We are made with (?) pain, we are made
The people of Réunion are made with slavery, made with indentured servitude
Made with love too, made with suffering, it's a domination
We are children of rape, children of love
We are children of resistance, children of rebellion
And I am always amazed by the living, by life
So for me, it's important
To tell what people have lived in pain
But also what we have built

Réunion has built something that is-
Dangerous, in the sense that it is strong, (?)
We have built something together
But we are children of the dominator against the dominated
Children of slavery against the enslaved
The slave, so-
When I go to work on the plantation, I plant my food
I plant corn
Well, I plant my corn but I have to share my corn with the ants
Because corn is sweet, it's sugary
And ants love sugar
And I also love sugar, so
We have to share the land, the nature
We find our place, everyone has their place
It's important to feel the earth, to feel humanity

It's always in dance, it's always (?)
It's like freedom doesn't exist, freedom doesn't come with a good evening
And it works forever, it's not true
Whatever the system, whatever the history
We always have to fight again
It's fighting again, in the end, it's watering again
The tree you planted
Planted in the heart of people, but you have to water it
You have to maintain it, you have to prune it, you have to-
There, you have to know how to take care of it
It's never finished
But that's life, life is like that

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