Zebda le bruit et l odeur

If I fell to the ground
It's not Voltaire's fault
The nose in the stream
There wasn't Dolto
If there wasn't no more angels
In heaven and on earth
Why do we have to
Die in the ghetto?
Rather than 'being from a people who have suffered too much
I prefer to develop a thesis
Which is not to leave these gentlemen
Who legislates, the care to balance me
Ancestors
We may well have been born
Left bank of the Garonne
Conversing with the accent of cicadas
They are not kilos in the Gascon city
To ensure that it is not just a stopover
We can to die at the front
And fight all the wars
And beautiful to defend such a pretty flag
There is always more needed
Yet there is a tribute to be paid
br/>To those who fell at Montécassino
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The sound of the jackhammer
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The noise of the jackhammer
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The noise of the jackhammer
br/>The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The sound of the jackhammer
The fear is murderous
So it's true I'm penalized
br/>Those who shoot the same ones
What don't have the lawn down below
I am a dreamer
And yet friend I analyze
I am a scholar and I tell you
I am Serbo-Croat and Muslim
Here's the rub
A Polish republican priest
And there ¯that
And if some people regret
Not being dark skinned
I only have one answer guys
You're in luck
Equality my brothers
Only exists in dreams
But I am not giving up on this
If fear is an arm that lifts us up
It decimates us
I fear it for the dawn of time
She loves Noah, but she has to wins the tournaments
She loves Boli but has never abolished anything
She loves Noah, but must win the tournaments
She loves Boli but has never abolished anything
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The noise of the jackhammer
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The noise of the jackhammer
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The sound of the jackhammer
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The sound of the jackhammer picker
Who built this road?
Who built this city?
And who doesn't live there?
To those who complain about the noise
To those who condemn the smell
I introduce myself
My name is Larbi, Mamadou Juan and make way
Guido, Henri, Chino Ali I am not ice
A voice told me Marathon seeks the light
From the abyss I drew a fight there Good affair
I was sick of the fear that I read in the eyes
Of those who have next to nothing and who believed it to be precious
When I I understood the law, I understood my defeat
Integrate yourself, she said, it was done
The noise and the smell , noise and smell
The noise of the jackhammer
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The noise of the jackhammer
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The sound of the jackhammer
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The sound of the jackhammer
The sound of the jackhammer in your ears
You end your life, the bees buzz
The sound of the jackhammer in your ears
You end your life, the bees buzz
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The noise of the jackhammer
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The noise of the jackhammer
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The noise of the jackhammer
The noise and the smell, the noise and the smell
The sound of the jackhammer
How do you expect the worker
Frenchman who works with his wife
And who together earn approximately
15,000 FF and who sees on the
Landing next to his crowded HLM
A family with a father
Three or four Wives and a
Twenty kids and who earns
50,000 FF in social benefits
Naturally working
If you add to that the noise and the smell
Well the worker
French on the landing, he's going crazy
And it's not being racist to say that
We no longer have the means
To honor family reunification
And we must finally open the debate
Who is necessary in our country
Who is a real moral debate to
Know if it is natural that foreigners
Can benefit in the same way as the
French But of a national solidarity in which
They do not participate since they
Do not pay taxes
The noise and the smell
The noise and the smell