MC SOLAAR]Quand j'ai cree le monde et le jardin d'Eden[When i create the world and the Eden garden]
Avec la lune et le soleil comme lampe halogene[
Withe the moon and the sun by way of halogen lamp]
Il s'est glisse une erreur que je me pardonne[
A mistake had slip under my work that i forgive me]
Erare humanumes alors j'ai cree l'homme[Erare humanumes (Latin: means "i confess myself") so i create the man]
Il fit du sabotage, du lynchage, du pillage[
He did sabotage, lynchage, pillaging]
De la prise d'otage et du cambriolage[
Hostage-taking and burglary]
Je vous le dis, en verite il a fait davantage[
I tell you the truth he did more]
Quasiment Dieu il est a mon image[
Almost God he's like me]
Pfff Je pensais cree l'harmonie[Pfff i thought of creating harmony]L'imperfection du style etait ma seule phobie[
The style imperfection was only my phobia]
Je reve d'une treve, l'arbre perd sa seve[
I dream of a respite, the tree lost his sap]
Et puis j'ai fait Adam et Eve[And then i've done Adam and Eve]Le grand ou l'unique fait son meacoulpa[
The great or the only do his meacoulpa]
Certain y croit, le voit[
Some believe, see it]
Tandis que beaucoup ne le voit pas [While many don't see it]
Je vais le dire deux fois, car c'est tres dure a croire :[I will say it two times, 'coz it's very hard to believe:]"Dieu-
Dieu, crea-crea, l'homme-l'homme, comme-comme, prototype-prototype,["God-
God, created-created, man-man, like-like, prototype-prototype,] de-de, Claude-Claude, MC ... Solaar"[of-of, Claude-Claude, MC ... Solaar"] [BREAK] [MC SOLAAR]Eve a croque la pomme et la pomme etait bonne[
Eve has crunch the apple and it was good]
Elle cherchait la connaissance donc elle n'etait pas conne[
She look for the knowledge so she wasn't stupid]L'autre imita sa compagne quelque peu mythomane[
The other imitate her copanion rather mythomaniac]
Une trame de ce drame bifurque vers Paname[A framework of this drama fork to Paname (means Paris)]Puis il y eu le deluge et la tour de Babel[Then there was the Deluge and the Babel tower]
Le Veau d'Or et la tarte de l'odieux Jezabel[The Golden Calf and the odious Jezabel tart]J'avais coutume dans mon enfance en ecoutant ses histoires[I'd customary, in my childhood, listening those stories]
De croire a un mieux apres la spirale du cauchemar[
To believe in a better after the nightmare spiral]
Mais Dieu devient science et crea la bombe chimique[
But God become science and create the chemical bomb]
Le Veau d'or se batit de libres echanges economiques[
The Golden Calf built for himself free economics exchanges]
Les exclus de l'Eden font du squatte dans des tentes[
The expelled of the Eden squat in tents]C'est leur arche de Noe quand il y a pluie battante[It's their Noah's Ark when there's lashing rain]
De temps en temps, je pense a votre futur[
From time to time, i think in your future]
Il torture ma nature et ma litterature[
He torture my nature and my literature]
Notre Dame un dimanche un humain fait la manche[
Notre Dame (church in Paris), a sunday, a human pass the hat]
Pendant qu'un homme en blouse blanche fait de la poudre blanche[
While a man in white overall make white powder]
Hum, je pensais creer l'harmonie[Hmm, i think of creating the harmony]L'imperfection du style etait ma seule phobie[
The style imperfection was only my phobia]J'ai corrige mes erreurs au fil de l'histoire[I'd corrected my mystakes with the passing of the history]
Pour faire l'archetype du type unique MC SOLAAR[For making the archetype of the only type: MC SOLAAR] [MC SOLAAR]S O L 2 A R a bien les pieds sur terre[
S. O. L. 2 A. R. has his foot on the ground]
Fiere de la maniere avec laquelle coule ses vers [Proud of the manner with which flowed his verse]
Claude M.C., Claude aime ca[
Claude M.C., Claude like that]
Pas comme-ci pas comme ca[
Not so-so]T'aime pas tant pis le tempo est la[
You don't like, too bad, here is the tempo]
Bref, je suis le createur de mon style[
Brief, i am the creator of my style]
Pas d'imitation mais une recherche suptile[
No imitation but a tricky search]
Quand je dis, je fais, je pratique mes theories[
When i say, i do, i apply my theories]
Please Jimmy remet la melodie[
Please Jimmy (Jimmy Jay is the MC Solaar's DJ) put the melody back]
Apres la genese voici les revelations[
After the Genesis here are the Revelations]Je cherche la recherche de la perfection[
I search the search of the perfection]
Si je devais conclure, je n'en dirais pas plus[
If i had to conclude, i'll not say no more]C'est conclu a plus, plus[It's concluded Cya, plus]
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