Chez nous [Plan d'Aou, Air Bel] [English translation]

You there, you'll go there, building twenty-three

You kids, what are you doing, go there

You're an Italian and you're a Malian, you'll be neighbors

One day we settled down there

You three there, what do you mean, cramped? No gibberish

It's temporary, you see, thirty years we've been here

The school downstairs, the tobacco shop, two stores here

And it's here where we grew up

We had crossed the seas

We had left it all behind

God, how pleasant life seemed to us

We were at home in Plan d’Aou, in Air Bel*

We toured around the world

On every floor, together

It's here where we grew our wings

In our Babel in Plan d’Aou, in Air Bel

Do you remember Sarah, Kader's a soldier

The crazy man at number three, the parties, gypsies, voices

It was tagine and pizza, duduk and guitar

Open doors and hope

It wasn't just football or rap and all the clichés

We dreamed of the CAP, the baccalaureate, a job and voting

The screw-ups, the missteps, watching out for dads

They fell into line every time

Refrain

We are the children of the towers

Everything has changed nowadays

The same sky and the same sun

But nothing is really the same

These are the same four towers

The doors locked tight

It was freedom, it was France

For us, it's suspicion and distrust

We had crossed the seas (Tell us, big brothers)

We had thrown away the misfortunes (But that was yesterday)

God, how pleasant life seemed to us

We were at home in Plan d’Aou, in Air Bel

We toured around the world (We don't know what to do)

On every floor, together (Each to his own affairs)

It's here where we grew our wings

In our Babel in Plan d’Aou, in Air Bel

Mmm (We don't know what to do)

Mmm (Each to his own affairs)

*. Neighborhoods in Marseille.

• Artist:Patrick Fiori
• Album:Promesse (2017)