
Il pleurait dj son pays perdu.
Trait en infrieur cause d'une diffrence de couleur,
Chaque jour nouveau tait annonciateur de malheur.
Au fond des cales o on les entassait,
Dans leurs esprits les images dfilaient.
Larmes au got sal, larmes ensanglantes,
Dans leurs esprits, longtemps retentissaient
Les champs de la partie de leur tre qu'on leur a arrache
Mais sans jamais tuer l'espoir qui les nourrissait
Qu'un jour, il retrouveraient ces rivages feriques
D'o s'lvent jamais les tam tam de l'Afrique
Les tam tam de l'Afrique {2x}
Perchs sur une estrade, groups comme du btail,
Jets de droite gauche tels des ftus de paille,
Ils leur ont inculqu que leur couleur tait un crime.
Ils leur ont tout vol, jusqu' leurs secrets les plus intimes,
Pill leur culture, brl leurs racines,
De l'Afrique du Sud, jusqu'aux rives du Nil
Et prsent pavoisent les usurpateurs
Ceux qui ont un bloc de granite la place du cur.
Ils se moquaient des pleurs et semaient la terreur
Au sein d'un monde qui avait faim, froid et peur
Et qui rvait de courir dans les plaines paisib
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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