"Je te rends ton amour" (English: "I'm Giving You Your Love Back") is a 1999 song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer.

The song became another top 10 hit in France for Farmer, and its controversial music video gained considerable attention at the time, being censored by several television channels.

After the release of "L'Âme-stram-gram", rumours announced "Dessine-moi un mouton" as second single from Innamoramento, with a video inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince, featuring the crash of an airplane.

[1] This song, whose music was composed by Laurent Boutonnat primarily for Nathalie Cardone,[2] enabled the album to remain in the top of the charts during the 1999 summer.

Shot for two days in the Notre-Dame-du-Val abbey of Mériel (Val-d'Oise, France), this Requiem Publishing and Stuffed Monkey production cost about 100,000 euros.

The Devil, meanwhile, plunges his fingers with long nails into the holy water font, extinguishes the candles and knocks down chairs, then moves to the other side of the confessional.

Having had a bath in it, she leaves her alliance ring suggestively in the same pool of blood, and finally she exits the church in a black dress and with her vision restored.

[11][12] The video caused considerable controversy in France, due to its scenes of nudity and blood, and of its apparent criticism of Christianity and the Church.

[16] In response to this censorship, Farmer asked Hanss to cut the shocking scenes for the airing on television and decided to release the video in its full version as a VHS with a booklet of unpublished photos by Claude Gassian.

Il se trouve que j'aborde des sujets qui sont peut-être un peu épineux voire tabous.

C'est un risque... Maintenant, la censure, spécialement en France est un peu sévère et s'attaque à tout et n'importe quel sujet ce que je trouve vraiment regrettable.

According to some, "Je te rends ton amour" is one of Farmer's music videos which uses a lot of symbolisms, "bringing together aestheticism, shock images and deep themes".

Mylène Farmer sang "Je te rends ton amour" in two television shows:[18][20] First, in La Fureur du parc (in playback) on 19 June.

Second, the song was performed during the 2009 tours: Farmer wore an asymmetrical business suit composed of a white tutu underneath, and the stage was covered with red light.

[23] The song was selected for inclusion in the track listing of 2006 concerts Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy; it had even been sung during the rehearsals, but was finally rejected.

She mentions Krueger, a reference to the main antagonist from the Nightmare on Elm Street horror film series which has sleep deprivation as a central theme.