My name is Slimane and I'm fifteen years old
I live with my parents in La Courneuve
I have my CAP of delinquency
I'm not a loser, I've proven myself
In the gang, I'm the tallest
On my arm, I have a snake tattooed

I haven't been to jail yet
Apparently it's because of my age
Apparently it's not great
You're a bit like in a cage
Because here you think it's funny
You think the street is a vacation

I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose
Not even life
I only love death in this shitty life
I love what's broken
I love what's destroyed
I especially love what scares you
Pain and night

I put an ad in Libé
To find a nice chick
Who would work to pay for my food
Since me, the job for me to touch
I would need twice as many fingers
So you see, it's not won

What I would like is to be unemployed
To get money without doing anything
And like that, I would be on social security
I could get my teeth replaced for free
All the teeth I lost
In fights that went wrong

I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose
Not even life
I only love death in this shitty life
I love what's broken, destroyed
I especially love everything that scares you
Pain and night

I don't even have money to buy weed
So, I get high with what I can
Trichloroethylene, tire repair glue
It's true that sometimes it makes you sick
But for the price, it's the best we can do
And it cleans the nostrils

At night, we roam the parking lots
Looking for a not too ruined BMW
We borrow it for an hour or two
We drop the car off at Porte Dauphine
We go to the prostitutes, just to watch
To remember it in our beds at night

I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose
Not even life
I only love death in this shitty life
I love what's broken
I love what's destroyed
I especially love everything that scares you
Pain and night

There's another thing that interests me
It's music with friends
We formed a hard rock band
We rehearse in the evening in a basement
On somewhat rotten amps
On somewhat stolen equipment

We even found an old fool
Who wanted to make us a record
It failed because this wretch
Didn't want us to sing in Kabyle
We hit his head against a brick
Even the brick was hurt

I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose
Not even life
I only love death in this shitty life
I love what's broken, destroyed
I especially love everything that scares you
Pain and night

Sometimes, I tell myself that 3000 miles away
From my city, there's a country
That I will probably never know
Maybe it's better, maybe it's too bad
That there too, I would be a stranger
That there too, I would be nobody

So, to feel like I belong
To a people, to a homeland
I wear around my neck on my leather
The black, white and gray keffieh
I've invented brothers for myself
Friends who are also dying

I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose
Not even life
I only love death in this shitty life
I love what's broken
I love what's destroyed
I especially love everything that scares you
Pain and night

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