If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas) .......
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
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"If you go away " yaitu lagu dalam bahasa Inggris menurut lagu Prancis "Ne me quitte pas" (1959), yang ditulis oleh Jacques Brel. Lirik dalam bahasa Inggris ditulis oleh Rod McKuen untuk untuk menterjemahkan maksud dari karya Brel's yang berbahasa Perancis. Dan ternyata benar, lagu tersebut lebih populer diseluruh dunia dan dianggap sebagai standar pop dunia.
"If you go away" dinyanyikan oleh lebih dari 200 penyanyi kelas dunia, sebut saja, Tom Jones yang merilis ulang pada tahun 1968.
Frank Sinatra, Greta Keller, Brenda Lee, Violetta Villas, Shirley Bassey., Daliah Lavi, Marc Almond, Emiliana Torrini, Neil Diamond, Scott Walker, Farhad Mehrad, Dusty Springfield, Julio Iglesias, Madonna bahkan Cyndi Lauper membawakannya ke dalam versi rocknya.
Pada dasarnya lagu murung nan penuh keinginan melalui lirik mendayu wacana perspektif sebuah perasaan gundah dimana kekasih harus pergi, sungguh berat, tapi harus diterima kenyataan itu, If you go away ….
Sungguh tidak ada yang tersisa di dunia ini akan sebuah keyakinan, "there'll be nothing left in the world to trust”, seandainya kamu tetap disini, "I'll make you a day / Like no day has been, or will be again"
Aaaah begitu hiperbol memang…. Tapi inilah sebuah perasaan yang diwujudkan dalam sebuah lirik lagu sederhana tapi sangat dalam.
Rasanya ingin terus mengupas nuansa dari "If you go away" tapi sangat sulit mendeskripsikan ke dalam kata-kata.
Sebagian dari penyanyi dunia yang melantunkan (cover version)
• In 1964, Marlene Dietrich
• In 1964, Marlene Dietrich
• In 1965, Nina Simone
• In 1967, The Seekers on Seen in Green.
• In 1966, singer Damita Jo
• Shirley Bassey in 1967, on her album And We Were Lovers..
• Jack Jones on his album, Lady, in 1967.
• Lana Cantrell did a version in In 1967,
• singer Dusty Springfield in 2000 on her album The Look of Love..
• Tom Jones in1968 Decca on hit album Help Yourself.
• Country singer Glen Campbell on his 1968 album Wichita Lineman.• Brenda Lee in Nashville in 1968 on her album Johnny One Time.
• Frank Sinatra performed a version on his 1969 album My Way.
• Neil Diamond on his 1971 album Stones.
• Scott Walker, on his 1969 album Scott 3..
• Sugiman Jahuri, a Singapore Malay in the early 1970s.
• In 1974, Terry Jacks,
• Nana Mouskouri in her 1974 album Nana's Book of Songs.
• The jazz singer Helen Merrill in her 1989 album Collaboration
• Julio Iglesias on his 1990 album Starry Night.
• Patricia Kaas's in 2002
• Cyndi Lauper's 2003
• Madonna’s cover was recorded in 2004. Dan masih banyak lagi.
Klip versi Julio iglesias - mahluk penuh pesona
(untuk menikmati klip ini, tolong "pause / stop" dulu music player sebelah kiri)
Ini liriknya, versi Shirley Bassey - If You Go Away (Ne me Quitte Pas)
If you go away, on this summers day
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 birds' 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 hold in my hand
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away
If you go away, 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 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, please don't go away
untuk mp3-nya
James Last's cover version,
Dusty Springfield,
My heart skipped a beat whenever you're around
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