Lotfi Double Kanon
Cha3b Krah (”The People are Fed Up”) English version
D'autant ... Explain to me who gave the order to repress Algerians!
Who went and killed the people?
By habit, they beat the Algerians
You ant to divide the Algerians!
Where are you going [where's your future in this]?
And the [situation of] this country doesn't bother you?
And the [situation of] the people doesn't bother you?

CHORUS (x2)
The people are fed up with these dogs and these wicked libertines
The people are fed up with these promises and these acts of wastefulness
The people are fed up with these betrayals and these dirty tricks
The people are fed up! The people are fed up! The people are fed up! The people are fed up!

The people are fed up with this standard of living that has them decaying and seething
The people are fed up with the ghouls who haunt the country and don't leave it be
The people are fed up with the people who have been sabotaging the budget recently
And who sowed misery in the land of l'Algerie
The people are fed up with this injustice, this rancor, and this deception
The people are fed up with the networking and the planning that became just a mess
The people are fed up with those who do nothing but fill their pockets
And - as usual - when they get stuck, they come up with a new law
The people are fed up with words, flip-flops, and statements
The people are fed up with oppression & being beaten on their backs during demonstrations
The people are fed up with riot police always meeting them at every march
With tear gas bombs and chains just to keep them walking straight
The people are fed up because in their own country their sons and even their daughters
Are going back home to sleep in humiliation until they die
And this chaos is killing them and silence never benefited them
And the day that they understood, the country realized it was too late!

CHORUS (x2)
The people are fed up with these dogs and these wicked libertines
The people are fed up with these promises and these acts of wastefulness
The people are fed up with these betrayals and these dirty tricks
The people are fed up! The people are fed up! The people are fed up! The people are fed up!

The people are fed up because everywhere the roads are busted
The people are fed up. Every time it rains there has to be floods!
The people are fed up. The people are dying. Every day in winter there's a funeral
While politicians simply cling to the seats of power
The people are fed up. That poor guy longs to get what he is rightfully owed
He does not need charity. Just give him what he sweated for!
Why do you fight him? Why do you hurt him? Why do you kick him away?
And when he reclaims his rights, why do you always have to go and beat him?
The people are fed up because they went through wars and revolutions
The people are fed up with the State of Emergency. Where is the wealth?
The people are fed up and the children of the elite are enjoying life
While the poor man hears "It's God's will" when we are in a crisis
The people are fed up. That's enough! They're still trying to make them stay patient
The money is running out and the gasoline is being hoarded
[The people] pour it by the centiliter and by the cent
While [the elite's] friends have been taken care of since the 1960s!

CHORUS (x2)
The people are fed up with these dogs and these wicked libertines
The people are fed up with these promises and these acts of wastefulness
The people are fed up with these betrayals and these dirty tricks
The people are fed up! The people are fed up! The people are fed up! The people are fed up!
The people are fed up because all the youth today are in effervescence
The people are fed up because all the youth today want to emigrate
The people are fed up. The leaders are failing. The matter has become urgent
The wicked man still makes a business out of selling the people's rights
The people are fed up. The truth is they now don't really know what they want to do
The people are fed up. They go the sea to let death come and take them away
The people are fed up. They commit crimes and blow themselves up in a car [bomb]
Or they turn to pills, beer and drugs all night long
The people are fed up with the people who make money here on their backs
With those who fled and made money that never reappeared
With those who studied hard and got crushed and reduced to coffee and cigarettes
And with those who spoke out or denounced it and immediately got put behind bars
The people are fed up because, in truth, today poverty is what they've been given
The people are fed up. They're the people who want to get a job and feed their family
The people are fed up. Problems are overwhelming them and never leave them
And people became each others' enemies over money!

CHORUS (x2)
The people are fed up with these dogs and these wicked libertines
The people are fed up with these promises and these acts of wastefulness
The people are fed up with these betrayals and these dirty tricks
The people are fed up! The people are fed up! The people are fed up! The people are fed up!