On Lache Rien

This has become the French Speaking Worlds Anthem of Les Idignes or the 99%. This was Paris on Sunday. There were 100,000 people in front of The Bastille, brought together by Jean-Luc Melenchon, the presidential candidate of the ultra leftist Front Gauche, who as of today has over taken Marine Le Pen of the ultra right Front National as the third place candidate in the polling. This has been a very chaotic week in French politics with the first tour of the election only 31 days away. I have been trying to translate the lyrics to this song. I just saw a great video of the protest on March 22 in Montreal, using the same soundtrack! Here's my latest translation attempt: 

The bottom of my urban ghetto

Deep into your campaign

Our reality is the same

and resistance is growing everywhere

In this world we had not our place

It was not the face of employment

It was not born in a palace

It was not candy 

Homeless, unemployed workers

Farmers, immigrant, undocumented

They wanted to divide us

I will say they almost got there

and it was every man for his mouth

their system could prosper

But was that one day we wake

and 1%, the privileged heads will fall

Chorus:

We loose nothing, nothing to loose

nothing is loose, we loose nothing!

We loose nothing (Wallou)

We loose nothing (Wallou) (Wallou is Moroccan for nothing!)

We loose nothing, nothing to loose

They spoke of equality

and like fools we believed them

Democracy makes me laugh

If this were the case we have been able

to  balance our ballot

facing the law of the market,

Too bad my dear compatriots, but we thoroughly fucked

What the fuck are human rights against the sale of an Airbus

Basically there is a simple rule

sell more to sell more

The republic is a prostitute of the sidewalk dictators

Their rhetoric is longer believed,

Our leaders are liars

CHORUS

It's so stupid, so commonplace

to speak of peace, brotherhood

when the homeless dying on the slab

and we lead the hunt of the undocumented

We throw crumbs to the proletarians

History just to calm them,

they will not attack bosses millionaires

too valuable to our society

Amazing how they are protected, our rich and our powerful

There's not to say it can help

to be the friend of the President

Dear comrades, dear voters,

dear citizens consumers

the alarm sounded at the time it is

To reset the counters

As what has to fight, There is always hope!

As what we must do in life, There's some fighting

As we fight is that we are standing

While we're standing there let go

The will to win in our blood

Now you know why we fight

our ideal is more than a dream

Another world is not the choice

The Band is HK & Les Saltimbanks. The song, On Lache Rien is on their 2011 recording, World Citizen. They've been together since 2006