(Life as a kid shouldn't be so tough)
(Life as a kid shouldn't be so tough)
(Life as a kid shouldn't be so tough)
(Life as a kid shouldn't be so tough)

Little brother only has one wish, to grow up
That's why he insists on playing the savage from the age of ten
To become an adult with the news as a mentor
It's to smash the heads of those who disagree
At the time when big brother was a kid
We had fun with Snow White and the seven dwarfs
Now the dwarfs have kicked out Snow White and hit, explode
Some guys are getting killed in Mortal Kombat
At thirteen he already loves money
Greedy but his pockets are arid
So we play the tough guy at parties
Which are now evenings, no more Teisseire syrup
Little brother wants beers, I don't think it was voluntary
The adult certainly indirectly showed that doing evil is good
Tomorrow his notebooks will be full of erasures
Little brother smokes spliffs and breaks cars

Little brother has deserted the playgrounds
He can barely walk and wants seven-league boots
Little brother wants to grow up too fast
But he forgot that there's no point in running, little brother

(Life as a kid shouldn't be so tough)
(Life as a kid shouldn't be so tough)
(Be so tough)

Little brother dreams of cars, clothes and money
Of a tough reputation, for all that he would steal the moon
He collects misdeeds
Without caring about the harm he does, while asking for respect
He doesn't care about what tomorrow will bring
Giving some reasons to despise his younger brother
In his head the radiation of the cathode tube
Has stifled the vibrations of Africa's Tams-Tams
No more school bag, he wouldn't know what to do with it
He doesn't play marbles anymore, he wants to play with a revolver
Little brother has thrown away his soldiers
To become a warrior and think about the loot he will amass

Little brother has deserted the playgrounds
He can barely walk and wants seven-league boots
Little brother wants to grow up too fast
But he forgot that there's no point in running, little brother

(Life as a kid shouldn't be so tough)
(Life as a kid shouldn't be so tough)
(Times have changed, tomorrow everything will be better you'll see)

Journalists make trends, violence at school already existed
In my time, the rackets, the fights, the damage
The bat hits in the windshields of the teachers' cars
Troubles with cutter blows
But talking about it on the news every night becomes banal
It prints in the retina as a normal situation
And if little brother wants to make himself known
He repeats what he saw before eight-thirty
Damn, in '80 it was states of facts
But now these journalists have made states
And I don't think little brother is worse than before
Just overexposed to advertising, to violent acts
For the adults, the kid is the best lemon
The number 1 target, the field of consumer products
And to make sure he gets it
Little brother makes sure, gun at the belt

We know what you are when we see what you own
Little brother knows it and keeps this fact in mind
Money would open the doors to a blue sky for him too
As easily as his screwdrivers open the doors of cars
The high standing, that's all he wants
It goes better when you wear a Giorgio Armani
Concerned about people's gaze
Despite his young age, little brother smokes to appear taller
He would like to take the highway to fortune
And doesn't realize he could lose feathers there
He has just come out of his egg
And already little brother wants to be bigger than the ox

Little brother has deserted the playgrounds
He can barely walk and wants seven-league boots
Little brother wants to grow up too fast
But he forgot that there's no point in running, little brother

(Life as a kid shouldn't be so tough)
(Life as a kid shouldn't be so tough)
(Life as a kid shouldn't be so tough)

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