Ouvrez les frontières
Tiken Jah Fakoly
Open the borders
OPEN THE BORDERS
Open the borders, open the borders (x2)
You come every year
Summer and winter
And we welcome you
Always with open arms
You are at home here
After all, it doesn't matter
We want to leave so open the door for us
Open the borders, open the borders (x2)
From the Strait of Gibraltar
We are thousands
Wanting like you
to come without an appointment
We want to travel
And also work
But we were not denied the visa
Open the borders, open the borders (x2)
We also want to have the chance to study
The chance to see our dreams come true
Have a good job
Be able to travel
Experience what you call 'freedom'
We want our families to lack nothing
We want to have a life where we eat our fill
We want to leave this daily misery for good
We want to leave here because we are all losing our minds
Open the borders, open the borders (x2)
Let us pass...
There's not a drop of water
To fill our bucket
Not even a drop of rain
At the bottom of the well
When the stomach is empty
On the way to school
One day he decides
To take flight, no no no no...
Open the borders, open the borders (x2)
Let us pass...
Open the door
Here we suffocate
Many of us want the Western dream
Open the door
Here the youth is running out of breath
Don't you see that it's vital for us
Open the borders, open the borders (x2)
Let us pass...
You have taken our beaches
And their golden sand
Put the animal in a cage
Cut down our forests
What do we have left
When our hands are empty
We prepare for the journey
And we jump into the void
Open the borders, open the borders (x2)
Let us pass...
