I Have Lived
French & Italian Titles: J'ai Vécu; Ho Vissuto
Composer(s): Charles Aznavour; Hirshhorn
Performer(s): Charles Aznavour



When I take a one-way ticket to the road of no return
on a journey every man must make some day
When it's time to meet the Father
and explains my sins away
I will tell him, yes I'll tell him I have lived

I have lived each single moment as a man of flesh and blood
with my soul and all my senses open wide
I have lived and tasted everything that called out to be tried 
and afraid of either heaven or of hell
never caring if I had a soul to sell

I was no more optimistic than my fellow man would be
I have always been an artist, not a saint
Now  the moonlights are dimming
no more costumes, no more paint
I admit that I was selfish, I have lived

I have lived a life of running, after joy and happiness
with a new dream always tearing at my heart
Oh my Lord, I should have thought of my salvation at the start
but on Earth so many mornings I was told
you would take a sinner back into the fall

If my reasons seem too fragile and my words have no effect 
and forgiveness is the one thing I must win
I'll explain my live and show you all I am and all I've been 
and I'll say for my defence that I have lived

I have lived with soul on fire, with desire in my skin
in the name of all the women I have known
I have worshipped every shrine of love and if I must at all
I'll be ready then to kneel and pay the price
for the yesterdays I spent in Paradise

I have lived my life