N.E.G.R.A. [English] lyrics

(In this world that goes slower

Than the people walking on it

Cécile, Frankie, Show!

If you want to see the picture

Take the blinders off you

The monsters are inside you

And that’s the final truth

If you want to see the picture

Take the blinders off you

The monsters are inside you

And that’s the final truth)

I’m talking to you looking at me

As if I were an alien

To a mother drawing children close

When they see me coming

To a child at school I had to explain

My blood was red

When I turned I heard him laugh

Like I was mad

People talk behind my back

Thinking I can’t hear

(I’ve nothing to them

But you know they’re very different, it’s clear

You girls who got your white-skinned Barbies

Fifty years ago

I had to wait to hold a kiss for my black-skinned doll, don’t you know

There are those who say that gays and blacks are equal

But they don’t mean they’re equal to the so-called normal people

When they say ‘equal’, what they mean is equal to each other

And different from the normal folks too without the others

I vanish in the night when I close my mouth and eyes

And you’re afraid cos I’m as dark as night

(Dark as night)

Do you like me enough for simpler kind of fling

But we will know it truly no it doesn’t mean a thing

And that’s because I’m

N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A.

But the second you see me naked naked naked

You don’t mind even if I’m a

N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A.

But the second you see me naked naked

You just don’t give a damn

N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A.

But the second you see me naked naked naked

You don’t mind even if I’m a

N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A.

But the second you see me naked naked

You just don’t give a fuck

If you want to see the picture

Take the blinders off you

The monsters are inside you

And that’s the final truth

If you want to see the picture

Take the blinders off you

The choices are inside you

And set the violence have you)

I don’t know you but I’m softly smiling at you

But you look right through me and you make me feel transparent

It’s been a lifetime I’ve been fighting with these dragons

Not even Harry Potter has a chance with these demons

Ignorance and arrogance

All that counts is appearance

Total lack of substance

That’s all indifference

So I cry alone the tears of this defeat

(Don’t you worry about the N.E.G.R.A.

Soon she’ll rise back on her feet

Very noxious commonplaces

Sadder than cemeteries

I was a child and I wasn’t ready

But I learned, and I already knew

That the uncomfortableness I would have met along the way was true

Nothing like Balotelli, nothing like ‘boooh’

N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A.

But the second you see me naked naked naked

You don’t mind even if I’m a

N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A.

But the second you see me naked naked

You just don’t give a damn

N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A.

But the second you see me naked naked naked

You don’t mind even if I’m a

N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A.

But the second you see me naked naked

You just don’t give a fuck

N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A.

Naked naked naked

N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A. N.E.G.R.A.

But the second you see me naked naked naked

You just don’t give a fuck

• Artist:Cecile