"Tu ne m'as pas laissé le temps" is a 1999 song recorded by French artist David Hallyday.

The song brings emotion "on a spontaneous mode which uses its most forceful sentences from the universe of the children : constructions inspired by the spoken language which break the semantic rules, idealistic oaths as much as solemn".

The music seems to express both nostalgy and regrets, created by the guitar in the introduction and the violins in the refrains.

[2] In 2006, the song was covered by Chimène Badi, Liane Foly, Maurane and Yannick Noah.

[3] In France, the song went to number eight on the SNEP singles chart, on 5 June 1999, three days after its release.