Je suis [English translation]

[Bigflo]

I am

Enclosed, cramped in my cell

Everyday the same coffee but it's the time which is soluble

Those good deeds which we regrets

Those mistakes which we do again

In the visiting room i talk to my son as much as at my reflection

[Oli]

I am

Freezing, i keep drinking and pass winters

For reassurance all passerby must think that we hibernate

Rocked by the sounds of the steps and the noise of coins in the pockets

Between this guy and my dog, i'm wondering with which one i am closest

[Bigflo]

I am

Rich, they want me to believe that it's a shame

As ifI was responsible for all the poverty of the world

Me I owe nothing to anybody, even if the money is running out

They want all to taste the fruit of the tree which I planted

[Oli]

I am

Sick, but I rather say "future cursed"

My pupils fix the hand on the watch which shines on my wrist

Cramped in my body, i look at the world in the keyhole

People will say that I was only enlarging that of the social security

[Bigflo]

I am

Religious, I am often criticized for being it

I am often criticized for my beard but i got the same one as Jean Jaurès

They compare me to barbarians which I have never believed

Mosques are too small, so sometimes I pray in the street

[Oli]

I am

A little lost, my small lungs fill up with air

Newcomer on Earth

My first tears prompt those of my father

I'm lucky, with my family I feel comfortable

But i don't forget that I could have been able te be born in the room on the opposite side

[Bigflo]

I am

Alone, at the end of a corridor, no one ask for my opinion

I got older so, voilà I have much more wrinkles than friends

I would like to share my mistakes, to announce you my doubts

Sometimes i talk to myself to be sure that somebody listens to me

[Oli]

I am

Exhausted, but i'm sure not for long

The bells of telephones, the pressure widened my wounds

I don't remember the date of my last laughing fit

I am a man soon I shall be a memory

[Bigflo]

I am

Finally here, this earth is not anymore a mirage

I, arrived by boat but especially by miracle

A new life waits for me here, more quiet and more stable

This morning I wrote "everything's fine" on the back of the postcard

[Oli]

I am

Proud, but how to describe you all that I feel

When i walk in town, fewer and fewer people look like me

In the elevator, I'm not even talking the language of my neighbor

Due to trees being planted, there will be no more place for our roots

[Bigflo]

I am

Tired, back pain and kidney pain

Wrinkles on my face remind me of the mountains from there where I come

I've been lied to, and I only understood it too late

They say that this country is not mine, even though I built it

[Oli]

I am

Sitting, and the fate made it so that I shall never get up

In this ocean I have the impression to have always rowed

A real challenge to get on the bus

Go to work, cross their doors

Frequently people look at me and answer me that it's not their fault

[Bigflo]

I am

Happy, young graduate

Concreted spirit, I surprised them

Those who dreamed to see me giving up

My family is far from here, I hope that over there they are proud

I've just won the fight which my mother had begun

[Oli]

I am

Confident, I look at my slightly too full class for me

And I would hold them the hand until the success opens them arms

I understood that sometimes, the adults are lost

Because the biggest lessons it's them who gave them to me

[Bigflo]

I am

Angry, in my district we're bored far from the city

We write, we ask, we shout and I have friends who sold drugs

My older brother is unemployed, my buddy makes 5000 a month

At my middle school it's a mess, soon I shall have to make a choice

[Oli]

I am

Far, what it takes place with me doesn't interest many people

We live a dream for others but however usually we're walking in circles

Everything is expensive, with the continent there's a kind of latency

The beach, the palm trees, but I am not on holiday

[Bigflo]

I am

Discreet, my father told me to not make a fuss

My religion, a lighthouse guiding my steps since I cleared off

Its funny that he's whatches me but that hedoes everything to

Give me a lesson by preventing me from going to class

[Oli]

I am

Worried, to my faith many haughty looks

I receive lessons by types who make nothing for their next one

The humanity doesn't have heart anymore, I see the world turning and changing

And i'm sad to see that there is fewer and fewer people on sundays

[Bigflo]

I am

In love, and i don't see who that concerns

Except for me and the one with whom I share my bed in the evening

I love him, we slalom between the insults and the jokes

To say that not long ago I didn't have the right to offer him a ring

[Oli]

I am

Forgotten, my month purposes are made on the thread

It became rare to go to the restaurant or to go to see a movie

I'm just a number, a vote, a statistics, a point furthermore in the crowd

I was just bor there and I have the impression that nobody cares

[Bigflo & Oli]

I am

A date, a coincidence, a soccer game, a wedding

A demo, a birthday, a hug, a brawl

A crime scene, a judgment, a kid laughing, a mistake

A snowy mountain, I am the tip of the feather of an author

I am the tears of a departure, i am the heat of bars

I am a flavor five stars either the fat of a kebab

The lazy, the night-owls, the early risers

The grouches, the looks in the subway

A racist uncle, an empty concert, the crisis, the depression which serves again the vice

I am the excellence, the elegance or the hope of a birth

These campaigns in the silence, these immense and dense big cities

I am, a little of me and many of the others when I think of it

I am, France

• Artist:Bigflo et Oli
• Album:La cour des grands