Emmenez-moi

Who it's for

Aznavour sings as a worn-out dockside worker who longs to sail off to sunnier places.

Feelings it meets

• Feeling Stuck
• Class
• Burnout

What it is

"Emmenez-moi" is a song written and performed by Charles Aznavour in 1967. Its narrator, worn down by work and boredom at the docks under grey northern skies, watches ships arrive from distant places and dreams of sailing away with the sailors to sunny lands where life seems easier.

Where to find it

All major streaming services.

Before you start

Age: All ages

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”