Yesterday when I was young

Just now I stubbled across Gil's blog "Yesterday when I was young." Though I have not heard of this song before, the lyrics really touches my heart to the extent that I could feel the actual sense of strong feeling of lost youth from this lyric. Thank you Gilbert. Hee..

Here is the French and English lyrics. U can see 2 movies here and i hope that those people who read my blog will heed their wakeup calls that Life is too short to mull over unnecessary sorrow and do what they ought to do with their lives! Follow Your Dream! Set your heart free and let your heart guide you to where you want to go!


This song "Yesterday When I was Young" was actually translated from French song "Hier Encore" which was sung by famous singer Charles Aznavour

-------French Lyrcis - Hier Encore----------

Hier encore, j'avais vingt ans
Je caressais le temps et jouais de la vie
Comme on joue de l'amour
Et je vivais la nuit
Sans compter sur mes jours qui fuyaient dans le temps
J'ai fait tant de projet qui sont rests en l'air
J'ai fond tant d'espoirs qui se sont envols
Que je reste perdu ne sachant ou aller
Les yeux cherchant le ciel mais le coeur mis en terre

Hier encore j'avais vingt ans
Je gaspillais le temps en croyant l'arreter
et pour le retenir, mme le devancer
Je n'ai fait que courir et me suis essouffler
Ignorant le pass, conjuguant au futur
Je precedais de moi toute conversation
et donnais mon avis que je pensais le bon
Pour critiquer le monde avec dsinvolture

Hier encore j'avais vingt ans
Mais j'ai perdu mon temps a faire des folies
Qui ne me laissent au fond rien de vraiment precis
Que quelques rides au front et la peur de l'ennui
Car mes amours sont mortes avant que d'exister
Mes amis sont partis et ne reviendront pas
Par ma faute j'ai fait le vide autour de moi
Et j'ai gach ma vie et mes jeunes annes
Du meilleur et du pire en jettant le meilleur
J'ai fig mes sourirs et j'ai glac mes peurs
Ou sont-ils a present, a present mes vingts ans?

-----English Lyrics - Yesterday When I was Young -----

Yesterday when I was young
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see how the years ran away


Yesterday when I was young
So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation I can now recall
Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all


Yesterday the moon was blue
And every crazy day brought something new to do
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
And only I am left on stage to end the play
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young