Je T'aime Lyrics in English by Lara Fabian
Inavoué translates to "unacknowledged" or "unconfessed." It describes a feeling or truth that exists but has never been openly admitted, something kept secretly guarded inside.
Lara Fabian sings "Est le gardien inavoué" (Acts as the unspoken keeper), using the word to suggest a love so deep it silently protects everything without ever being voiced aloud. It's a quietly powerful word that captures devotion hidden beneath silence.
"Je t'aime" opens on a breakup already agreed to — "D'accord, il existait / D'autres façons de se quitter" [Okay, there were other ways to break up] — before the singer talks herself out of it. She traces old wounds back through a childhood image, "Tu me bordais, me protégeais" [You tucked me in, kept me safe], and a startling confession, "Je t'ai volé ce sang / Qu'on aurait pas dû partager" [I stole that blood from you, that we never should've shared], before the chorus breaks the tension wide open: "Comme un fou, comme un soldat / Comme une star de cinéma" [Like a madman, like a soldier, like a movie star].
The song's real subject is the gap between how she loves and who she actually is: "Comme un homme que je ne suis pas" [Like a man I'm not], a line that turns every repeated "je t'aime" into something closer to a dare than a declaration. By the bridge, even the imagery turns sacrilegious — "Satan nous regardait danser" [Satan watched us dancing] — and the song ends less as a love song than as an argument for loving recklessly anyway.
