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Nine Inch Nails – La Mer Lyrics 18 years ago
I consulted my French teacher about this song not too long ago. This is what we got:

The speaker/singer is speaking/singing in Creole French. (Most common in New Orleans)

The Creole lyrics are:
" Et quand le jour se lève
Je deviendrai le ciel
Et je deviendrai la mer

Et la mer viendra m'embrasser
Pour que j'aille à la maison

Rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant"

A close to literal translation:

" And the day has arrived
To thresh the sky
And to thresh the sea

And the sea has embraced me
And it has dispensed me from my cage

Nothing can stop me now"

And a more...English translation (makes a little more sense):
" And when the day arrives
I’ll become the sky
And I’ll become the sea

And the sea will come to kiss me
For I am going
Home

Nothing can stop me now"

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