Lyrics by: Rod McKuen
Music by: Jacques Brel
Arranged By: Don Costa
From the Album: My Way
Recorded: February 20, 1969
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If you go away on this summer
day,
Then you might as well take the
sun away;
All the birds that flew in the
summer sky,
When our love was new and our
hearts were high;
When the day was young and the
night was long,
And the moon stood still for the
night bird's song.
If you go away, if you go away,
if you go away.
But if you stay, I'll make you a
day
Like no day has been, or will be
again;
We'll sail the sun, we'll ride
on the rain,
We'll talk to the trees and
worship the wind.
Then if you go, I'll understand,
Leave me just enough love to
fill up my hand,
If you go away, if you go away,
if you go away.
If you go, as I know you will,
you must tell the world to stop turning
Till you return again, if you
ever do, for what good is love without loving you,
Can I tell you now, as you turn
to go, I'll be dying slowly till the next hello,
If you go away, if you go away,
if you go away.
But if you stay, I'll make you a
night
Like no night has been, or will
be again.
I'll sail on your smile, I'll
ride on your touch,
I'll talk to your eyes that I
love so much.
But if you go, go, I won't cry,
Though the good is gone from the
word goodbye,
If you go away, if you go away,
if you go away.
If you go away, as I know you
must,
There'll be nothing left in the
world to trust,
Just an empty room, full of
empty space,
Like the empty look I see on
your face.
I'd have been the shadow of your
shadow
If I thought it might have kept
me by your side.
If you go away, if you go away,
if you go away.