Femme est la nuit [English translation]

Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah

The lights that flicker out here

light up in the night.

I already seem to hear them

like a heart that beats.

Ah ah ah ah

No sooner has the celebration ended

in the rhythm of the night,

than in each sound,

in each footstep,

I am back—

me.

Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah

Night is woman, the night

is a woman, the night

with its tears and its joys,

life is like that.

It is a woman, the night

that loves as much as it forgets

and that loses every time.

I am like that, I think.

Ah ah ah ah

The smallest of its sighs

has something to say:

love for which one does not wait

or even that disappears.

Ah ah ah ah

With these four notes,

we will meet again

to sing together

like a heart that beats.

Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah

Night is woman, the night

is a woman, the night

with its tears and its joys,

life is like that.

It is a woman, the night

that loves as much as it forgets

and that loses every time.

I am like that, I think.

Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah...