ENCORE UNE NUIT – Bilingual Lyrics French/English

• By: Hamza
• Album: MANIA

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the emotive world of French-language hip-hop with Hamza's "ENCORE UNE NUIT." This song offers a great opportunity to learn conversational French phrases related to feelings and introspection. The track is special for its raw honesty and the smooth, melodic flow that makes the lyrics both impactful and memorable, providing a unique and engaging way to experience the language.

[English]

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh, ooh Another restless night, these thoughts come back to haunt me

For you, I'll ruin my health, I'll never let you down, no

I've spent my life hiding, from those who want to see me fall

My heart is within your reach, the day I think of settling down, yeah Badman, I'm not afraid to fall

Badman, I don't need to brag

I'll end up on the wrong side of history again

Because it's always the same ones who tell it

Pass the bottle, the ganja and the pills (The pills)

Forget that bitch, she's been around town (Around town)

Don't talk from under a rock, yeah

You're never sincere and it makes me sick, yeah Psycho, yeah, psycho

The sound is heavy like the weight on my back

I've got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain't one, yeah

Psycho, yeah, psycho

The sound is heavy like the weight on my back

I've got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain't one, yeah Another restless night, these thoughts come back to haunt me

For you, I'll ruin my health, I'll never let you down, no

I've spent my life hiding, from those who want to see me fall

My heart is within your reach, the day I think of settling down, yeah

Badman, my hands are made for counting

Big dawg, impossible to tame me

Your lies, I see them in your eyes, yeah

I believe in God because even the devil believes in God, yeah (Yeah, yeah)

There was no one for me before I popped off

There was no one for you before I popped off, yeah, murda

As fast as you rose up, you can come down in the same elevator

Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop

A photo, a location, we'll do it for you in fifteen minutes

May God preserve me from becoming a try-hard

We leave just before it spills over

Woah, woah-woah, woah, woah-woah

A photo, a location, we'll do it for you in fifteen minutes

May God preserve me from becoming a try-hard (Yeah, yeah)

We leave just before it spills over (Yeah, yeah) Another restless night, these thoughts come back to haunt me

For you, I'll ruin my health, I'll never let you down, no

I've spent my life hiding, from those who want to see me fall (Yeah)

My heart is within your reach, the day I think of settling down, yeah

Another restless night, these thoughts come back to haunt me (Yeah)

For you, I'll ruin my health, I'll never let you down, no (Yeah)

I've spent my life hiding, from those who want to see me fall (Yeah)

My heart is within your reach, the day I think of settling down, yeah Oh

[French]

Ouh-ouh, ouh-ouh

Ouh, ouh Encore une nuit mouvementée, ces pensées reviennent me hanter

Pour toi, j'me nique la santé, j'te laisserai jamais tomber, non

J'ai passé ma vie à m'planquer, de ceux qui veulent m'voir sombrer

Mon cœur est à ta portée, le jour où j'pense à m'ranger, yeah Badman, je n'ai pas peur de tomber

Badman, je n'ai pas besoin de bomber

J'vais encore finir du mauvais côté d'l'histoire

Car c'est toujours les mêmes qui la racontent

Passe la 'teille, la ganja et les pills (Les pills)

Oublie cette bitch, elle a tourné dans la ville (La ville)

Parle as-p en dessous d'une brique, yeah

T'es jamais sincère et ça me rend sick, yeah Psycho, yeah, psycho

Le son est lourd comme le poids qu'j'ai sur le dos

J'ai quatre-vingt-dix-neuf problèmes mais une salope n'en sera jamais un, yeah

Psycho, yeah, psycho

Le son est lourd comme le poids qu'j'ai sur le dos

J'ai quatre-vingt-dix-neuf problèmes mais une salope n'en sera jamais un, yeah Encore une nuit mouvementée, ces pensées reviennent me hanter

Pour toi, j'me nique la santé, j'te laisserai jamais tomber, non

J'ai passé ma vie à m'planquer, de ceux qui veulent m'voir sombrer

Mon cœur est à ta portée, le jour où j'pense à m'ranger, yeah

Badman, j'ai les mains faites pour compter

Big dawg, impossible d'me dompter

Tes mensonges, j'les vois dans tes yeux, yeah

J'crois en Dieu car même le diable croit en Dieu, yeah (Yeah, yeah)

Y avait personne pour moi avant qu'je pop

Y avait personne pour toi avant qu'je pop, yeah, murda

Aussi vite que t'es monté, tu peux redescendre dans le même ascenseur

Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop

Une photo, une location, on t'fait ça dans un quart d'heure

Que Dieu m'préserve de devenir un forceur

On met les voiles juste avant qu'ça déborde

Woah, woah-woah, woah, woah-woah

Une photo, une location, on t’fait ça dans un quart d'heure

Que Dieu m'préserve de devenir un forceur (Yeah, yeah)

On met les voiles juste avant qu'ça déborde (Yeah, yeah) Encore une nuit mouvementée, ces pensées reviennent me hanter

Pour toi, j'me nique la santé, j'te laisserai jamais tomber, non

J'ai passé ma vie à m'planquer, de ceux qui veulent m'voir sombrer (Yeah)

Mon cœur est à ta portée, le jour où j'pense à m'ranger, yeah

Encore une nuit mouvementée, ces pensées reviennent me hanter (Yeah)

Pour toi, j'me nique la santé, j'te laisserai jamais tomber, non (Yeah)

J'ai passé ma vie à m'planquer, de ceux qui veulent m'voir sombrer (Yeah)

Mon cœur est à ta portée, le jour où j'pense à m'ranger, yeah Oh

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
hanter /ɑ̃.te/ B2	verb - to haunt; to obsess (e.g., thoughts, memories)
mouvementé /muv.mɑ̃.te/ B2	adjective - eventful, turbulent, agitated
se planquer /sə plɑ̃.ke/ B2	verb (pronominal) - to hide oneself, to lie low (informal)
sombrer /sɔ̃.bʁe/ B2	verb - to sink; to collapse; to fall (into a state, e.g., despair, darkness)
santé /sɑ̃.te/ A2	noun - health
niquer /ni.ke/ C1	verb - to screw up, to ruin, to harm (vulgar slang); to fuck (vulgar slang)
portée /pɔʁ.te/ B1	noun - reach, scope, range; litter (of animals)
se ranger /sə ʁɑ̃.ʒe/ B2	verb (pronominal) - to settle down, to get one's life in order (idiomatic)
pilule /pi.lyl/ B1	noun - pill, tablet
ganja /ɡɑ̃.ʒa/ C1	noun - ganja, cannabis, marijuana (slang)
sincère /sɛ̃.sɛʁ/ B1	adjective - sincere, genuine, honest
poids /pwa/ B1	noun - weight; burden (figurative)
salope /sa.lɔp/ C2	noun (derogatory) - bitch, slut, whore (vulgar, highly offensive)
dompter /dɔ̃.te/ B2	verb - to tame, to master, to subdue
mensonge /mɑ̃.sɔ̃ʒ/ B1	noun - lie, falsehood
ascenseur /a.sɑ̃.sœʁ/ B1	noun - elevator, lift
forceur /fɔʁ.sœʁ/ C1	noun (colloquial) - pushy person, try-hard, someone who overdoes it (slang)
déborder /de.bɔʁ.de/ B2	verb - to overflow; to exceed; to be overwhelmed (figurative)
psycho /psi.ko/ C1	adjective - psycho (informal for psychotic, psychopathic) noun - psycho (informal for psychopath, psychotic person)

Key Grammar Structures

• J'te laisserai jamais tomber, non

  ➔ Futur simple, negation 'ne... jamais', verb 'laisser' + infinitive

  ➔ The "Futur simple" ("laisserai") indicates a future action. The negation "ne... jamais" expresses "never". The construction "laisser + infinitive" means "to let someone do something". Here, "tomber" is the infinitive, meaning "to fall" or "to give up".

• J'ai passé ma vie à m'planquer

  ➔ Idiomatic construction 'passer + time/life + à + infinitive'

  ➔ The idiom "passer [du temps/sa vie] à faire quelque chose" means "to spend [time/one's life] doing something". It uses the preposition "à" followed by an infinitive. "Se planquer" is a colloquial verb meaning "to hide oneself".

• le jour où j'pense à m'ranger

  ➔ Relative pronoun 'où' for time, verb 'penser à' + infinitive

  ➔ The relative pronoun "où" can refer to a place or a time. Here, "le jour où" means "the day when". "Penser à + infinitive" means "to think about doing something" or "to intend to do something". "Se ranger" means "to settle down" or "to become law-abiding/responsible".

• J'vais encore finir du mauvais côté d'l'histoire

  ➔ Futur proche ('aller' + infinitive)

  ➔ The "futur proche" (near future) is formed with the present tense of "aller" (to go) followed by an infinitive. It expresses an action that is going to happen soon or is certain to happen. Here, "je vais finir" means "I am going to end up" or "I will eventually find myself".

• Car c'est toujours les mêmes qui la racontent

  ➔ Cleft sentence ('C'est... qui...'), demonstrative pronoun 'les mêmes'

  ➔ The "c'est... qui..." construction (cleft sentence) is used to emphasize a specific part of a sentence. "Les mêmes" is a demonstrative pronoun meaning "the same ones". Here, it emphasizes that it's always the same people who tell the story.

• ça me rend sick

  ➔ Verb 'rendre' + adjective (causative)

  ➔ The verb "rendre" can mean "to make" or "to render" in a causative sense, followed by an adjective or an attribute. It indicates that something causes a state or a feeling. "Sick" is an English word used here colloquially in French to mean 'fed up' or 'annoyed'.

• une salope n'en sera jamais un

  ➔ Pronoun 'en' (replacement of a complement introduced by 'de'), negation 'ne... jamais', futur simple

  ➔ The pronoun "en" replaces a complement introduced by "de" (often quantities or concepts). Here, it replaces "de problèmes" (of problems), referring to the "quatre-vingt-dix-neuf problèmes" mentioned earlier. "Ne... jamais" means "never". The full phrase implies 'a bitch will never be one [of my problems]'.

• Y avait personne pour moi avant qu'je pop

  ➔ Conjunctive locution 'avant que' + Subjonctif

  ➔ The conjunction "avant que" (before) always requires the subjunctive mood in the following clause because it expresses an action that has not yet occurred or is hypothetical at the moment of the main verb. "Pop" is colloquial for "become famous" or "succeed".

• Que Dieu m'préserve de devenir un forceur

  ➔ Exclamation/wish with 'Que' + Subjonctif, verb 'préserver de' + infinitive

  ➔ The structure "Que + subject + verb in subjunctive" is used to express a wish, an order, or an exclamation. Here, it conveys a strong wish or prayer ("May God preserve me"). "Préserver de + infinitive" means "to protect from doing something". A "forceur" is someone who insists too much or forces things.

• j'ai les mains faites pour compter

  ➔ 'Avoir + noun + past participle' (with passive/adjectival sense) + 'pour' + infinitive (purpose)

  ➔ This construction uses a past participle ("faites") functioning as an adjective, indicating a characteristic or purpose. It's similar to a passive voice, implying "my hands *are made* for counting." "Pour + infinitive" expresses purpose, often indicating suitability or a natural aptitude.