L'oeil Du Mensonge Lyrics in English by Nessbeal

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Verse 1

Always surrounded by these people who drag you down

Our vision warped, we hype ourselves up, sin, free fall as our motto

Our daily lives, doing wrong for no reason, into the void

Collective suicide, I'm native to the Soufrière

Active to grab the cash, many are captives

With some gear I light a spliff, wrecking myself, I'm the only one to blame

We give importance to things that aren't worth it

An outpouring of murder, a gun, and our hearts die, killed by hate

The street, many saw themselves prosper and hope there

The root of the word 'terrain' would be the word 'buried'

Hope locked up, we can hardly breathe

We make trouble for our mothers, it's tears of blood we make them cry

So wasted we don't see when they're worried

In search of happiness, how do you make a million without a rocket launcher?

There are questions I ask myself when others didn't have the time

This life, how I contemplate it, a P38 against my temple

Chorus 1

There's no need to go to prison anymore to lose your mind

A funeral oration riddled with lead is our horizon

When illusion is in my dreams

The retina needs to see something else

Better to lose your sight than your reason

Chorus 2

There's no need to go to prison anymore to lose your mind

A funeral oration riddled with lead is our horizon

When illusion is in my dreams

The retina needs to see something else

Better to lose your sight than your reason

Verse 2

An insult to our fathers, getting killed at the hour of the dawn prayer

Here we fear the police unit, where they shoot to look tough

Getting wasted just to think

Praising ignorance, many sign in at the probation office

You have to suffer to grow wise, they swear over nothing

My stay on Earth, before I leave I have to be squared away

We do nothing all day, we put it off to some other day

We sink into the lie, our faces without light

People talk about love but the world eats away like a tumor

Our ways are extreme, the eye of mourning

A cemetery in my home, a dagger, on my knees

The gossips are surprised, the unemployed drive BMWs where we live

We want to change but we're afraid of what we'll become

Adrift, leave this ship before it capsizes

Alone we put ourselves in the line of fire, we dream, we rise

We die without becoming emirs

So many enemies on my path, not a day we don't pick the wrong fight

I'm in a minefield, before I'm judged they'll have to pray my funeral prayer

It's for our families that we end up over there

God willing, leave in white djellabas

Chorus 3

There's no need to go to prison anymore to lose your mind

A funeral oration riddled with lead is our horizon

When illusion is in my dreams

The retina needs to see something else

Better to lose your sight than your reason

Chorus 4

There's no need to go to prison anymore to lose your mind

A funeral oration riddled with lead is our horizon

When illusion is in my dreams

The retina needs to see something else

Better to lose your sight than your reason

Verse 3

It's no longer a rocking boat but a raging river

It comes back like a boomerang and I sing of broken hearts

Cut in two, divided is my family

I isolate myself and struggle to take off the straitjacket of the mind

They tell me to tighten my belt, I don't have one so I tighten the string

I do nothing alone, nothing here below is mine except my shroud

Avoiding the lynching, I need nobody to wash my dirty laundry

I spoke of love, above me there was a gallows

Intense life, instinct, every moment has its importance

I can't sleep anymore, on my doorstep death at my door

Since that's all there is around us

We think all women are sluts

It's too late, the illusion is in the pupil

We know nothing about love, and if God gave us sons

The eye of lies is seeing wrong

With my back to the wall I climb a ladder, it leads straight to the scaffold

Chorus 5

There's no need to go to prison anymore to lose your mind

A funeral oration riddled with lead is our horizon

When illusion is in my dreams

The retina needs to see something else

Better to lose your sight than your reason

Chorus 6

There's no need to go to prison anymore to lose your mind

A funeral oration riddled with lead is our horizon

When illusion is in my dreams

The retina needs to see something else

Better to lose your sight than your reason

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linceul — burial shroud

Linceul means a "burial shroud", the cloth traditionally used to wrap a dead body. It is a rare, poetic word with a solemn and memorable sound.

In the song, the line « rien ne m'appartient ici-bas à part mon linceul » means "nothing belongs to me in this world except my burial shroud," emphasizing the fleeting nature of life and possessions.

Nessbeal builds the whole song around one image: an eye that sees wrong. The title, "L'œil du mensonge" (the eye of the lie), returns in the line "L'œil du mensonge c'est voir faux" (the eye of the lie is seeing falsely), and the chorus closes on "Mieux vaut perdre la vue que la raison" (better to lose your sight than your reason). The people around him have "la vue faussée" (warped vision): they chase cash, smoke to forget, and make their mothers cry "des larmes de sang" (tears of blood) without noticing they are worried.

The verses are a list of what that blindness costs on the estate. He jokes darkly that "la racine du mot terrain serait le mot enterré" (the root of the word 'terrain' would be the word 'buried'), and the chorus says "Y'a plus besoin d'aller en prison pour péter les plombs" (there's no need to go to prison anymore to lose your mind), because the horizon is already "truffé de plomb" (riddled with lead). Near the end he admits the fear underneath it all: "On veut changer mais on a peur de ce qu'on va devenir" (we want to change but we're afraid of what we'll become).

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