2023-10-11 09:40:28
The song Orly, by Jacques Brel, had not revealed all its secrets. A new acoustic version has just been unveiled to mark the 45th anniversary of the singer’s death.
“Life gives no gifts,” sings Brel in Orly. And yet, his fans receive a very nice one, when a new acoustic version of the song is revealed. This version, never heard, appeared on the original multitrack tapes.
This song, released in 1977, a year before Jacques Brel’s death, appeared on his last album Les Marquises. It was published on the B side of a 45 rpm with Les Remparts de Varsovie on the A side.
This song is about a heartbreaking scene, that of a couple who separate at Orly airport. He is getting ready to take a plane, while she remains on the ground.
“All embedded as they are, they no longer hear anything/Only the sobs of the other,” sings Brel.
In a book of interviews with Paul-Robert Thomas, entitled Jacques Brel: J’attends la nuit, Brel saw in these “two lovers who separate”, “a metaphor for life and death. Of a being who feels his life slipping away from him. The singer was suffering from cancer, which would take his life on October 9, 1978.
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