LEARN LYRICS

I'd have liked to travel through time

If I'd had Hiro Nakamura's power

I'd go relive Lenny and Inaya's births

I'd head to Sanaa

To boycott Yemenia's A310 take-off

I'd go see my grandpa one last time

Tell him I’m taking care of his daughter, he shouldn't worry

I'd go see Martin Luther King

After his speech, show him Barack Obama's photo

I'd be at the Harlem temple

Push Malcolm off the stage before a bullet hits him

I'd be in Mandela's cell

Tell him to hold on, his ideas will become president of South Africa

In love with Lady Diana

I'd create a giant traffic jam under the Alma bridge

I'd be in the Bahamas

Not for vacation but to empty Aaliyah's plane cargo hold

I'd have liked to travel through time

If I'd had Hiro Nakamura's power

I'd be at Muhammad Ali's fight in Kinshasa

Then I'd go celebrate my Comoros' independence

In my grandpa's arms before he died

Then a quick trip to the Paris-Dakar in the savannah

To boycott Daniel Balavoine's chopper

I love the truths told by those who wear a red nose

I'd slash the tires on Coluche's bike

I'd welcome Muhammad to Medina

Then hit the Red Sea, let Moses pass

I'd be at Mary's son's birth

Two hours later, march for salt with Gandhi

I'd sit next to Rosa Parks

Then go to Woodstock to catch Jimi Hendrix live

I'd be at Motown's birthday

To watch Michael do the moonwalk

I'd be in New York

To trigger a 7 a.m. bomb scare in the two towers

I'd be in Iraq

Teach the journalists to aim better with their shoes

I'd be in Afghanistan

Toss the cameras from Commander Massoud's last interview

I'd be in Angola

To tell Adebayor's team not to take the road

I'd be in Clichy-sous-Bois

Unplug the EDF transformer before Zyed and Bouna arrive

I'd be with Kunta Kinte or on Gorée

To give them rifles before the colonists show up

I'd go see the African riflemen

Tell them their kids are called dirty immigrants

I'd be in Austria

I'd do everything so Adolf Hitler's parents never meet

Even if I'd had Nakamura's power

What could I have done for Haiti, the tsunami or Katrina

What could I have done for Alaska

Everything nature gave us

Nature will take back

So many things I wanted to change or live

So many things I wanted to erase or relive

But all that’s impossible, friend

So I take a deep breath and blow out my 30th candle

I'd have liked to travel through time

But we can only live in the present

We can only live in the present