LYRICS GAME

Look at me, I'm France from below

Unemployment and the crisis

Dude, I'm the one fighting it

I live every day

What you don't know, what you don't get

Right downstairs from you

Look at me

Look at me

I grew up far from the wealthy circles

With parents who didn't speak a word of French

Money troubles

Forced the old man to come home from the site with a busted back

To make sure the bailiffs never showed up again

To help them out, I worked through high school

'Cause they always said diplomas bring a job

I spent my nights working my butt off

Till the day I aced my exams

The family's pride

I was the glimmer of hope

To finally get them out of the projects

But despite my résumé, every door slammed shut

They said overqualified, I'd say too brown

I started working as a security guard

It was temporary to cover the baby's arrival

But the years went by, the bills piled up

I walked into a bank in a balaclava and yelled

Look at me, I'm France from below

Unemployment and the crisis

Dude, I'm the one fighting it

I live every day

What you don't know, what you don't get

Right downstairs from you

Look at me

Look at me

I grew up far from the wealthy circles

Totally French, from divorced parents

Thanks to a dad with a thing for booze

I had to quit school to help mama better

Pay for Johanna's diapers

My little sis

My jewel, my karma

The one who brings my smile back when things go bad

I already pictured her doctor or lawyer

But fate picked something else for my sister

At 16, a baby, rent to pay

The dad bailed, afraid to own up

Debts clogging her head, still no job

To buy milk and diapers for that little kid

She starts drinking to forget

Brain fried from smoking too much

One July night, belly full of pills

She starts screaming on the firemen's voicemail

Look at me, I'm France from below

Unemployment and the crisis

Dude, I'm the one fighting it

I live every day

What you don't know, what you don't get

Right downstairs from you

Look at me

Look at me

Me, I grew up in comfort

A bourgeois family

I'm the heir to a mega-rich clan in the 16th

Class rep at a private school

Graduated without trying

Thanks to my dad's yearly donation

Always sharp in Dior, Armani or Dolce

I circle the globe in a private jet

I get my tickets wiped 'cause I lunch at the Élysée

I spend my nights at Cost, nostrils dusted

I collect chicks

The hot Rihannas

Single for life

I told Johanna that

But she brought me a tiny baby

Said it was mine

And I had to step up

Of course I dumped her

Without looking back

But that night she calls, belly full of pills

To calm her down I went to see my banker

A hooded guy came in, stuck me up and yelled

Look at me

Look at me, I'm France from below

Unemployment and the crisis

Dude, I'm the one fighting it

I live every day

What you don't know, what you don't get

Right downstairs from you

Look at me

Look at me