I could have believed in George Bush but here it is
His vision of the USA does not satisfy me
Two-speed justice for Whites, for Blacks
The world's policemen do not deserve respect

They intervened in Kuwait for oil and money
Human rights don't matter in the land of the Klan
The arms dealers are happy, patriots are expensive
Cool war seen from an armchair, soldiers in the desert

It seems that George loves the Shiites
Especially when they are between Kuwait and Iraq
The Kurds can wait since they live
Near the Turkish border north of Baghdad

This vigilante enforces resolutions on whom he wants
Offering himself an exit from the White House under the spotlight
When a Tomahawk falls on a hotel you know it's normal
The Iraqi anti-aircraft defense aims poorly

Tell me, I would like to know
How does it feel to bomb a country with six thousand years of history?
Nothing for the authors of a genocide
I could have believed in Bush but I do not believe him

I could have believed in Saddam but here it is
He had Allah written on the Iraqi flag
How can he do that after persecuting
Hunting down devout Muslims for years?

Saddam, you won't make me believe
That you pray outside of the cameras
Do you even know that displaying your portrait everywhere
Is forbidden by our holy book, the Quran?

And you blaspheme, blaspheme, and blaspheme
You think you're Saladin, forgetting at the same time
That he was of Kurdish origin, abusing your people
Manipulating minds, calling for holy war

Holy war is called in Arabic "al-jihad fi sabil Allah"
"The effort on the path of God"
A Vatican document specifies
"Jihad is not at all the biblical fast"
"It does not aim at extermination"
"But at extending to new lands the rights of God and men"

May the servants of good curse him
I could have believed in Saddam but I do not believe him

"Believe me if you want"
"I do not believe him"
"Believe me if you want"
"I do not believe him"
"Believe me if you want"
"I do not believe him"
"Believe me if you want"
"I do not believe him"

I could have believed in Israel but
The different religions do not live in peace there
Two-thirds of the territory that the Zionists occupied
By the UN in '48 have never been allocated

Think of all those Russians and Poles
Freshly arrived
And who drove out the Palestinians who lived on this land
And who worked and cherished it for millennia

They were driven into camps and stripped there
They were massacred in Sabra and Shatila
God told men of all races
"Do not do to others what you would not like done to you"

After the killings by those Nazi dogs
I cannot believe you acted this way
I dreamed one night of two beautiful twin brothers
Palestine and Israel in harmony, sovereign and equal

But bullets against stones, cannons against rocks
Expelled to the borders, I cannot remain silent
The David of yesteryear has become Goliath, I
Could have believed in Israel but I do not believe it

I could have believed in Khomeini, in his sectarianism
His creed lacks a lot of realism
Unable to separate tradition and Islam
Just by the way he treats women

God never said anything so unworthy
And every holy book is understood between the lines
Mixing politics and religion means
Giving victory to the material over the spirit

To the human over the divine, to the moment over the past
Anyone who believes in God on earth does not need to rule
History proves it at every era
I could have believed in Ayatollah but I do not believe him

I could have believed the West if
All these countries had not had colonies
And upon independence had not cut them up like pies
Today there are wars because of map problems

Gloom, what is the source?
They swear by nothing but the stock market
They too have their fanatic extremists
Catholic arsonists who set fire to cinemas

Their reality shows, their rotten TV
Their voyeurism makes grandmothers cry
Smoke and mirrors, that is their strategy
I could have believed the West but I do not believe it

In all this chaos I know where I am
And I now know where I step today
And it is not without pride that I confess with emotion
That I could believe in God, in you, in me, and I believe it

"Believe me if you want"
"I believe it"
"Believe me if you want"
"I believe it"
"Believe me if you want"
"I believe it"
"Believe me if you want"
"I believe it"

"They lived in one of those rare times of certainty"
"Where man knows what he is doing"
"And where he is going because he believes"

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