Le Temps [English translation]

[Refrain : Abou Tall & Dadju]

I am tired

Of seeing that time has erased nothing

What should I do to redeem myself?

Of all the errors

That time, time, time will not erase.

[Couplet 1 : Abou Tall]

I am not certain that I love myself

I am even convinced

Of the difficulty of asking for forgiveness

So I find excuses for myself

And I try to think of the happiness of old

And often, I remember that I remember more

I've seen leave from my life and that erases you

Time and resentment only drive us apart

Time will erase nothing and will not appease me

If my mother dies with grudges against me

Nothing changes

Neither failures, nor errors, I fear them all the same

As if it were like it was before

A stone as a heart

A laugh by way of crying

And conscience elsewhere [or?] here

Nothing changes

And this, despite the seconds and the hours

Alone in the world and according to the trials

One never looks at success like one sees our defeats

Time does not erase our regrets; it takes [it] with us

[Refrain : Abou Tall & Dadju]

[Couplet 2 : Dadju]

Run after time to camouflage my faults

One sees not time that has passed, but time passes on to something else

It's exhausting to be a man, prisoner of these thoughts

I want to be a man who stops thinking about it

Return to zero, is only but a mirage

In learning of my faults, I become wiser

I plan out more my future, my lifetime is falsified

Do these tears clean broken hearts?

I move forward

I don't promise yesterday, but I advance in the perspective of doing better than yesterday

I move forward

Time will remain neutral between the crib and the cemetery

Whatever happens, I move forward

Time saw us become born, grow up

We will die accepting the wrongdoings of a lifetime

[Refrain : Abou Tall & Dadju]