If You Go (Ne Me Quitte Pas)

Don’t leave me

We must forget

Everything can be forgotten

Which is already past

Forget the times

Of misunderstandings

And the lost time

To know how

To forget those moments

Which sometimes killed

- with constant ‘whys’ –

The heart of happiness

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

I will give you

Pearls of rain

Which have come from countries

Where it doesn’t rain

I will keep digging the earth

Until after my death

To cover your body

With gold and light

I will make a domain

Where love will be king

Where love will be law

Where love will be queen

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

I will invent for you

Crazy words

That you will understand

I will talk to you

Of those lovers

Who have twice seen

Their hearts set ablaze

I will tell you

The story of the king

Dead from not having

Been able to meet you

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

We have often seen

Spurt forth

The fire of an ancient volcano

That one thought too old

It appears that

Burnt earth

Gives more wheat

Than the best April

And when the evening comes

So that the sky blazes

Red and black

Don’t they become one?

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

I’m not going to cry any more

I’m not going to talk any more

I will hide there

Watching you

Dance and smile

Listening to you

Sing and then laugh

Let me become

The shadow of your shadow

The shadow of your hand

The dog at your command

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me