Hier Encore [English translation]

Yesterday still

I was 20 years old

With all my time

To play around life

And to fool around love

Living at night

Without feeling

the days passing

I had big plans

That didn't materialized

Great hopes

That are left unrealized

And now I feel lost

With nowhere to go

Looking for salvation

Without any passion

Yesterday still

I was 20 years old

I wasted my time

Thinking I could halt it

I tried to keep up

To catch up

But it was all for nothing

And now I am exhausted

Denying my past

I would always look ahead

Putting myself

Before everything

Always giving my opinion

I wanted to be right

In recklessly

Judging the world

Yesterday still

I was 20 years old

But I squandered all this time

On foolish things

And now I am left

With nothing concrete

Except a few wrinkles

And the fear of loneliness

Because my love

Was never real

And my friends

Are gone forever

It is I

That created a void around me

I ruined my life

and my youth

Of the good and bad in me,

I kept the ugly

Hence my insincere smiles

And held back tears

Where are they now

My twenties ?

• Artist:Charles Aznavour