Quand On N'a Que L'amour Lyrics in English Dalida , Jacques Brel
"Quand on n'a que l'amour" was written by Jacques Brel in 1956, and this recording is Dalida's version of his anthem.
The song builds around one idea, repeated like a vow: when love is all you have, it's still enough. Verse after verse lists what love can do in place of money or power - it can dress the poor in velvet, comfort the suffering, face down cannons with nothing but a song, and turn a single voice into a way of clearing a path through life.
It's a hopeful, almost stubborn kind of love song. Not romantic love between two people, but love as a stance you take toward the whole world - the idea that sincerity and tenderness can stand up to hardship, and that giving everything you have, even when it isn't much, is still a way of changing things.
