Rémi Du Chemin - Concrete Pulse Lyrics

[Intro]
Sirens in the distance, but we ain't running
Streets of Montreuil taught me more than their schooling

[Verse 1]
Concrete jungle got me feeling like a stranger
Every corner's got eyes, yeah, they label me danger
Watched my old man stand tall when they pulled him aside
Dignity intact while they're swallowing pride
Scanner static in my head like a broken lullaby
Arabic whispers in the wind as the world passes by
They think they got us figured out, boxed in their system
But every heartbeat's a rebellion, f*ck if they listen

[Chorus]
We rise like smoke through the cracks that they left
Every breath is resistance, middle fingers up next
Can't compress our spirit, can't contain this fire
Build walls around us, watch us build them higher

[Verse 2]
Piano keys bleeding into riot sounds
Classical training meets the underground
Yasmine led the charge back in '19
Voice like thunder, made the whole block sing
They push us to the edge, thinking we might break
But pressure makes diamonds, that's the path we take
Every siren wail's just another beat
In this symphony of souls who refuse defeat

[Bridge]
Pain ain't personal when we all share the weight
Turn trauma to power, watch the system shake
Distorted frequencies of our collective screams
Breaking through their walls like lucid dreams

[Verse 3]
Creole echoes in the alleyways tonight
Urban warriors dancing in the strobelight
They call it violence when we dare to breathe
Call it chaos when we refuse to leave
But this ain't your performance art, this is life
Where survival's beautiful and pain cuts like a knife
Every compressed moment, every distorted sound
Is another story from these sacred grounds

[Outro]
Let the dissonance ring, let it shake their towers
They gave us nothing but we grew these flowers
Through concrete and chaos, watch us bloom
In this beautiful violence, we found our truth