Lyric discussion by ChildInTime 

NO comments ?!

Ok, I understand, this is an American site and most of the members are American as well probably, so they don't know the song.. (and even if you Americans would recognize the song: you guys wouldn't understand a word ! We all know that Americans only speak 1 language, their English)

I come from Belgium, and so is the singer, Jacques Brel. In Belgium they speak Dutch and French. Brel was a french speaker, I am a Dutch speaker, but I understand and speak French véry well.

In Belgium, this song is chosen to be the best song made by a Belgian, even better than 'Dominique' by the Singing Non (that number was on 1 on your billboards in the sixties, Americans !!)

It's a very tragical song, with piano and also a bit violin. 'On a vu souvent Rejaillir le feu De l'ancien volcan Qu'on croyait trop vieux' => these lines are just soo powerful ! Astounding!

O yeah; Ne me quitte pas means Don't leave me (alone).

You come across as pompous and ignorant in this post. You've assumed that just because there were no comments at the time you posted that somehow americans are all idiots and can only speak one language. What are you basing that on? You're stereotyping an entire race based on a lack of comments on a website. Who's the ignorant one here?

Good for you, you can speak more than one language. What do you want? A portion of fries?

childintime, you are an ass. In the US the most prevalent languages are English and Spanish...or a combo of the two. And since you are from Belgium one could say you speak an ass backward version of French...or at least the accent is horrible. And as an American, I can speak English, Spanish, and French. So, fous la comp

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