I hereby decree

Short thoughts by David LeMieux

 



From the YouTube description: "Early performance of Brel's most often covered song, known in English by Rod McKuen's adaptation "If You Go Away." English subtitles are a literal translation of the lyric as Brel intended it. Not a love song, Brel tells us, but a song of lacheté, weakness, though most would disagree."

 

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