Je T'aime Encore Lyrics in English Yelle

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Je T'aime Encore by Yelle from French to English.

It's been fifteen years that I make love to you

You still don't look at me

I turn turn turn around you

But you don't see me

I speak the same language

I defend it tooth and nail

From Tokyo to Portland passing by Barcelona

I make efforts, I explain well

I'm probably not adapted

When I export myself, I explain nothing

I don't need to explain

Maybe that's the truth

You ask yourself a lot of questions

Or maybe, maybe not enough

And it's me who's really stupid

I still love you

We met on a misunderstanding

We liked it

Apparently, it lasts three years

After, after it's not there anymore

We get used to it, we like each other, but it's not

It's not like before

You feel like I've changed

I feel like you're not twenty anymore

I write my story elsewhere

To have things to tell you

I never told you, by the way

How much, how much I admire you

You wrap yourself in what you know

Like a survival blanket

It's shiny, you like it

But why, why do you follow it

I explored the continents

I was given my freedom

The statue between my teeth

I didn't steal it, I didn't steal it

Ask my faithful loves

How good it is to meet again

I know I'm not the beauty

But I am sincerity

I still love you

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SONG MEANING

“Je T’aime Encore” feels like a heartfelt diary entry from Yelle to her first love: the French language and, by extension, her homeland. For fifteen years she has been devoted, circling around it, shouting her pride from Tokyo to Portland while feeling oddly invisible in its eyes. The verses paint a push-and-pull romance where familiarity breeds both comfort and frustration: they speak the same tongue, yet misunderstand each other; they have history, yet fear they have outgrown the magic of their early days.

Still, the chorus repeats like a mantra—je t’aime encore—reminding us that true affection survives doubt, distance, and changing times. Yelle explores the world, earns her “liberty,” and gathers new stories, but always returns to this complicated love that shapes her identity. The song is at once a confession, a pep-talk, and a playful shrug: relationships evolve, misunderstandings persist, but the core emotion remains stubbornly bright.

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