Jacques Brel
Don’t Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas)
Please don't go away
For you must forget
All you can forget
All that's blown away
Please forget the times
We misunderstood
All the explanations
That did no good
Please forget the times
When simple why
And single breaths
Still the heart of joy
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
I will offer you all
The pearls of the rain
From a faraway plain
Where rain nеver falls
I will dig in the earth
By day and by night
To covеr your body
In golden and light
I will make you a land
Where love will be king
Where love will be law (?)
And you will be queen
Please don't go away
Please don't go away
Please don't go away
Please don't go away
Please don't go away
And I will invent
Senseless language meant
Just to make you stay
I will tell you tales
Of those lovers who
By the fire again
Of a love man's true (?)
Tell you of the King
Who you never knew
But who died alone
Wanting only you
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
When a mountain that's dead
Can awake with a start
And pour out its heart
(With) Fire so red
When a desolate waste
Grows healthier grain
Than a field that is graced
By a soft April rain
And because when the sun
Sinks down in a blaze
Red maples (?) with black
In a deepening haze
Please don't go away
Please don't go away
Please don't go away
Please don't go away
Please don't go away
I will weep no more
I will speak no more
I will hide away
Just to watch you dance
Just to see you smile
Hear you sing and laugh
For a little while
Let me be your shadow
From more than far (?)
A shadow of your hand
A shadow of your dog (?)
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't leave me