Seasons in the Sun – Why did he die?
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, May 27th, 2013 at 05:24 PM (6679 Views)
A couple of days ago one old song started to play in my head, so of course I needed to find it from YouTube: Terry Jacks' "Seasons in the sun". I listened to both English and Finnish version (which was the "original" for me, I heard it a lot when I was a kid) while I was playing solitaire (when I should have been cleaning etc, but that's another story...).
Because I listened it many times, I became really aware of the lyrics, and some googling was needed. Terry Jacks' version isn't actually the original, it is originally a Belgian song, and it was translated into English once before Terry's version, first version was a bit more faithful to the original. But all versions tell about a dying man saying goodbyes. But I didn't find answer to my original question: Why the hell was the man dying?!
When I was looking for info of lyrics, I also found out that Westlife had made a version of it. I won't link it, it's bad (Teen idols bleating like sheep while backgound sounds like a Christmas schlager). Find it at your own risk.