L’Enfance
Posted in Chanson on Oct 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Jacques Brel died thirty years ago this month, not yet 50 years old. Here in memory of that majestic talent is one of his gentlest songs - L’Enfance (Childhood). Brel was admirably unsentimental and even here, when you might expect some softening of feeling, he never lets us forget that childhood is a preparation for the sadness of being grown up.
‘Childhood - who can tell when it ends, when it begins. It is nothing, a rashness, all that cannot be written down……… Childhood - the right to dream and to dream still. My father once was a seeker of gold; care is what he found.’
