Le cahier de solfège [English translation]

It will be yesterday years from now

We were already today suddenly

The cycling race going up the street

The shoulders of my father, it will be the beginning

For the parade I held up a club flag

I will have a puppy and I will loose my dog

The month after, a long time ago, we will laugh

It will be the holydays when it was the month of june

But what will I do of the music exercise book ?

From time to time...

I answered here when the teacher called1

I had so much sorrow, I'm drying my tears

I learned much later the sequence of tenses

It is already too late cause I'll will be a grown-up

When I was a school boy, I will be a student

But for now, it was still far away

In the music school, the one in my neighborhood

I study music theory and I had an exercise book

But what will I do of the music exercise book ?

From time to time...

When was now, a baby on my knees

He's getting sleepy our child, you'll see, between us

Last week I hope it will be sunny

I take you to the river, our six feet in the water

There will be a day, but it was in a long time

That I stumbled on by chance

On that scrawled exercise book that will be handed to me tomorrow

That music exercise book that I hold in my hands

But what will I do with all those arpeggios ?

It comes back to me...

It will be yesterday years from now

We were already today suddenly

The cycling race going up the street

The shoulders of my father, it will be the beginning

1. A pun is lost in translation here, since french students answer "présent" (present, as here in the room, opposed to absent) to a teacher calling the roll.

• Artist:Bénabar