Viens on essaie – Bilingual Lyrics French/English

• By: Vitaa, Julien Doré
• Album: Charlotte

Lyrics & Translation

[French]

[English]

J'fais mon numéro

I'm putting on a show

D'habitude, j'me prends pas la tête

Normally, I don't stress out

Là c'est foutu d'avance

Now it's doomed from the start

On arrête, on commence

We stop, we start

Je sais plus ce que j'fais

I don't know what I'm doing anymore

Ça va finir par me plaire

I'm going to end up liking it

Si toi et moi on s'fait la guerre

If you and I fight

Je vais finir par le faire

I'm going to end up doing it

M'mêler de tes affaires

Meddling in your business

Oublie le tête-à-tête

Forget the face-to-face

Si je t'embête

If I bother you

Ça serait chouette ou pas

That would be nice, or not

Viens, on essaie, on essaie, ouais

Come on, let's try, let's try, yeah

À quoi bon se cacher ?

What's the point of hiding?

Tout se sait, tout se sait, ouais

Everything comes out, everything comes out, yeah

Quand on s'dit tout, y a plus d'effet, plus d'effet, non

When we tell each other everything, there's no more thrill, no more thrill, no

Je te le dirai à demi-mot

I'll tell you indirectly

Des mots et des mots

Words and words

Toi tu veux m'abîmer la tête

You want to mess with my head

Tu veux jouer, on commence

You want to play, we start

Mais les dés, je les lance

But I'm rolling the dice

Je crois que tu m'plais

I think I like you

Ça va finir par me plaire

I'm going to end up liking it

Si toi et moi on s'fait la guerre

If you and I fight

Je vais finir par le faire

I'm going to end up doing it

M'mêler de tes affaires

Meddling in your business

Oublie le tête-à-tête

Forget the face-to-face

Si je t'embête

If I bother you

Ça serait chouette ou pas

That would be nice, or not

Viens, on essaie, on essaie, ouais

Come on, let's try, let's try, yeah

À quoi bon se cacher ?

What's the point of hiding?

Tout se sait, tout se sait, ouais

Everything comes out, everything comes out, yeah

Quand on s'dit tout, y a plus d'effet, plus d'effet, non

When we tell each other everything, there's no more thrill, no more thrill, no

Je te le dirai à demi-mot

I'll tell you indirectly

Viens, on essaie, on essaie, ouais

Come on, let's try, let's try, yeah

À quoi bon se cacher ?

What's the point of hiding?

Tout se sait, tout se sait, ouais

Everything comes out, everything comes out, yeah

Quand on s'dit tout, y a plus d'effet, plus d'effet, non

When we tell each other everything, there's no more thrill, no more thrill, no

Je te le dirai à demi-mot

I'll tell you indirectly

Viens, on essaie, on essaie, ouais

Come on, let's try, let's try, yeah

À quoi bon se cacher ?

What's the point of hiding?

Tout se sait, tout se sait, ouais

Everything comes out, everything comes out, yeah

Quand on s'dit tout, y a plus d'effet, plus d'effet, non

When we tell each other everything, there's no more thrill, no more thrill, no

Je te le dirai à demi-mot

I'll tell you indirectly

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
essayer /esɛje/ A2	verb - to try, to attempt
cacher /kaʃe/ A2	verb - to hide, to conceal
tête /tɛt/ B1	noun - head, mind; in idioms: to worry excessively, one-on-one
effet /efɛ/ A2	noun - effect, impact, result
mot /mo/ B1	noun - word; in idiom: hinting, in few words
guerre /ɡɛʁ/ A2	noun - war, conflict; in idiom: to be in conflict with someone
plaire /plɛʁ/ A2	verb - to please, to be pleasing to, to like
embêter /ɑ̃bete/ B1	verb - to bother, to annoy, to trouble
chouette /ʃwɛt/ A2	adjective - nice, cool, great (informal)
foutu /futu/ B2	adjective - doomed, ruined, screwed, hopeless (informal)
mêler /mɛle/ B2	verb - to mix, to mingle; 'se mêler de' means to meddle in, to interfere with
tête-à-tête /tɛt.a.tɛt/ B1	noun - one-on-one, private conversation/meeting
dés /de/ B1	noun - dice (plural of die); in idiom: to take a chance
abîmer /abime/ B2	verb - to damage, to spoil, to ruin, to harm (mentally or physically)
numéro /nymeʁo/ B1	noun - number, act, performance; in idiom: to make a scene, to show off
avance /avɑ̃s/ B1	noun - advance, progress; 'd'avance' means in advance, beforehand
venir /vəniʁ/ A1	verb - to come
lancer /lɑ̃se/ B1	verb - to throw, to launch; 'lancer les dés' means to roll the dice, to take a chance
jouer /ʒwe/ A2	verb - to play (a game, music, a role); in context: to play a game in a relationship

Key Grammar Structures

• Je sais plus ce que j'fais

  ➔ Relative pronoun "ce que" & Negation "ne...plus"

  ➔ The contraction "j'fais" is from "je fais". "ce que" (what) is a compound relative pronoun used to refer to an unspecified thing or idea, meaning "that which" or "what". "ne...plus" (no longer/anymore), often shortened to just "plus" in informal speech (as in "sais plus" instead of "ne sais plus"), indicates that an action or state has ceased.

• Ça va finir par me plaire

  ➔ Future Proche & Verb + "par" + Infinitive & Indirect Object Pronoun

  ➔ "va finir" (is going to end) is the near future (Futur Proche), formed with "aller" + infinitive, expressing an action that will happen soon. "finir par" (to end up by/eventually) is a common verb construction that indicates the final outcome or the eventual result of a process. "me" is the indirect object pronoun for "plaire" (to please), meaning "to me".

• Si toi et moi on s'fait la guerre

  ➔ Conditional Clause (Si + Present) & Reflexive Verb & Impersonal "on"

  ➔ "Si... on s'fait" is a conditional clause of hypothesis (Type 1), where "Si" (if) is followed by the present tense, implying a real or probable condition. "on" is used informally here to mean "nous" (we). "se faire la guerre" (to wage war on each other) is an idiomatic reflexive verb phrase, indicating a reciprocal action.

• M'mêler de tes affaires

  ➔ Reflexive Verb "se mêler de" & Contraction "m'mêler"

  ➔ "m'mêler" is the contracted form of "me mêler", where "me" is the reflexive pronoun. The full phrase is "se mêler de" (to interfere with/to meddle in), which is a pronominal (reflexive) verb that requires the preposition "de" to introduce the object of interference.

• Oublie le tête-à-tête

  ➔ Imperative (Tu form)

  ➔ "Oublie" is the imperative form of the verb "oublier" (to forget) for the second person singular ("tu"). In the imperative, the subject pronoun is omitted. The noun "tête-à-tête" (literally 'head-to-head') means a private conversation or meeting between two people.

• Ça serait chouette ou pas

  ➔ Conditional Present & Impersonal "Ça"

  ➔ "serait" is the conditional present form of "être" (to be), used to express a hypothesis, a possibility, or a polite suggestion. "Ça" is an informal contraction of "cela" (that/it), functioning as an impersonal subject pronoun here, referring to an unspecified situation or idea. The phrase "chouette ou pas" means "great or not" or "nice or not" and is an informal way to ask for an opinion.

• Viens, on essaie, on essaie, ouais

  ➔ Imperative & Impersonal "on"

  ➔ "Viens" is the imperative form of "venir" (to come) for the "tu" form, used as a direct command or invitation. "on essaie" uses the impersonal pronoun "on", which informally replaces "nous" (we) in everyday spoken French, making the suggestion more inclusive and less formal.

• À quoi bon se cacher ?

  ➔ Idiomatic Expression "À quoi bon" & Reflexive Verb

  ➔ "À quoi bon" (What's the point of...?) is a common interrogative idiom expressing futility or lack of purpose. It is always followed by an infinitive. "se cacher" (to hide oneself) is a reflexive verb, indicating that the action is performed by the subject upon itself.

• Tout se sait, tout se sait, ouais

  ➔ Passive Voice with "se" (Pronominal Passive)

  ➔ "se sait" is an example of the pronominal passive (also known as the reflexive passive or passive with "se"). It conveys a passive meaning, similar to "everything is known", without explicitly stating the agent. It emphasizes that the action (knowing) happens generally or to "tout" (everything).

• Quand on s'dit tout, y a plus d'effet, plus d'effet, non

  ➔ Temporal Conjunction "Quand" & Impersonal "il y a" & Negation "ne...plus"

  ➔ "Quand" (when) introduces a temporal clause, indicating the time an action occurs. "on s'dit tout" uses the impersonal "on" (informally meaning "we") with the reflexive verb "se dire" (to tell each other). "y a" is the informal contraction of "il y a" (there is/are), an impersonal expression. "plus d'effet" (no more effect) uses the negation "ne...plus" (no longer/anymore), often with "ne" omitted in spoken French.

• Je te le dirai à demi-mot

  ➔ Double Object Pronouns & Future Simple

  ➔ "te" (to you) is an indirect object pronoun and "le" (it) is a direct object pronoun. In French, when both object pronouns are present, the indirect object pronoun usually precedes the direct object pronoun (except for "lui/leur"). They both precede the verb "dirai" (will say), which is conjugated in the simple future tense, expressing a future action.