Voir Un Ami Pleurer Lyrics English translation

Of course there are the wars in Ireland
and the peoples without music
Of course this all lacks tenderness
and there is no more America
Of course money has no smell
but no smell gets up your nose
of course we walk over flowers
but but to see a friend cry

Of course there are our defeats
and then death at the very end
The body already lowers the head
surprised to be still standing
Of course the unfaithful women
and the slaughtered birds
Of course our hearts lose their wings
but but to see a friend cry

Of course the towns exhaustedJacques Brel - Voir Un Ami Pleurer - http://motolyrics.com/jacques-brel/voir-un-ami-pleurer-lyrics-english-translation.html
by these fifty year old children
Our impotence to help them
and our loves with toothache
Of course time goes too swiftly
these undergrounds full of the drowned
the truth that escapes us
but but to see a friend cry

Of course our mirrors are intact
neither the courage to be jewish
nor the elegance to be black
we think we're the wick, we're but the wax
And all these men who are our brothers
so much that we're no longer surprised
when by love they lacerate us
but but to see a friend cry