Hier Encore [English translation]

English

Only Yesterday

Only yesterday, I was twenty years old

I caressed time and I enjoyed life

Like one savors love

And I lived for the night

Without counting my days that were fleeting with time

I've made so many plans that never came to life

I've build on so many hopes that withered away

That I remain lost not knowing where to go

My eyes seeking heaven but my heart entombed

Only yesterday I was twenty years old

I wasted time thinking I could make it stop

And in order to retain it, or even get ahead of it

I did nothing but run and I ran out of breath

Ignoring the past, conjugating only in the future tense

I preceded with ‘I’ every conversation

And I spoke my mind saying I only wanted to do good

So as to criticize the world with insolence

Only yesterday I was twenty years old

But I've wasted my time by doing foolish things

That in the end leave me nothing, nothing really specific

Except for some wrinkles on my forehead & fear of boredom

For all my romances are dead before they even existed

My friends have left and will not return

Through my fault I've build an empty space around me

And I've wasted my life and my young years

The best and the worst by throwing away the best

I let my smiles go stiff, numbed my fears

Where are they now at present my twenty years?

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REFERENCES

DUO: ELTON JOHN & CHARLES AZNAVOUR- Hier Encore (2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOhVQA632gY&feature=related

SOLO: CHARLES AZNAVOUR- Hier Encore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZmx3KBwfY&feature=related