All my life I memorize their faces
Knowing them as they will never know me
All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day
Not above them...
But part of them...
And out there,
Living in the sun
Give me one day out there
All I ask is one,
To hold forever
Out there,
Where they all live unaware
What I'd give...
What I'd dare...
Just to live
One day out there!
Out there among the millers
And the weavers and their wives
Through the roofs and gables I can see them
Everyday they shout and scold and go about their lives
Heedless of the gift it is to be them
If I was in their skin,
I'd treasure every instant
Out there
Strolling by the seine
Taste a morning out there
Like ordinary men
Who freely walk
About there
Just one day
And then I swear
I'll be content
With my share
Won't resent
Won't despair
Old and bent
I won't care
I'll have spent
One day out there!