L'Histoire Se Répète Lyrics in English Keny Arkana

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song L'Histoire Se Répète by Keny Arkana from French to English.
We said no to war
Nobody listens, nobody hears
First and foremost, child of Earth
Borders are only an illusion
One and the same planet
One humanity with a thousand facets
One humanity with a thousand colors
One humanity dying in its flesh
We said no to war, no to famine
No to fear of the Other
No to obeying the hierarchy
When it speaks words of death
From south to north, what do we honor?
What are the values?
The other is your mirror
Hitting your reflection means hitting yourself
And breaking it means more than seven years of bad luck
And history repeats itself
And history repeats itself
And history repeats itself
And history repeats itself
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war
No to the deadly spiral
It's always civilians who pay
And always the same mistakes as yesterday
Tell me whose heart is faithful?
And I'll tell you who thinks for themselves
In the shadow of a thousand-year quarrel
It's up to us to reach the light
We said no to the death of the Other
No to hate, no to power struggles
No to troops armed with raw vengeance
Tell me, your terrorists, who sells them their drugs?
Who sells them their weapons?
It's way more profitable to fire rockets than to make peace
Finding enemies
The wounded innocent will become one tomorrow
And history repeats itself
And history repeats itself
And history repeats itself
And history repeats itself
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war
No to the human loss you call collateral
No to exploiting misery
Which leads to treating people like rats
Head underwater before seeing the danger
We sense it by the shape of the waves
We solve nothing by expressing
Urges with the strength of flames
We said no to war
Since we're old enough to understand
End up in jail for a fight
When your country speaks only of revenge
Of the art of being ruthless
It legitimizes its attacks
With heaps of words
That aren't true at all
When bombs explode
And history repeats itself
And history repeats itself
And history repeats itself
And history repeats itself
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
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Keny Arkana’s “L’Histoire Se Répète” is a rallying cry wrapped in hip-hop beats. The French rapper invites us to picture Earth as a single neighborhood where borders are make-believe and every face is a reflection of our own. With passionate chants of “On a dit non à la guerre!” she slams the never-ending loop of conflict, famine, and fear, pointing out that ordinary people always foot the bill while the powerful cash in. By asking “Dis-moi qui a son cœur est fidèle?” she challenges listeners to think for themselves and break the cycle rather than obey death-dealing hierarchies.

The song mixes urgency with hope. Arkana exposes the profit behind weapon sales, the way hate is manufactured, and the way history keeps replaying its darkest tracks. Yet she also hands us a microphone: unity, empathy, and conscious resistance can flip the record. In two relentless verses and a chant-heavy hook, she turns anti-war conviction into an anthemic reminder that when we refuse violence together, we have the power to stop history from hitting repeat.

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