En attendant [English translation]

It's been in style for a while now

On the eve of every election

The word "change" gets chanted

And is promised to us on all fronts

Obviously it turns out to be just hype

It's not the first time they trick us

An agenda from a government

Is like a promise from a drunk

But the people forget quickly, it doesn't matter

They just need to make a good budget

And speak about health, for all the idiots

To reelect them the year after

That way you can secretly

Continue to exploit men

And globalize the planet

To enrich all your friends

In the meantime, long live change!

The one you've been offering every four years

Because if all of this is making us regress

Then it's true! That you keep your promises

The fancy political slogans

"We're ready", yes you're ready!

To privatize, what is public

Supposedly in our interest

When on top of that they toss out

The social gains from the past

Going back to the times of cheap labour

Is that what it means to be "outsourced"?

So that their projects can be accepted

They invent new expressions

Even the terms are sterilized

To confuse the population

Reengineering of the State

Or maybe deregulations

Is it in order to pass me the soap

That you spew me your gibberish?

In the meantime, long live change!

The one you've been offering every four years

Because if all of this is making us regress

Then it's true! That you keep your promises

No to exploitation! (NO!)

To domination! (NO!)

No to exclusion!

These are words that still exist...

No to not caring! (NO!)

Neo-liberalism (NO!)

No to imperialism!

These are the evils that put us to sleep...

It doesn't take any grand theories

To understand that all decisions

Are dictated by economy

Even if it borders on derision

When corruption becomes a plague

And provides income to friends of the regime

With the money from our taxes

Well I call that a crime

So that's the reason I say no way!

To their fake chloroform changes

That make us take a step back

All under the pretense of reforms

I think that in this mediocrity

Where we lose ourselves in the similarities

Shouting remains the way out

To counter the ignorance

While waiting for the real change

The one that will make us go forward

I get moving and question myself

And I counter-revolutionize...

No to exploitation! (NO!)

To domination! (NO!)

No to exclusion!

These are words that still exist...

No to not caring! (NO!)

Neo-liberalism (NO!)

No to imperialism!

These are the evils that put us to sleep...

Deregulations! (NO!)

The privatizations! (NO!)

Looking farther than the horizon!

And coming together to be strong

Let's send our people forward

Let's send them forward (x4)

Interlude

Let's send our people forward

Let's send them forward (x4)

• Artist:Les Cowboys fringants
• Album:La Grand-Messe (2004)