This song, both in English and French, has one of the best lyrics I've ever heard. Very modest. It's called "I Didn't See the Time Go By," from Charles Aznavour's Carnegie Hall DVD concert.Now as the wheel of life turns fasternow as the seasons seem to flyI see so many things at lastbut didn't see the time go byI've known delight, I've known disasterthe caviar, the humble piefrom the absurd to the sublimI didn't see the time go byI didn't see the years roll onI didn't know the road would bendrefused to see when youth was gonepretending it might never endand now, there is a price to payfor every day I threw awaySeems I've wasted half a lifetimewithin the blinking of an eyeI didn't head the midnight chimeI didn't see the time go byIn stolen nights and brief romancesI kissed the girls and made them crywhile there were balconies to climbI didn't see the time go byI was the guy with all the answersthe halfway truth, the little lieso sure, so certain in my primeI didn't see the time go byeI hit the highs, I bit the dirtI left some wreckage in my wakeI didn't see that lies can hurtI didn't know how hearts can breakand now, they come to haunt my mindthe lives I touched and left behindI've sung a hundred songs of longingof sweet regret, and hope run dryI've searched for melody and rhymebut never saw how time can flynever saw the darkening skyI was a minstrel of my timewho didn't see the time go by.