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 prefer honest people

What do you like, what do you like

I like to get the hell out

And escape in my mind

I don't know why I talk to myself

Instead of writing poems

But they would be on my scale

I don't know why I talk to myself

Why I laugh at myself

Maybe I like to laugh

I like, I like, I like solitude sometimes

The one we choose to talk to ourselves

The one that doesn't hurt and can be muted

The one we can remove like a thorn

I like, I like, I like solitude sometimes

But I don't like the screams when they don't stop

When emotions plunge me into a raging sea

When the lack of me makes me wander

What do you like, what do you like

Smile a bit foolishly

Silently write a letter

What do you like, what do you like

I like to look at the neon light

And tell myself that maybe

Someone somewhere in the world

Is thinking at the same second the same thing as me

Someone who wanders a bit for no reason

Just because it feels good to think about anything

I like, I like, I like solitude sometimes

The one we choose to talk to ourselves

The one that doesn't hurt and can be muted

The one we can remove like a thorn

I like, I like, I like solitude sometimes

But I don't like the screams when they don't stop

When emotions plunge me into a raging sea

When the lack of me makes me wander

I love silence so much and I no longer believe in time

Hard to say, it's just what I feel

And I see the past and the future intertwining

Seconds stretch out and everything happens in the present

I like, I like, I like solitude sometimes

The one we choose to talk to ourselves

The one that doesn't hurt and can be muted

The one we can remove like a thorn

I like, I like, I like solitude sometimes

But I don't like the screams when they don't stop

When emotions plunge me into a raging sea

When the lack of me makes me wander

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Lyrics © RAOUL BRETON EDITIONS

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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