Helen Merrill & Stan Getz , If You Go Away 1989

 Hermosísima versión del If You Go Away, a cargo de la gran Helen Merrill con la introducción del saxo de Stan Getz. La belleza de la canción, música y letra, se ajustan a la voz de Merrill y la saxo de Getz dejando las trazas de la melancolía. Con el piano de Torrie Zito marcando ese paseo por la soledad. Se grabó, junto a otras dos pistas del disco Just Friends, los días 11 y 12 de junio de 1989, en el Studio Guillaume Tell, en París. La canción nos ilustra cómo Merrill llegó a la mejor expresión artística, dramática, en baladas como esta. na cantante esencial.  ¡Disfrútalo!

If You Go Away (Ne me  quitte pas) Jacques Brel - Rod McKuen

If you go away on this summer day

Then you might as well take the sun away

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 bird's 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

And 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

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