It's at the Manhattan fast-food Dakar Senegal cinema le Paris,
Tomorrow I will be gone,
The Dakar station, Bamako Mopti
There's no problem? Everything is fine
Today I'm getting married, I trust
Amoul solo, Gao, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy.
There are no problems, I love!
I have at Manhattan fast-food Dakar Senegal cinema le Paris
Elevator to the ghetto

[Chorus]:
It's midnight in Tokyo
It's five o'clock in Mali
What time is it in Paradise?
It's midnight in Tokyo
It's five o'clock in Mali
What time is it in Paradise?

We who leave our countries
The children of the country must not forget us
We who are in this thing
None of us could name that thing
We who are in distant countries
The children of the country must not forget us

It's at the Manhattan fast-food Dakar Senegal, the grandmother in the hospital
Grandfather everything is fine, me here, you there, the visa at the consulate
Number 39, I'm waiting
At the civil status already the year 2000, already 2000 years at the Manhattan fast-food Dakar Senegal cinema le Paris,

[Chorus]

Dakar, Bamako, Rio de Janeiro
Where is the problem? Where is the border? Between the walls sneak into the elevator to the ghetto
At the Manhattan fast-food Dakar Senegal cinema le Paris,

We who leave our countries
The children of the country must not forget us
We who are in this thing
None of us could name that thing
We who are in distant countries
The children of the country must not forget us

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It's midnight in Tokyo, It's five o'clock in Mali
What time is it in Paradise?

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