Histoires vraies [English translation]
Histoires vraies [English translation]
Chorus (Corneille):
Every face we touch
Every stranger on the road
All these hopes formulated in doubt
It's a little of all those things that writes history
Eh
It's a little of all those things
Eh
We're made out of all those things
You know
Any truth has a good memory
Eh
Oh
Oh
You Know
Any truth has a good memory
Eh
Oh
Oh
I Know
Any truth has a good memory
Yeah
(Youssoupha)
I tell about overcome challenges
About misunderstood dreamers
The misery, the winters
The little brothers in jail
The deaths, the schools
The excesses, the alcohols
The machines, the roots
Of Martin and Malcolm
The tounqueurs1, the palaces
The crushes, the palavers
The alleys, the most beautiful ones
The lights of Paris2
Those ready for love, the bad boys
The burqa, the guilty
The 2Pacs and Biggys
The absentees, the sighs
The accents, the smiles
The barbarians, the bazaars
The fights, the laughs
The dirty offenses
The funny times, the battles
The ransoms, the tensions
Michael's songs
Only true stories
[Chorus]
I tell about the future, the hours pass
The luxuries, the burglars
The nasty, the vicious
The riots in the 93rd3
The bourgeois, the poor
The blows below the belt, the rests
The dolls, the missed
Renaud's verses
The cops, the problems
The freestyle, the poems
The CDIstes, the strikers
The real lives of the bohemian
The clichés, the big loves
Those in the police records, the big bosses
The loves, the glamour
The heavy rap without the beat-box
The honors, the uneasiness
The joys, not feeling well
The rancor, the great hearts
The grandeur of the Maghreb
The colleagues, the potos
The concerts, the pogos
The softness, the pain
The colors of the Togo
(Only true stories)
[Chorus]
I tell about the heart, the land
The sisters, the mothers
Only true stories
I tell about the joy, the tears
The hopes, the fears
Only true stories
Only true stories
I tell about the women, the faults
The ones, the others
Only true stories
I tell about the street, the sky
The moon, the dreams
Only true stories
[Chorus]
1. I actually have no idea what 'tounqueurs' means, it's probably a word used in France but not here in Canada. Sorry 'bout that.2. 'Paname' is slang for 'Paris'.3. French Department 93, where the Clichy-sous-Bois riots took place.
- Artist:Youssoupha
- Album:Noir désir