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"My way "

My Way, poznata prvo kao Comme d'habitude, je pjesma koju su komponirali Jacques
Revaux i Claude François a tekst su napisali Claude François i Gilles Thibaut.




O pjesmi

Pjesma je prvenstveno poznata po izvedbama Franka Sinatre i Elvisa Presleya. Kada je Sinatra
čuo pjesmu na francuskom, poželio ju je sam izvesti na engleskom, tako da je tražio pomoć pri
pronalaženju odgovarajućeg teksta. David Bowie mu je pokazao tekst koji je on napisao, no
Sinatri se tekst nije dopao i odbio ga je korsistiti. Bowie se naljutio i sam odlučuje koristiti tekst,
što je rezultiralo pjesmom Life on Mars?. Engleski tekst za pjesmu My Way napisao je Paul Anka.
Anka nije originalni tekst preveo sa francuskog na engleski, već je napisao posve novi tekst.
My Way je i popularna karaoke pjesma.
My Way (engl. moj put) je bila osnova Sinatrine doktrine koju je sovjetska vlada Mihaila Gorbačova
koristila da šaljivo opiše svoju politiku prema susjednim državama Varšavskog pakta i koja dozvoljava
narodima da slobodno odlučuju o vlastitim unutarnjim pitanjima.


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"My way "

And now, the end is here
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
I traveled each and ev'ry highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way

Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all, when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way

I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way,
"Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way"

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows and did it my way!

Yes, it was my way

Songwriters:
JACQUES REVAUX, CLAUDE FRANCOIS,
GILLES THIBAUT, PAUL ANKA