Listen to this when
Hier encore
When you realize how fast the years went ⏳
Who it's for
Aznavour sings as an older man looking back on a youth he spent carelessly and the years that slipped away.
Regretful about lost time→Clear-eyed reflection
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Hier encore" is a 1964 song written by Charles Aznavour with music by Georges Garvarentz. The narrator, now older, looks back on youthful years spent chasing pleasure and reflects that the plans he made can no longer all be fulfilled, so the song becomes a reckoning with time and regret. Herbert Kretzmer's English adaptation, "Yesterday, When I Was Young," became a hit for Roy Clark in 1969.
Where to find it
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Before you start
Age: All ages
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
