Volver [English translation]

I recall tastes of drowsiness and torment and people

It wasn't even five hours ago that I was 15 years old

But it was a bigger thing than that of a child

A flood of recollection hits me

Of an apeman and a watch-face

Of a pain in the teeth and the gentleness of not a single spring

Before

Before

I want to do everything like rich people

All while cursing them at the bottom

I recall the wilderness of my old vagrant friends

It wasn't even four hours ago that I was 20 years old

I already had the worries of an old idiot

Today, I was already in love with some trees, only for their trunks

Life doesn't love what we see in our eyes

She can make you believe by accident that there are two of them

But there's only one

Without rancor nor resentment

I remember their lovers with a dirty mind, with a dirty penis head

It was at the 45-minute mark of an hour that I was 30 years old

The arse of an orangutan

I remember the small things, a corner of the sky that turned purple

I was already of little matter

Just like a rebel without a cause

Barely two seals later I was 40 years old

Life was already less funny

The colour of love was like rotgut

Every summer on a soft hill

Life doesn't love what we see in our eyes

She can make you believe by accident that there are two of them

But there's only one

Without rancor nor resentment

Nothing

A long sigh, confused and foggy

Small tricks, falsely clever

I see my future as an old man

Like a train that's always late

It wasn't even five hours ago that I was 15 years old

Already enraged, it was already towards others

My eyes were already flushed with blood

I already had my nose turned to the sky

A few months ago

I was 15 years old

But I didn't like it.

• Artist:Benjamin Biolay
• Album:Beat Bounce