Où mènent ces routes devant moi ? [English translation]

Where do all these roads before me lead ?

Where do these trains I don't take go to ?

The departing ships leave me there on the quay..

I'm starting to get tired , it's true.

I have worn out my soul and my shoes

On every schoolboy's pathway to school,

Here, by a fountain, I'm sitting for a while,

I want to contemplate how time flies.

Have my former friends now gone so far ?

I can still hear their voices n' guitars..

Where are all those who lent me a hand

to carry me me farther on the road ?

to help me live my life by dreaming,

I have followed the sun and the wind

never mixing a drop of water with my wine.

Every day was made a feast of mine..

Where is the woman I've waited for ?

that I thought I'd found but that I lost..

Where is this woman for whom I could stand up

to walk with her to countries afar ?

Yet, here I am, subdued, sitting still,

A foreigner among foreigners,

With my rootless body warmed up by the sun,

And the windrose slowly has wilted..

Where do all these roads before me lead ?

Where do these trains I don't take go to ?

The departing ships leave me there on the quay..

I'm starting to get tired , it's true.

Dam dam dam dam.

Where do all these roads before me lead ?

Where do these trains I don't take go to ?

The departing ships leave me there on the quay..

I'm starting to get tired , it's true.

• Artist:Georges Moustaki