Hier Encore [English translation]

Only yesterday

I was twenty years old

I caressed time

I enjoyed life

Like one savours love

And I lived for the night

Without counting my days

That were wasting away with time

I've made so many plans

That never came to life

I've build on so many hopes

That withered away

I will stay lost

Not knowing where to go

The eyes are searching the sky

But the heart is tied to the ground

Only yesterday

I was twenty years old

I've wasted the time

Thinking I could make it stop

And in order to retain it

Or even get ahead of it

I did nothing but to run

And I ran out of breath

Ignoring the past

Conjugating only in the future tense

I preceded

Every conversation

And I spoke my mind

I only wanted to do good

By criticizing the world

With insolence

Only yesterday

I was twenty years old

But I've wasted my time

By doing foolish things

That let me take off

Nothing specific

Except for some wrinkles on my forehead

And fear of boredom

All my romances are dead

Before they even existed

My friends have left

And won't come back

Through my fault

I've build an empty space around me

I've wasted my life

And my youthful days

The best and the worst

By throwing away the best

I let my smiles go stiff

And benumed my fears

Where are they now

At this moment my twenty years

• Artist:Charles Aznavour