Balance Lyrics in English Mentissa

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Balance by Mentissa from French to English.
Tell me
How many this time
Extra kilos
Throw me what I already know
Deep under my skin
You know I starve myself
For a number with two tears
That's never how it should be
From below, you look at me
You laugh at me, you taunt me
That's not nice
Throw me
Throw it all
I've freed the weight
That weighed heavy on my heart
That kept me from being beautiful
That kept me from being me
Throw me
Throw it all
I've freed the weight
That kept me from being beautiful
That kept me from being me
I've slimmed
I told you Yeah, I'm okay
But it still wasn't okay
Funny life
We're never enough
Good enough with ourselves
You, there, talking to me
Who judge me guilty
Who pile it all on my back
From below, you stare at me
You'd like me to leave again
With just skin and bones
Throw me
Throw it all
I've freed the weight
That weighed heavy on my heart
That kept me from being beautiful
That kept me from being me
Throw me
Throw it all
I've freed the weight
That kept me from being beautiful
But the older I get
The more I lighten up
It's only my plumage
What do you want me to leave?
What do you want me to do?
It'll never be enough
Now when it's not okay
I tell myself it'll pass
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Outro
Throw me
Throw it all
I've freed the weight
That kept me from being beautiful
That kept me from being me
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SONG MEANING

“Balance” turns a small bathroom scale into the loudest critic in the room. In this soulful pop anthem, Belgian singer Mentissa has a sharp conversation with that unforgiving piece of metal, demanding it to “spill” the extra kilos and repeat the harsh judgments she already knows by heart. The verses lay bare the cycle of crash-dieting, self-doubt and feeling watched from below by the scale’s cold stare. Every digit it shows is “a number with two tears,” a reminder that no matter how much she starves herself, the verdict never seems good enough.

Then comes the musical plot twist: liberation. With the hook “Balance-moi, balance tout,” she flips the meaning of balance from “scale” to “throw it all away.” Mentissa decides to drop the heaviest weight of all—the shame on her heart that kept her from feeling beautiful and authentic. As the song rises, she celebrates aging, shedding expectations like old feathers, and trusting that bad moments will pass. “Balance” is both a cathartic purge and a self-love manifesto, urging listeners to silence external judgments, step off the scale and dance in the freedom of being unapologetically themselves.

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