Paper Truth - Even A Fool Learns To Love (David Bowie)

A pre-fame David Bowie wrote some nice English lyrics to this lovely French song before it became known as My Way. I've not seen anyone else doing an interpretation, so here's mine.

http://www.papertruth.co.uk

Lyrics below.

There was a time, the laughing time
I took my heart to every party
They'd point my way "How are you today?"
"Will you make us laugh? Chase our blues away?"
Their funny man won't let them down
No, he'd dance and prance and be their clown
That time, the laughing time When even a fool learns to

love

The clown turned around
And saw her smile, Oh how she loved me
She'd clap her hands and beg me stay
To make her laugh, to make her life gay
Who wants the love of all the world
When here was love in the eyes of just one girl
That day, that precious day When even a fool learns to

love

But Oh, how I dreamed, a marvelous dream
Where all of the heavens or so it had seemed
With thunderous applause looked down from above
On a clown and an angel so much in love
I'll stay with my dream, it takes such a dream
And even a fool learns to love
That day, that hateful day
The joke turned stale, the game was over
Those spiteful words "Oh, goaway.
Who wants to play?" "It's getting late now."
My world, my funny world
Had lost its mask and shown a broken heart
A time, a sour time When even a fool learns to love

Category:

Music

Tags:

• even a fool learns to love
• comme d'habitude
• my way
• frank sinatra
• david bowie
• paper truth
• acoustic
• guitar

[colintron]

Wow, I just noticed the preview image of this one. I look tremendously ill, and my head is even larger than usual.

[callelago]

Really nice performance. A pity Bowie never recorded it.

[colintron]

@callelago Thanks! DANTECHPFN has actually uploaded footage of Bowie singing along to the first verse or so of the French one, but it seems the full thing isn't around.

[mrdavidbowie]

Well done. Good to see someone taking the initiative of setting his original lyric to the famous chord sequence.

[monkeysoulpoet]

Dang, you're a good singer. You sound a little like Bowie but also a little like Nick Cave.

[Caesarartist]

Very good, congratulations!