05. Know When to Say NO (Prod by Infinity Prime)
(Lyrics)
[Intro]
Wake up !
The situation is serious: there has been too much talks
Crimes are known as long as the expression of one's opinions no longer changes anything
The Constitution has become a means of control for the country's rich
From now on, they'll be in charge, using the Constitution as a means
To protect the money and land they've stolen !
[1st Verse]
Day breaks again on the same sorrows
Congo is suffering and Denis (Sassou Nguesso) wants us to wear new chains
2016 after the violation of the Constitution
New elections, new fraud
So new crimes
But on the web you can see all the zombies showing off
The Pool bleeds
And dictatorship takes root
Tonight it rained and the Congo weeps
Augustin Kala-Kala was found dead
The scars of torture on his body
It wrinkles the mind, it's natural to tear out our hearts
Congolese taken hostage become
Worse than zombies
Fear gags them
In their nightmares of shells
In a normal country, theft and disorder should not be tolerated
Don't wait for injustice to affect someone close to you
Before speaking out
But why do you want to wait ?
While day by day
Congolese are killed
Threatened, massacred and tortured
Too many of our own are killed !
Stop repeating "God be praised" at every murder
Those who are killed and tortured are humans as well
Let’s speak out !
Before we're all nailed to the cross of the righteous
[Refrain]
Kidnapping, crime and torture
Fed up !
The bombings, the muzzling of the press
Fed up !
It shoots, it kills and nobody speaks out
Fed up !
The country is dying, burying it is what they want
Fed up !
Stand up and fight for your rights and freedom
Fed up !
Nothing is given, freedom must be reclaim
Fed up !
For our dead, our missing and our maimed
Compatriots keep the sluggishness of hope burning
[2nd Verse]
We're no longer slaves
So there's no need to kowtow
We must remain brave
As long as we remain inactive nothing will change
To see us still and afraid
That's what they want
And since no one will open it
From now on I've got to shout
Take away your fear the country won't change until you get moving
As long as you refuse the audacity monsters will be born in the country
Without Sankara's audacity
What would Burkina be
Without Mandela's audacity
What would South Africa be
Without Lumumba's audacity
What would DR Congo be
Without the audacity of Martin Luther King
Malcolm X or Rosa Parks
What would black people in the United States be today ?
Without the audacity of Tâ Matsoua
Of Kimbagu or Kimpa Vita
Where would the Congo still be today ?
After the colonists
It's our own who are killing us
After the jackpot
And everything they stole
They don't want it to end
They're all chasing their 3rd mandates and exterminating us
Do you really need proof to defend your own ?
When the rains of repression fall
They fall on all that move
And we all fall like animals
No madness allows you to condone the slaughter of innocents
A crime is a crime
Don't turn a deaf ear to the cries of bereaved mothers
Tribalism and the buying of consciences
It's all just to confuse us
[2nd Refrain]
[Outro]
Infinty Prime !
The prophets of our time
Voices that cry out in the silence of the desert
These are the ones the state is bent on martyring
Our democracy is dead
We are forbidden to say what we think
And even saying what I think today about my country
Should be enough to send me to prison without trial
Fist in the air
The fight goes on
Martial Pa’nucci ahhhgggrrr !
Compatriots keep the sluggishness of hope burning !