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What Now My Love

Words & Music by Carl Sigman, Gilbert Becaud

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What Now My Love

Words & Music by Carl Sigman, Gilbert Becaud

What now my love
Now that you left me
How can I live through another day
Watching my dreams turn into ashes
And all my hopes into bits of clay
Once I could see, once I could feel
Now I'm a numb
I've become unreal

I walk the night, oh, without a goal
Stripped of my heart, my soul
What now my love
Now that it's over
I feel the world closing in on me
Here comes the stars
Tumbling around me
And there's the sky where the sea should be

What now my love
Now that you're gone
I'd be a fool to go on and on
No one would care, no one would cry
If I should live or die

What now my love
Now there is nothing
Only my last goodbye
Only my last goodbye

More info:

French composers P. Delanoe and Gilbert Bécaud wrote What Now My Love in 1962 under the French title Et Maintenant. Carl Sigman later adapted English lyrics to the song. The first U.S. release of What Now My Love was probably Al Martino's in October 1965 (Capitol 5506). In 1966 Kapp Records released Gilbert Bécaud's original version on the LP What Now My Love (Kapp 1353). That same year, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Band had a million-selling LP titled What Now My Love (A&M SP4114) that contained the popular song of the same title. The single release (A&M 792) peaked at #2 on Billboard's Easy-Listening chart and those by Sonny and Cher (Atco 6395) in 1966 and Mitch Ryder (Dyno Voice 901) in 1967.

Elvis sang What Now My Love in the rehearsal concert (January 12, 1973) for the TV Special Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii, as well as in the special itself, on January 14.


What now my love
Now that you left me
How can I live through another day
Watching my dreams turn into ashes
And all my hopes into bits of clay
Once I could see, once I could feel
Now I'm a numb
I've become unreal

I walk the night, oh, without a goal
Stripped of my heart, my soul
What now my love
Now that it's over
I feel the world closing in on me
Here comes the stars
Tumbling around me
And there's the sky where the sea should be

What now my love
Now that you're gone
I'd be a fool to go on and on
No one would care, no one would cry
If I should live or die

What now my love
Now there is nothing
Only my last goodbye
Only my last goodbye

More info:

French composers P. Delanoe and Gilbert Bécaud wrote What Now My Love in 1962 under the French title Et Maintenant. Carl Sigman later adapted English lyrics to the song. The first U.S. release of What Now My Love was probably Al Martino's in October 1965 (Capitol 5506). In 1966 Kapp Records released Gilbert Bécaud's original version on the LP What Now My Love (Kapp 1353). That same year, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Band had a million-selling LP titled What Now My Love (A&M SP4114) that contained the popular song of the same title. The single release (A&M 792) peaked at #2 on Billboard's Easy-Listening chart and those by Sonny and Cher (Atco 6395) in 1966 and Mitch Ryder (Dyno Voice 901) in 1967.

Elvis sang What Now My Love in the rehearsal concert (January 12, 1973) for the TV Special Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii, as well as in the special itself, on January 14.