Based on the 1964 song, La Vie l’Amour la Mort by Félix Leclerc (1918-1988)
I heard the poet sing
In his deep baritone
He made his guitar ring
Arpeggios multitone
How beautiful is life
Like a knot in the wood
Taking a drink of life
In your palm is so good
But it’s a fragile life
Whichever way you lean
And it’s so hard a life
You know well what I mean
How beautiful is love
That you wrote on my flesh
I like the feel of love
In your hands it is fresh
The heaviness of love
More than our loins can stand
So short a time is love
And it won’t understand
A crazy thing is death
A wind that chills to the bone
So very deaf is death
Like a corpse on a stone
How dark a thing is death
Laughs as it passes you by
The width and breath of death
Lives all go there by and by
