Alterlude: Le changement viendra d'en bas [English translation]

(Voice)

It is up to us today to know how to occupy public space

The street is ours!

The government, them, the official parties, from extreme left to the extreme right will not give us this and make our voice heard!

We must not fight them with their tools, because it is they who have invented them, it is their rules of the game, they are the ones who master them and if you want to be sure to lose a game, play with the one who invented the rule!

KENY ARKANA:

Each to his class and one forgets the human struggle!

Colonization too subtle!

if I'm against the machine why will I use these rules?

Social and cultural apartheid

Change will not come from above, we have understood that!

The war on the poor is declared!

The institutions are only at the service of the enemy

Let’s stop cooperating

(Voice)

We have against us people who do not want to arrange things the way we do

Let us be aware of our ability to create new things

The lives of those I love are in danger, you saw, because when the police are supposed to protect us, who protects us from them? Nobody!

The hunting of foreigners wanted by Nicolas Sarkozy and his government is accelerating.

This politics is only a copy and paste of one of the extreme right.

KENY ARKANA:

It expels families

More and more repression

Pens get tighter

More and more repression

Surveillance camera

More and more repression

Let’s reclaim us our lives,

We need to create new things

The militants have found their opium

(Voice)

We need to have an overhaul to horizontal power where everyone

would have power over their life

We need to reclaim politics, to reclaim the word,

to reclaim the street, to reclaim the houses,

to reclaim everything!

KENY ARKANA:

Disobedience!

Constitutional fascist!

Disobedience!

Stop cooperating!

Disobedience!

That’s the strength of their machine!

Disobedience!

Change will come from below!

Different things and a different world!

They have the figures, we have the number of Babylon!

(Voice)

We need to reinvent our tools

To do something else

We should understand that to defend ourselves, we must gather

But to gather, you must have confidence in yourself, you must believe in yourself!

Above all, never think that you are isolated because we are connected, in millions!

Build something from the bottom!

It is not just in France, you see, it is the same everywhere in the world, because everywhere in the world there is the same system of shit!

There will not be change if the shape does not come from the background

If our organizational methods remain the same, we will reproduce the same mistakes

If you want to change things, it really has to come from you, you must ask the right questions of yourself!

• Artist:Keny Arkana
• Album:Désobéissance (2008)