Life, to the Full (Vivre Debout, 1961)

from Sings Jacques Brel (in English) by An Amerikan Automobile Company

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Here's where I hide whenever the wind starts to rise
And blows that old sun through the skies, I cover my eyes.
Here's where I hide from every new love that tells me they love me
Just like the last one and the one before that.
Here's where I hide, here in the darkness
Where my shadow's not so big.
It's the shadow of the kisses I planted on you in my twenties.

Tell me: is it possible to live life to the full?

Here's where I kneel, I've already dropped
From the weight of this cross that I can't seem to shake off.
Here's where I kneel, surrounded by the shiver
And the shards of glass from that old broken mirror.
Here's where I kneel, all my hopes and my dreams
Have been turned into prayers
And all my prayers have gone unanswered
Because there's nobody up there.

Tell me: is it possible to live life to the full?

Here's where I lay; here in the arms of a young love
That I offered a flower and promised forever.
Here's where I lay; here's where I'll lose my mind
Being so bored by this reflection of time.
Here's where I'll lay; and my desires won't last 'till the end of the day
In this heat that the Devil's prepared because he knows I'm defeated

Tell me: is it possible to live life to the full?

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from Sings Jacques Brel (in English), released October 9, 2015

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