Comme Un Aimant Lyrics in English Keny Arkana

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Comme Un Aimant by Keny Arkana from French to English.

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Since I was fifteen, like a magnet

I went round the world like a bird

The hood in my skin in every move

Street kid grew up rough, I tried

Gold in the heart

Wary like a wounded animal

Never tamed, you can leave me

Like a magnet, I think of before

I cry for my dead, I talk to ghosts

I fight my demons

Full speed no helmet like I'm fifteen

I'm waiting for death

Obscurantism, is the world screwed

The world is talking

I fall asleep to street fights screaming

And wake to the seagulls singing

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Between overflow and nothingness

Only soothed out in the open air

I choke till I lose my mind

Those who kept watch have all gone

I'm like that old woman, I live in the past

Hurt by promises betrayed

And by injustices that won

Like a magnet, everything's carved

In their judgments we read our stigmas

And in our stigmas

We read our wounds that heal badly

And we live it badly

Used to picking up the debris

Used to being dissed

Our distress, if ever we voice it

Then we play it cool

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Like a magnet

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Like a magnet

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Like a magnet

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Like a magnet

Like a magnet, like a magnet

I can't leave the hood, nah

Generation Tomorrow's Far Away

Walk in a pack like stray dogs

Walk through the city till no hour

CV, CV since the nineties

Anything can ignite in a blink

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Same ones are out

Out of line, fond of off-piste

Blows of fate teach you acrobatics

Wild kid survived, I tried

Dream of the open, but captive like the wounded beast

They tried to tame, you better beware

Like a magnet

Loving heart or hateful heart

'Cause rancor is huge, ours fade out

Of those we strangle, of those they trash

Of those we hate

Between ascent and free fall

Nothing cushions

So we live head to the wind, full blast

Smile on lips

Like on a two-wheeler along the cliff road

Like a magnet, in these dark corners

Treated like rats by the police

So my brothers play cat and mouse

Joints in mouth, night birds go hunting

The moon is full, blood is boiling

The madrugada will end up slashing

Down on the ground, like a magnet

In those hours when it burns

Where booze flows in hot tears

Eyes fogged till dawn or till beyond

Nothing changes, except plainclothes and narcs

Nothing makes sense anymore

Families evicted, nights blood-bath

To our prisoners, to our missing

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Like a magnet

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Like a magnet

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Like a magnet

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Like a magnet

Like a magnet, like a magnet

I can't leave the hood, nah

Generation Tomorrow's Far Away

Walk in a pack like stray dogs

Walk through the city till no hour

CV, CV since the nineties

Anything can ignite in a blink

Like a magnet, like a magnet

I can't leave the hood, nah

Like a magnet, like a magnet

Walk in a pack like stray dogs

Like a magnet, like a magnet

CV since the nineties

Like a magnet, like a magnet

like a magnet, like a magnet

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“Comme Un Aimant” (Like a Magnet) pulls us straight into the heart of Keny Arkana’s Marseille streets. She paints the restless life of a kid who grew up outside, carried the neighborhood in her skin, and felt its tug wherever she roamed. Each line flickers between memories of lost friends, rooftop dreams, and the roar of late-night sirens. Arkana moves like a traveler with a wounded soul: suspicious of the world, yet clutching “gold in the heart,” forever drawn back to the concrete playground that shaped her.

The chorus repeats like a heartbeat, reminding us how powerful that magnetic force is. It drags her toward smoke-filled nights, clashes with police, and moments when rage meets camaraderie. Still, hope sparks amid the ruins: she races headfirst, no helmet, smiling in the wind, refusing to let injustice have the last word. The song is a raw diary of urban survival, grief, and fierce loyalty—a reminder that even when life spins between “too much” and “nothingness,” the human spirit keeps gravitating toward belonging and rebellion.

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