J'aime J'aime Lyrics in English ZAZ

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song J'aime J'aime by ZAZ from French to English.

What do you like, what do you like

I don't know, it depends

I mostly like honest people

What do you like, what do you like

I like to f*ck off

And slip away inside my head

I don't know why I talk to myself

Instead of writing poems

But they'd still be on my scale

I don't know why I keep talking alone

Why I laugh in my own face

Maybe I just like to laugh

I like, I like, I sometimes love being alone

The kind you choose to chat with yourself

The kind that doesn't hurt and you can mute

The kind you can pull out like a thorn

I like, I like, I sometimes love being alone

But I hate screams when they won't stop

When emotions throw me into a raging sea

When missing myself makes me drift

What do you like, what do you like

Smiling a bit stupidly

Silently writing a letter

What do you like, what do you like

I love staring at the neon

And telling myself maybe

Someone somewhere at the end of the world

Is thinking at the same second about the same thing as me

Someone who rambles a bit for nothing

Just because it feels good to think about anything

I like, I like, I sometimes love being alone

The kind you choose to chat with yourself

The kind that doesn't hurt and you can mute

The kind you can pull out like a thorn

I like, I like, I sometimes love being alone

But I hate screams when they won't stop

When emotions throw me into a raging sea

When missing myself makes me drift

I love silence so much and I don't trust time anymore

Hard to say, it's just what I feel

And I see the past and the future getting tangled

Seconds stretch and everything plays out in the present

I like, I like, I sometimes love being alone

The kind you choose to chat with yourself

The kind that doesn't hurt and you can mute

The kind you can pull out like a thorn

I like, I like, I sometimes love being alone

But I hate screams when they won't stop

When emotions throw me into a raging sea

When missing myself makes me drift

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CHARLES AZNAVOUR, PIERRE ROCHE

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J’aime J’aime feels like a candid conversation in front of a mirror. ZAZ keeps asking herself “Qu’est-ce que t’aimes ?” and fires back a joyful inventory of little delights: honest people, silly smiles, neon lights, the freedom to bolt out the door and dive into daydreams. The melody skips along with her wandering thoughts, so you can almost picture her scribbling half-poems, cracking jokes to herself, and wondering if someone on the other side of the planet is thinking the exact same random thing.

Beneath the playfulness, the song spins a tender reflection on solitude. ZAZ celebrates the kind you choose—the quiet space where you chat with your own mind, turn the volume down on the world, and pull loneliness out “like a thorn.” Yet she also admits the flipside: the howling noise of emotions, the raging sea of self-doubt when you lose touch with who you are. By the final chorus, time blurs, past and future tangle, and only the present heartbeat matters. It is an ode to knowing yourself, loving your own company, and learning when to step back into the light with everyone else.

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