Below is the lyrics of the song Le Couteau Entre Les Dents (Featuring Faf Larage) , artist - IAM, FAF LARAGE, Bruno Coulais with translation
Original text with translation
IAM, FAF LARAGE, Bruno Coulais
Ils croient qu’on est qu’des rude boys, n?
s pour livrer bataille
Frappant les tam-tams quand?
a poigne, quand j’entre entre la racaille
Leur connerie est de taille?
masquer l’ignorance
Et si par miracle un doute les assaille, se tiennent les relances
Les masques, les gardes et l’oeil sur leur bectance, la main sur la panse
Faut qu’ils sachent que les n?
tres servent?
autre chose que vol et maintenance
Jusque dans ces bleds pomm?
s de France o?
la peur va croissante
Haine du croissant naissance
Pendant que seul le dico parle de violence
Versant dans l’ind?cence des id?
es germent, issues de sales semences
Toujours les m?
mes s?
quences
Un idiot creuse un trou, y’en a 100 qui s’y lancent
Dame complaisance fait son entr?
e omnipotente
Et eux la regardent passer tant que?
a danse le dimanche
Et pensent garder leur chance
Et v’l?
ma jeunesse, la foule
Ceux pour qui le monde s’ouvre
Chouf, v’l?
la sale bouffe
Celle qu’tes cauchemars couvrent (couvrent !)
Grince les dents, c’est le r?
veil ?vident
Nos vies s’vidant
Du bon sens on t’met du consistant
Ecris le avant de choper ta syncope, h?
l’propre !
C’est le sale qui te branche, note
A travers notre faute !
Ca doit venir de ces colonies o?
la chaleur m?
ne Mais pas ta flamme du mal qui dirige vos haines
Et prends-toi ?a !
Et appelle si t’as besoin de sous-titres
Sur mon pupitre y’a pas de place pour les sous-pitres
La v?
rit?
c’est que vous craignez vos faiblesses tous autant que vous?
tes
Nous on combat?
a avec un art qui se dresse et vexe !
Et voil?, on y est maintenant, et tu sais de quoi?
a parle !
Y’a pas que les nuits qui sont noires, y’a les?
mes si nos beats crament
Les d?
mons les arment, souill?
s par le charme
Y’a pas que les mots qui font mal, y’a les actes
Pens?
e animale, suit la cons?
quence, raison minimale
Ils sont l?, le couteau entre les dents
T’as la frousse pour ton Citro?
n C3 qu’une horde d?
barque
Avec une tire braqu?
e dans ton chemin de pointes et droits
Amalgame et effroi en fond de l’exil amenant ic?
ne et croix
Souvenir d’un bled cram?
qu’la faim nettoie
Propagande sous les toits, guerre?
nos portes, chez le Gotha c’est l’extase
Import, export, transport
Ils guettent les chiffres comme?
la bourse de Francfort
Ils collent?
nos basques un d?
nomm?
Oussama comme?
tant notre meilleur mentor
Des Viet-Cong on a gard?
que le mental, ce qui a fait de nous des warriors
A la carri?
re bien peu instrumentale, loin du standard stupide de l’inclus
vendable
Loin des buffets o?
ces hy?
nes bandables s’nourrissent des fruits du scandale
Ils voudraient tous nous voir?
l’agonie, au bord de l’asphyxie
La peur au ventre qu’on les envahisse d’Afrique jusqu’en Laponie
Ils parlent de d?
mocratie, flippent sur la d?
mographie
Des mots nous qualifient de d?
mons, sur les monts
On y vit pas on est l?, stagne en bas de chez toi
De chez eux dans les rues, les blocs, ils nous damnent mais on les voit pas
Et on va pas refaire l’histoire du monde
Si c’est un miroir qui nous g?
ne alors fuck je repr?
sente les monstres
La chasse est ouverte et les uniformes grondent
Mais ailleurs dans le monde?
a les g?
nent pas qu’on creuse des tombes
Et qui sait ce qu’ils nous r?
servent
Quand ils nous guettent t’inqui?te, on sait ce qu’ils ont dans la t?
te mec
Ouais, et?
a fait peur, mais on se bat, et l’Histoire jugera
They think we're just rude boys, right?
s to do battle
Hitting the tom-toms when?
a fist, when I enter between the scum
How big is their bullshit?
hide ignorance
And if by some miracle a doubt assails them, the raises stand
The masks, the guards and the eye on their bectance, the hand on the belly
Should they know that the n?
very useful?
anything other than flight and maintenance
Even in these apple bleds?
s from France o?
the fear is growing
Birth Crescent Hatred
While only the dictionary speaks of violence
Pouring into the indecency of id?
sprout, from dirty seeds
Always the m?
my s?
sequences
A fool digs a hole, 100 go for it
Lady convenience makes her entrance?
e omnipotent
And they watch it pass as long as?
danced on sunday
And think they'll keep their luck
And here?
my youth, the crowd
Those for whom the world opens
Chouf, ya?
dirty food
The one your nightmares cover (cover!)
Grind your teeth, that's the r?
obvious eye
Our lives are emptying
Common sense we give you consistency
Write it down before you get your faint, h?
the clean!
It's the dirty that turns you on, note
Through our fault!
It must come from those colonies where?
the heat m?
But not your flame of evil that directs your hatreds
And take it!
And call if you need captions
On my desk there is no place for subtitles
The v?
laugh?
Is it that you fear your weaknesses all as much as you do?
your
We fight?
a with an art that stands up and vexes!
Here we are now, and you know what?
talked !
It's not just the nights that are dark, are there?
my if our beats burn
The D?
mon arm them, defiled?
s by charm
It's not just words that hurt, there are actions
Think?
e animal, follow the idiot?
quence, minimal reason
They are there, the knife between the teeth
Scared for your Citro?
n C3 a horde of?
small boat
With a pointed pull?
e in your way of spikes and straights
Amalgamation and dread in the background of exile leading here?
do and cross
Remembering a bled cram?
that hunger cleans
Propaganda under the roof, war?
our doors, at the Gotha it's ecstasy
Import, export, transportation
They watch the numbers like?
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
They stick?
our coattails one of
named?
Osama like?
so much our best mentor
Any Viet Cong?
than the mind, which made us warriors
At the carri?
re very little instrumental, far from the stupid standard of the included
salable
Far from the buffets where?
these hy?
do bandables feed on the fruits of the scandal
They would all like to see us?
agony, on the brink of asphyxiation
The fear in the belly that we invade them from Africa to Lapland
They talk about d
mocracy, freak out about the d?
mography
Words qualify us as d?
mons, on the mountains
We don't live there, we're here, stagnant below your house
From home in the streets, the blocks, they damn us but we don't see them
And we're not going to rewrite the history of the world
If it's a mirror that g?
so fuck i repr?
feel the monsters
The hunt is on and the uniforms are rumbling
But elsewhere in the world?
has the g?
do not let us dig graves
And who knows what they tell us?
serve
When they're stalking us, don't worry, we know what's on their minds?
you man
Yeah, and?
was scary, but we fight, and history will judge
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