A Day Out of Time

To Irene Bobkoff
 

O, what a day today we are in,
We are lost in time today...
O, my friend, my love, my darling!
We are alive… What can I say...?
We still love and we still live on...
We still live and we still love...
And we do not really know
What is life, and what is love...

O, Lord! Give me one more!
One more day to live!
O, Lord! Give me one more!
Chance to live, to love, to be loved, to believe!

Every day I pour my coffee
In the cup I bought in Spain...
Then I add some milk to the coffee
Though I know: it's all in vain…
Then I add some brown sugar
To the coffee and the milk...
Stir the substance to be sure
That my coffee is ideal...

O, Lord! Give me one more!
One more day to live!
O, Lord! Give me one more!
Chance to live, to love, to be loved, to believe!

Once I've drunk my cup of coffee…
And I light a cigarette...
Blow a couple rings of smoke, and
Flick the ashes in the tray...
Then I get up... Put my hat on...
Walk into the heavy rain...
Nothing cry of, or regret of...
Nothing venture, nothing have...

O, Lord! Give me one more!
One more day to live!
O, Lord! Give me one more!
Chance to live, to love, to be loved, to believe!

O, what a day today we are in,
We are lost in time today...