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That's it, they blew up the Eiffel Tower

We didn't think they'd dare, but the damage is done

How did we get here? Hard to believe

The night was calm, they only bombed three times

I went up to Paris to see my girlfriend

War grabbed us by the collar, dragged us out of routine

Swapped flowers for tears, whispers for screams

Her building was hit, I didn't find her under the debris

I'm going back empty-handed, catching the first train to join my family

The departure's set for tomorrow morning

People can do wonders and the craziest horrors

It's been four days since I heard from Oli

F*ck, it's war

We've smashed our ivory towers

I only knew it through history books

I'm watching over the family, yeah, our parents are getting old

We pack buses, block roads, protect ourselves however we can

And the crowd flees those lunatics without straightjackets

They say they're executing people in Capitole Square

Four tickets for a ferry, one chance to get away

A new life on the other side of the Mediterranean

The bullets taunt us, we're scared of being in the wrong place

My brother told me, If I don't come back, leave without me

Hard to stay informed, they cut the network

It's almost four days since I heard from Flo

Of course the noise of packed carriages keeps me awake

Some put their whole house at the bottom of a little bag

The train stops and starts, makes me nauseous

We did in two days what used to take six hours

I have to meet the family at the port of Marseille, but I'm late

I think they'll leave without me, what a nightmare

No big deal, I'll catch up with them by dinghy

No signal, impossible to get a single bar

I see a child on the ground, ask her if she's alone

She says she saw her parents lying under shrouds

People can do wonders and the craziest horrors

It's almost six days since I heard from Oli

Heading for Marseille A pile of everything in the hold

We pretend not to see all the bodies along the road

The cities have changed, life and horror so fast

The subways are dormitories, the cinemas hospitals

On the pier, we push and cram at the front

Suddenly the ferry shows up, some would kill for a spot inside

On board, I cry over the state of this world

We waited for my brother till the very last second

We don't want to be over there, we just want to be somewhere else

Finally breathe like the morning after a nightmare

The boat starts, I stare at its wake on the water

It's nearly seven days since I heard from Flo

I reach the port of Marseille with the little girl in my arms

Almost a day late, they've all left without me

But I have a smuggler's contact, a beach and a time

More than thirty of us, crammed in, of course we don't travel alone

He tells me Pick the girl or your bag to lighten the load

Then I empty my pockets and give him everything I have left

And here I am, actor in a strange fable

Chasing paradise on an inflatable boat, we sail far from here

And the bigger the waves get, the smaller our hope becomes

And it rocks, and it rocks, some fall into the beast's belly

Here we are in the middle of a storm

In a second, the girl slips from me and dives

I hear her screams carried off by the roaring sea

Rain, salt and tears mix together

A woman grabs my hips and drags me into the dance

The boat flips, we cling and we sink

Our cries for help are lost in the swell

To think not long ago I was with my friends

We went from bar to bar all night long

My lungs fill with water and my eyes close

My soul blows out its lantern

People can do wonders and the craziest horrors

I'll never get news of Oli again

The boat docks, first sight, barbed wire

My brother never told me about that

More guns and body armor

They make us sign papers in a language we don't speak

They search us, disinfect us like animals

They separate us from my father, no time for a last word

In temporary camps, blankets, a mattress

A guy from Nice tells me he's been here for months

I already miss Toulouse, my mother falls asleep in my arms

She keeps whispering that Flo will join us

The heat is suffocating, we've emptied every bottle

In the paper I learn they blew up the Eiffel Tower

Next day they pack us into buses

Stacked on top of each other, the weak with the strong

Hundreds of crazies escort our departure

Fists raised in the air, shouts, dirty looks

I meet the eyes of a guy yelling with fervor

It's the first time on the trip I'm really scared

I can only see him in the middle of the crowd

On his sign it says Go back home

Outro

(But I'm sorry, we can't take in all the French

We can't take in all the French

They're arriving by the thousands

If they had a shred of honor

They'd go back to their country and fight for France

They'd fight to defend their family and their honor

That's how it is, I'm sorry

We come, we come from Nantes, and they've destroyed everything

Everything destroyed in Nantes, nothing left

We had, we had everything there, we've lost all we had

Uh, I don't know what to do, I don't even know where to go

I've lost some people from my family

Today, most of the problems our country faces

It's the French's fault

I'm sorry, before they came to us everything was fine

So we can't take people in either)

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linceuls — shrouds

Linceuls translates to "shrouds," which are cloths used to wrap a dead body. It's a somber and evocative word that isn't commonly found in everyday French songs, making it particularly striking.

In the context of this song, which describes the horrors of war, the word appears when the narrator asks a child if she is alone, and she replies that she saw her parents "couchés sous des linceuls" (lying under shrouds). This powerful image underscores the tragic and devastating impact of conflict on innocent lives.

Rentrez Chez Vous invites you to flip the script and picture your hometown under siege. From the opening line where the Eiffel Tower is blasted into rubble, Bigflo & Oli thrust us into a France ravaged by war, families torn apart, phones cut off, and trains crammed with desperate people. The narrator’s frantic search for loved ones leads him on a perilous escape across the Mediterranean, only to be met by barbed wire, suspicion, and the chilling insult, “Rentrez chez vous” (“Go back home”).

By swapping the usual roles – turning French citizens into refugees – the song forces listeners to feel the heartbreak, fear, and indignity that displaced people endure every day. It highlights our dual nature (“Les hommes sont capables de merveilles et des pires folies”): we can build iconic landmarks and show compassion, yet also unleash violence and xenophobia. In just a few vivid verses, Bigflo & Oli transform a distant headline into a personal nightmare, urging us to trade judgment for empathy and remember that nobody leaves home unless home has left them first.

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