fermons les yeux – Bilingual Lyrics French/English

• By: Kyo

Lyrics & Translation

Discover "Fermons les yeux" by Kyo, a French pop-rock song that invites you to explore themes of empathy and inner vision. Through its evocative lyrics, inspired by a film soundtrack, you can learn about looking beyond the surface and opening your heart, offering a beautiful way to connect with French musical expression.

[English]

What are these borders that can still separate beings?

Like other prayers or other ways

But what is it that always drives us to build so many barriers

Fear, honor, or pride?

Let's close our eyes, let's close them if we want

To see beyond the faces

But what is the mirror that will give us the power

To see ourselves, in the end, as we are?

But what will help us live differently

Gestures, words, or time?

Let's close our eyes, let's close them if we want

To see beyond the faces

Let's close our eyes, let's close them just a little

Let's open our hearts more

We must put an end

To all these extinguished gazes

Do you finally hear

The cries that only ask to be silenced?

Let's close our eyes, let's close them if we want

To see beyond the faces

Let's close our eyes, let's close them just a little

Let's open our hearts more

...

[French]

Quelles sont encore ces frontières qui peuvent séparer les êtres?

Comme d'autres prières ou d'autres manières

Mais qu'est-ce qui, toujours nous pousse à dresser tant de barrières

La peur, l'honneur ou l'orgueil?

Fermons les yeux, fermons-les si l'on veut

Voir au-delà des visages

Mais quel est donc le miroir qui nous donnera le pouvoir

De se voir, en somme, tels que nous sommes?

Mais qu'est-ce qui nous aidera à vivre autrement

Des gestes, des mots ou du temps?

Fermons les yeux, fermons-les si l'on veut

Voir au-delà des visages

Fermons les yeux, fermons-les juste un peu

Ouvrons nos coeurs davantage

Il faudra bien mettre fin

À tous ces regards éteints

Entendez-vous enfin

Les cris qui ne demandent qu'à se taire

Fermons les yeux, fermons-les si l'on veut

Voir au-delà des visages

Fermons les yeux, fermons-les juste un peu

Ouvrons nos coeurs davantage

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
frontières /fʁɔ̃tjɛʁ/ B1	noun - borders, boundaries
separer /səpaʁe/ B2	verb - to separate, to divide
prières /pʁjɛʁ/ B1	noun - prayers
peur /pœʁ/ A2	noun - fear, fright
honneur /õnœʁ/ B2	noun - honor, respect
orgueil /ɔʁgœj/ B2	noun - pride, former
coeurs /kœʁ/ A2	noun - hearts
regard /ʁəɡaʁ/ B1	noun - look, gaze
vivre /vivʁ/ B1	verb - to live
gestes /ʒɛst/ B1	noun - gestures, movements
mots /mo/ A2	noun - words
temps /tɑ̃/ A2	noun - time, weather

Key Grammar Structures

• Quelles sont encore ces frontières qui peuvent séparer les êtres?

  ➔ Interrogative structure with 'quelles' (what) and relative clause.

  ➔ The phrase asks about the 'boundaries' that can separate beings, using a relative clause to specify.

• Mais qu'est-ce qui, toujours nous pousse à dresser tant de barrières?

  ➔ Use of 'qu'est-ce qui' for emphasis and the subjunctive mood.

  ➔ This line emphasizes what drives us to create barriers, using a subjunctive structure.

• Fermons les yeux, fermons-les si l'on veut.

  ➔ Imperative mood for suggestions and conditional clause.

  ➔ This line suggests closing our eyes, using the imperative form and a conditional clause to express choice.

• Ouvrons nos coeurs davantage.

  ➔ Imperative form with a reflexive pronoun.

  ➔ This line encourages opening our hearts more, using the imperative form to express a call to action.

• Il faudra bien mettre fin à tous ces regards éteints.

  ➔ Future tense with 'il faudra' (it will be necessary) and infinitive.

  ➔ This line expresses the necessity to end all the extinguished looks, using the future tense.