Banlieue Rouge

You live in Lenin estate on Allende boulevard
From the kitchen window, you can see the factory
In 40 years of assembly line, you never wondered
If one day your whole world could collapse
You lived through '68 in Prague and Paris
Romanian Revolution, Perestroika
Tiananmen Square, Ortega's defeat

You love it, you cherish it
You would defend it with your life
Your suburb, your suburb, your red suburb

Anyway, for you, nothing will ever change
And every May Day, you will always march
Your red banner in the wind, fist clenched, raised
The comrades' struggle will never be in vain

You still walk the streets of your red estate
From Gagarin square to Warsaw street
You still dream of a youth in motion
The affronts of the past, the fight is not over

You live in Lenin estate on Allende boulevard
From the kitchen window, you can see the factory
In 40 years of assembly line, you never wondered
If one day your whole world could collapse
For you, history is written by L'Humanité
It stifled the cries of leftist militants
Mao, Stalin, Lenin, only the portraits remain
But these shadows of the past, you love them forever