On a besoin de toi [English translation]

Everytime I see those steel birds tearing the sky up,

I think about my older brother and his occidental dream :

Every evening he used to read me letters from the Eiffel Tower,

From his buddy Moussa, gone to study french letters.

He said he was rich, that in France money grows from the ground.

Over there, we take care of you for free and even poor people go to school.

He used to make my brother dream, he who wanted another future,

I've lost my biggest landmark when I heard our parents telling him :

"Why do you leave the house, over there people forget the essential.

Why do you leave the house, don't think things are better there.

Everybody calls for you, we need you.

Don't leave us, we need you.

The hope of the parents, the future of the country,

Everybody calls for you, we need you"

Since you've left, every night we live with our eyes opened.

Since you've left, every day we're waiting for a little letter.

Ocean could have eat him,

Maybe he didn't know how to swim.

The heart left us when his little brother came to say

"Dad, I'm leaving the house, over there people are using their wings.

Mom, I'm leaving the house, don't you cry, your son's gonna pursue his dreams."

Everybody calls for you, we need you.

Don't leave us, we need you.

The hope of the parents, the future of the country,

Everybody calls for you, we need you

Mom, I'm back

Over there I thought I could fly,

(But) after school I did undeclared work, no, money doesn't grow from the ground.

It's only in soccer that they don't notice your skin color.

In the land of freedom, there are sheperds and herds.

I've also seen my older brother, he's living with Moussa far from the Eiffel Tower.

They stopped the studies to fill their plates,

Far from the african land, every morning in flee markets,

Tears in his eyes, he remembers when you used to say

"Why do you leave the house, over there people forget the essential.

Why do you leave the house, don't think things are better there.

Everybody calls for you, we need you.

Don't leave us, we need you.

The hope of the parents, the future of the country,

Everybody calls for you, we need you"

Don't leave us, we need you,

Don't leave us, we need you.

• Artist:Soprano
• Album:La Colombo et le Corbeau