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Alter Marseillaise

from Neo Dogmas by The Twisted Minds

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I proudly sang the Marseillaise in (july of) 1998.
I proudly sang the blood in peace time, is everything alright?

Patriotism is still considered as a state value, honorable stuff.
We still sing the song that justified
Napoleonic wars and empire and colonialsim.

I do keep my ID
And for sure I'm proud of what we are !

Aren't we meant to fight for ideas, for a real cause?
Instead of a blind concept of nation...
These ideas put us down, and don't put up,
They put us down, down, down.

(You're fucking dumb!)
How could I have sung such a song in 98 ?
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After the recording of this album, I went to live in Australia for some months. I've never felt so french, and I miss so much my stinky cheese. That's my culture, my roots. But nothing in common with patriotism. Blind patriotism is a feeling that I can't understand, because it is only based on a place of birth, no value, just a flag, an anthem. It's matter of fact, patriotism drives to hate, confrontation with the other nation, so racism. Just stupid pride.
Culture is something to share and not to keep for ourselves. So why do we have to sing "Aux armes les citoyens, formez les bataillons, qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons" when we get a gold medal at the Olympic Games? I had a reason to be 200 years ago, not anymore. So why is the french government trying to make this law to make teach our good ol' national anthem in our school programs?

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from Neo Dogmas, released March 30, 2007

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