Deuxième génération [English translation]

My name is Slimane , and I'm fifteen

Living with my parents at the Courneuve

Got my diploma in delinquency

I am not a zero, I proved my value

I'm the oldest one of the team

Got a snake tattooed on my arm

I have never been in jail

They say it's because of my age

I've heard it's not a safe haven

That you're somehow like in a cage

You think living here is funny ?

You think delinquency is vacancies ?

I got nothing to gain nor to lose

Not even a life

My only interest in this shitty life is death

I love what's broken

I love what's ruined

I especially enjoy your deepest fears :

Pain and night

I'd published an ad in the Libération newspaper

To find a sweet gentle pussy

Who would work to pay for my food

Seeing that to put myself to work

I would need twice more fingers

So you see that it is not so easy.

My dream would be to be unemployed

Getting paid in cash without having to work

So that I could register to the Social Security

It would pay for a trip to the dentist

To change all the teeth I lost

In brawls which badly ended .

I got nothing to gain nor to lose

Not even a life

My only interest in this shitty life is death

I love what's broken

I love what's ruined

I especially enjoy your deepest fears :

Pain and night

I am not even rich enough to buy me dagga

So I am getting stoned with what I can find

Trichlorethylene or liquid glue for bike repairs

It's true that sometimes it makes you puke

But it's the best I can find with the money I have

And it cleans your nostrils

In the evening , we are prowling on parking lots

Looking for a sufficiently clean BMW

To borrow it for an hour or two

We then leave it at the Gate Dauphine

We are going to see the hookers just to stare at them

To remember it in our beds during the night

I got nothing to gain nor to lose

Not even a life

My only interest in this shitty life is death

I love what's broken

I love what's ruined

I especially enjoy your deepest fears :

Pain and night

The other thing I like alot

Is to play music with my friends

We've constituted a hard-rock band

We are doing our rehearsals in a cellar, by night

With low-quality amplifiers

With instruments we might have stolen a little bit

We even found an old moron

Who wanted to get us recording an EP

It failed because this asshole

Refused to let us sing in Kabyle

We crushed his head against a brick

So hard even the brick felt the pain

I got nothing to gain nor to lose

Not even a life

My only interest in this shitty life is death

I love what's broken

I love what's ruined

I especially enjoy your deepest fears :

Pain and night

Sometimes I'm thinking that 3000 miles away

From my city, there is a country

That I will probably never see

Maybe it's better like this and maybe not

Maybe down there too, I'd be a foreigner

Perhaps down there too, I won't be anyone

So to feel me belonging

To a people , to a nation

I am wearing around my neck, on my leather jacket

The black and white keffiyeh

I had invented myself invisible brothers

Friends who are dying too

I got nothing to gain nor to lose

Not even a life

My only interest in this shitty life is death

I love what's broken

I love what's ruined

I especially enjoy your deepest fears

Pain and night

• Artist:Renaud
• Album:Morgane de toi