Love Song

It’s Friday and time for another story. Only this time I’m sharing a SONG. I have stumbled upon this beautiful old French chanson on YouTube and found equally beautiful English lyrics for it. Enjoy!

When We Have Nothing But Love
By Jacques Brel

When we have nothing but love
As the gift that we bear
Then the path that we’re walking
Is the passion we share

When we have nothing but love
Between lovers and friends
Then each day is a voyage
And the trip never ends

When we have nothing but love
As the promise we give
And our treasure is faith
Every day that we live

When we have nothing but love
To enliven our days
And to brighten the dark
In this city of grays

When we have nothing but love
As our reason and mind
And the song that we sing
And the help that we find

When we have nothing but love
To serve food to the poor
To give clothes to the naked
When they knock at the door

When we have nothing but love
That we offer in prayer
To the evil that rages
In the world everywhere

When we have nothing but love
When we answer the call
Of the people who struggle
Just to go on at all

When we have nothing but love
As our compass and guide
To discern the best path
When beset on each side

When we have nothing but love
To talk back to a gun
And we’ve only got songs
To convince war is done

So we have nothing but love
What is all this love worth?
My friends, barely nothing
Just the whole blessed earth

English Lyrics written by Rob Weinert-Kendt

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Jacques Brel (1929 - 1978.) is a Belgian singer-songwriter, chanteur. He started his singing career in French cafes. His songs, often full of sharp satire, became very popular in Europe in the 1950s.History of the chanson is inconceivable without classics such as Brel’s When we have nothing but love.