Lyrics for "MENTALITE AFRICAINE"
Mentalité Africaine (African Mentality)
The monkey is a monkey
Put it in any city in the world
It's still a bush animal
The center of palaver
I'm not there
The center of jealousy
The center of hypocrites
Take me somewhere else
You like to judge others, who's going to judge you
Others are moving forward
While we're moving backwards
Don't bring me palaver, jealousy, gossip,
I'm not there
Take me somewhere else I don't want it
Always criticizing, but not to help progress
Oh Africans,
We destroy in one day,
But we take forever to build
Oh Africans,
Why do we look at the specks of sawdust in our brother's eye
And pay no attention to the plank in our own eyes
We always talk about change,
When we ourselves have never changed
Our skin is dark, our heart is dark
Is this why we choose to live in the darkness
We spend time to waste time on discussions
Which have no importance
We get together only to destroy,
But never to work together to build
The center of jealousy
I'm not there
The center of wicked people
I'm not there
The center of gossip
Take me somewhere else I don't want it
For you African
The devil is someone else
Never yourself
But you're forgetting one thing
You're like a duck that has wings, but cannot fly
When I reached Yaoundé
I realized there's no difference
From Lomé to Cotonou towards Ouagadougou
It's the same thing
I went to Libreville passing through Abidjan
There's no difference
From Dakar to Bamako
From Nairobi to Lagos
We're all the same
Kinshasa, Lusaka, Monrovia, Accra
Let's change
Brazzaville, Bangui, Conakry, Malabo
Let's change the mentality
Cameroon change!
A lost generation
We should stop complaining, when we are the cause of our problems
You can talk, and talk, and spend time talking but don't you know that action speak louder than words
I should ask myself what did do
You should ask yourself what did you do
He should ask himself
What did he do to change the mentality?
Nothing, only talk
Living in Africa or Europe
There's no difference
Living in America or Asia
There's no difference
The mentality has never changed
Even if the suit is well sewn
The ideas are not well sown
We talk about change when we have not changed
He sees bad everywhere
Until his own shadow frightens him
Tags: PRINCE EYANGO/NGONE/SOUL BOTINGO/ EYANGO/MENTALITE AFRICAINE/YOU MUST CALCULER
