No I Could Never Forget - Charles Aznavour

I never really thought we’d ever meet again

But fate deals out the hands, we must take what its chosen

When in an idle glance you appeared, time was frozen

No, I could never forget

I look upon your face, I can’t believe my eyes

Passing times often cruel, it fades youth like a flower

But you have never changed, where the years but an hour?

No, I could never forget, never forget

Married, me?

Heavens no!

I’m still single but happy

To be free, unattached and between you and me

Better that than ill-matched, though at times I feel lonely

But enough about me, let’s drink to you and life

How have you been, all these years?

Are you happy and well?

No?

I guess I could tell, and your marriage?

It’s ended

Do your parents regret?

That’s not what they intended

No, I could never forget

Who could have ever known, without a single word

That we’d come face to face?

There’d not been any reason

I thought all things must die, as a time or a season

No, I could never forget

I don’t know what to say, it’s like some crazy dream

The way the past returns, all my memories unbroken

Yes, I remember too every word that was spoken

No, I could never forget, never forget

Youth, a foolish age, we thought love was our treasure

But your father said no, you would marry someone

With position and name, you’d receive life’s full measure

And he said with a smile, I’m sure you understand?

So, with love in our eyes, we exchanged last goodbyes

But your father was shrewd, all my unanswered letters

Forced me soon to conclude things had worked for the better

No, I could never forget

The hour is getting late, this place is closing down

Come, yes come I’ll walk you home

Through the streets, dark and empty

Like in our foolish days of kisses stolen nightly

No, I could never forget

Each season was for us, a season for our love

And we were not afraid as autumn turned to winter

As long as there’s youth, it is springtime forever

No, no I could never forget, never forget

It’s strange, the warmth I feel in these moments together

We’ve recaptured the time in the midst of our youth

When two hearts were in line and were light as a feather

But we both know the truth, we must live for today

So, I’ll ask, if I may, if you’d like me to stay?

If this time we can share what the past was concealing

If you’re lonely and care, if you have the same feeling

If you’re remembering yet

All the things I could never forget