Ne Me Quitte Pas.
I had intended for the English song 'If You Go Away' to be familiarised and its lyrics to be remembered well. Did it linger in your head for the past few days?
How do you feel about the song? Any emotional outbursts?
What about the lyrics?
Did you find your life revolving around it?
Were you melancholic?
Well ... Since you have the right feelings of that song in English;
Get a feel of the FRENCH version!
The YouTube video shows Jacques Brel singing his song.
Yes ... HIS song.
Ne Me Quitte Pas
by Jacques Brel
Ne me quitte pas
Il faut oublier
Tout peut s'oublier
Qui s'enfuit déjà
Oublier le temps
Des malentendus
Et le temps perdu
A savoir comment
Oublier ces heures
Qui tuaient parfois
A coups de pourquoi
Le coeur du bonheur
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Moi je t'offrirai
Des perles de pluie
Venues de pays
Oþ il ne pleut pas
Je creuserai la terre
Jusqu'après ma mort
Pour couvrir ton corps
D'or et de lumière
Je ferai un domaine
Oþ l'amour sera roi
Oþ l'amour sera loi
Oþ tu seras reine
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Je t'inventerai
Des mots insensés
Que tu comprendras
Je te parlerai
De ces amants-là
Qui ont vu deux fois
Leurs coeurs s'embraser
Je te raconterai
L'histoire de ce roi
Mort de n'avoir pas
Pu te rencontrer
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
On a vu souvent
Rejaillir le feu
De l'ancien volcan
Qu'on croyait trop vieux
Il est para¡±t-il
Des terres brulées
Donnant plus de blé
Qu'un meilleur avril
Et quand vient le soir
Pour qu'un ciel flamboie
Le rouge et le noir
Ne s'épousent-ils pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Je ne vais plus pleurer
Je ne vais plus parler
Je me cacherai là
A te regarder
Danser et sourire
Et à t'écouter
Chanter et puis rire
Laisse-moi devenir
L'ombre de ton ombre
L'ombre de ta main
L'ombre de ton chien
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
That's an old video and the sound does not come out right.
I prefer to listen to a female voice, hence, here's Nina Simone's version of Ne Me Quitte Pas ...
Recognise the music? Remember the English lyrics?
Here's the translation of the French lyrics.
We must forget
All we can forget all we did till now
Let’s forget the cost of the breath
We’ve spent saying words unmeant
And the times we’ve lost hours that must destroy
Never knowing why everything must die at the heart of joy
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
I’ll bring back to you the pearls of rain
From a distant domain where rain never fell
And though I grow old I’ll keep mining the ground
To deck you around in gold and light
I’ll build you a domain where love’s everything
Where love is king and you are queen
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
For you I’ll invent
Words and what they meant only you will know
Tales of lovers who fell apart and then fell in love again
There’s a story too that I can confide
Of that king who died from not meeting you
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
And often it’s true that flames spill anew
From ancient volcano’s we thought were too old
When all’s said and done scorched fields of defeat
Could give us more wheat than the fine April sun
And when evening is nigh with flames overhead
The black and the red aren’t they joined in the sky
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
I will cry no more
I will talk no more hide myself
To look at you and see you dance and smile
And hear you sing and laugh
Let me be for you the shadow of your shadow
The shadow of your hand the shadow of your dog
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Subhanallah!
The French lyrics is more romantic and I tend to identify with the poet.
'For you I’ll invent
Words and what they meant only you will know
Tales of lovers who fell apart and then fell in love again
There’s a story too that I can confide
Of that king who died from not meeting you'
hmmm .... This scenario is familiar :-/
'Let me be for you the shadow of your shadow
The shadow of your hand the shadow of your dog'
Oh how deep his feelings are for this person!
Like the previous post, I dedicate these videos to
'the great pretender'
who has been secretly reading my blog.
I thank you, honestly!
;-)
By the way, today is the 2nd of March and that means, it is the 4th year that I get to know NFD, my Light of Joy.
She is no longer the NFD I knew years ago
but I still love her.
To her I'd love to say 'Ne Me Quitte Pas'
in my usual Scottish accent ... hehehe
* mmmmmuackz *
;-)
How do you feel about the song? Any emotional outbursts?
What about the lyrics?
Did you find your life revolving around it?
Were you melancholic?
Well ... Since you have the right feelings of that song in English;
Get a feel of the FRENCH version!
The YouTube video shows Jacques Brel singing his song.
Yes ... HIS song.
Ne Me Quitte Pas
by Jacques Brel
Ne me quitte pas
Il faut oublier
Tout peut s'oublier
Qui s'enfuit déjà
Oublier le temps
Des malentendus
Et le temps perdu
A savoir comment
Oublier ces heures
Qui tuaient parfois
A coups de pourquoi
Le coeur du bonheur
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Moi je t'offrirai
Des perles de pluie
Venues de pays
Oþ il ne pleut pas
Je creuserai la terre
Jusqu'après ma mort
Pour couvrir ton corps
D'or et de lumière
Je ferai un domaine
Oþ l'amour sera roi
Oþ l'amour sera loi
Oþ tu seras reine
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Je t'inventerai
Des mots insensés
Que tu comprendras
Je te parlerai
De ces amants-là
Qui ont vu deux fois
Leurs coeurs s'embraser
Je te raconterai
L'histoire de ce roi
Mort de n'avoir pas
Pu te rencontrer
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
On a vu souvent
Rejaillir le feu
De l'ancien volcan
Qu'on croyait trop vieux
Il est para¡±t-il
Des terres brulées
Donnant plus de blé
Qu'un meilleur avril
Et quand vient le soir
Pour qu'un ciel flamboie
Le rouge et le noir
Ne s'épousent-ils pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Je ne vais plus pleurer
Je ne vais plus parler
Je me cacherai là
A te regarder
Danser et sourire
Et à t'écouter
Chanter et puis rire
Laisse-moi devenir
L'ombre de ton ombre
L'ombre de ta main
L'ombre de ton chien
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
That's an old video and the sound does not come out right.
I prefer to listen to a female voice, hence, here's Nina Simone's version of Ne Me Quitte Pas ...
Recognise the music? Remember the English lyrics?
Here's the translation of the French lyrics.
We must forget
All we can forget all we did till now
Let’s forget the cost of the breath
We’ve spent saying words unmeant
And the times we’ve lost hours that must destroy
Never knowing why everything must die at the heart of joy
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
I’ll bring back to you the pearls of rain
From a distant domain where rain never fell
And though I grow old I’ll keep mining the ground
To deck you around in gold and light
I’ll build you a domain where love’s everything
Where love is king and you are queen
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
For you I’ll invent
Words and what they meant only you will know
Tales of lovers who fell apart and then fell in love again
There’s a story too that I can confide
Of that king who died from not meeting you
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
And often it’s true that flames spill anew
From ancient volcano’s we thought were too old
When all’s said and done scorched fields of defeat
Could give us more wheat than the fine April sun
And when evening is nigh with flames overhead
The black and the red aren’t they joined in the sky
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
I will cry no more
I will talk no more hide myself
To look at you and see you dance and smile
And hear you sing and laugh
Let me be for you the shadow of your shadow
The shadow of your hand the shadow of your dog
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Subhanallah!
The French lyrics is more romantic and I tend to identify with the poet.
'For you I’ll invent
Words and what they meant only you will know
Tales of lovers who fell apart and then fell in love again
There’s a story too that I can confide
Of that king who died from not meeting you'
hmmm .... This scenario is familiar :-/
'Let me be for you the shadow of your shadow
The shadow of your hand the shadow of your dog'
Oh how deep his feelings are for this person!
Like the previous post, I dedicate these videos to
'the great pretender'
who has been secretly reading my blog.
I thank you, honestly!
;-)
By the way, today is the 2nd of March and that means, it is the 4th year that I get to know NFD, my Light of Joy.
She is no longer the NFD I knew years ago
but I still love her.
To her I'd love to say 'Ne Me Quitte Pas'
in my usual Scottish accent ... hehehe
* mmmmmuackz *
;-)
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