Le Présent d'abord [English translation]

Look around, everything's here, everything's made for us

All the time, all the time, the short time

The time is -as always- way too short

Yesterday was yesterday, already in the past that's outdated

Yesterday doesn't have to be remade or rehashed

So there's no point in cluttering up

Let us live the present first

Let us live a stronger moment

Let us follow our desires 'of much more'

Let us live today first

Look around and in front of you

Look, it's there, there under your fingers

Take, take everything

Take, take directly1

Tomorrow will be tomorrow, tell yourself this well

That nothing is decided yet

No fate is engraved in these hands

Everything can change, anything can happen

Let us live the present first

Let us live a stronger moment

Let us follow our desires 'of much more'

Let us live today first

Let us live the present first

Yes, let us live a stronger moment

Let us follow our desires 'of much more'

But let us live today first

1. I wrote "directly" but if I translated the sentence literally, it was "take everything without detour". (I was not sure it was correct in English.)

• Artist:Florent Pagny
• Album:Le Présent d'abord (2017)