J'ai vu la concubine de l'hemoglobine[I've seen the concubine of the hemoglobine]
Balancer (sl.) des rafales de balles normales et faire des victimes[spraying volleys of normal bullets, and claim casualties]
Dans les rangs des descendants d'Adam[in the ranks of Adam's descendants]C'est accablant, troublant, ce ne sont pas des balles a blanc[this is lamentable, disquieting, these are not blank bullets]
On envoie des pigeons (sl.) defendre la colombe[mugs are sent to defend the dove]
Qui avancent comme des pions defendre des bombes[they move along like pawns to defend bombs]
Le dormeur du val ne dort pas (1), et son corps est rigide et froid[the sleeper of the dale does not sleep, and his body is stiff and cold]J'ai vu...
Chez le Viet Min au Viet Nam sous forme de mines et de napalm[by the Viet Min in Viet Nam in the shape of mines and napalm]
Parceque la science nous balance (sl.) sa[because science gives us its]
Science sans conscience (2) egale science de l'inconscience[science without consciousness is science of unconsciousness]
Elle se fout (sl.) du progres mais souhaite la progression[it does not care of progress but wishes the advancement]
De tous les processus qui menent a l'elimination[of all of the processes that lead to elimination]J'ai...Morne comme l'automne un printemps en Chine (3)[dull like autumn a spring in China]Ca s'est assez passe assez gache, casse, la porcelaine de[that occured by mere sleight of hand, the porcelain ]Qu'est lac olombe de paix[that the dove of peace is]L'art de la guerre tue le jeune bambin[the art of warfare kills the young kid]L'oeuvre de King Son Man reste sur sa faim[the work of King Son Man (?)La guerre niqua Guernica, et comme le pique-assiette[the war fucked up Guernica, and like the sponger]
Picasso la repiqua (sl.)[Picasso took it up again]J'ai...En campagne electorale dans les magazines[in electoral campaign in the magazines]
Jovial, mais bancale, le politicien s'installe[jovial, but bandy-legged, the politician settles]
Comme le dit IAM (4) c'est un hold-up mental[as says IAM this is a mental hold-up]
Je les dompte avec le prose combat[
I tame them with the prose combat]
Pause avec le mac, le mac est devenu ma tenue de combat[pause with the mack, the 'mac' is my battledress]J'aime la politique quand elle a assez de vocation[
I like politics when it has enough vocation]
Pour lutter contre les processus qui menent a l'elimination[to struggle against the processes that lead to elimination]J'ai...Dans une lutte economique kalach-
M 16 sixtine[in an economical struggle kalach-
M 16 $$$$]L'opinion s'apercoit vite qu'il y des malheureux[public opinion quickly notices that there are unhappy people]
Quand le sol vire au rouge, viennent les casques bleus[when the ground turns to red, the blue helmets come]
Le Solaarsenal est equipe de balles vocales[the Solaarsenal is equiped with vocal bullets]
Grace au sol-sol so-l-air, Solaar se fait radical[thanks to ground-to-ground, ground-to-air (5) Solaar becomes radical]
Constate le paradoxe du pompier pyromane[finds the paradox of the pyromaniac fireman]C'est comme si la mafia luttait contre la mafia[it's like if the mafia was struggling against the mafia]J'ai...Se faire belle comme les voutes de la chapelle sixtine[make herself up beautiful like the vaults of the sixtine chapel]
Pour l'alphabetisation des neo-fachos[for alphabetisation of the neo-fascists]
A froid ou a chaud avant le bacho (sl.) (6)[when cold or when hot before the 'baccalaureat']Ils souhaitent le cachot, voire revoir Dachau (7)[they wish the cell, nay see Dachau again]
Tel est le B-A ba de l'abc du jeune facho[this is the child's play of the a b c of the young fascist]C'est la horde aux ordres d'un nouvel ordre[this is the horde under the orders of a new order]
Un peu partout dans les villes du club (8)[almost overall in the cities of the club]
Les cretins tissent leur corde[the cretins weave their rope]J'ai...Elle aime la prolactine et les black smokings[she likes prolactine and the 'black' tuxedos]
Voici un extrait de ma pensee profonde:[here's an excerpt of my deep thoughts:]
Ma guerre des nerfs, parceque l'ignorance est nerf de la guerre[my war of nerves, because ignorance is the sinews of war]
On nous dit nous sommes tous freres, Dieu est lumiere[we are told that we are all brothers, God is light]
Mais on constate que la lumiere est etteinte[but you notice that the light is turned off]
Je souhaite que nous fassions plus les memes erreurs[
I wish we didn't make the same mistakes any more]C'est dur a dire, mais, j'ai peur.[it's hard to say, but, I'm scared.]
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