Orly is a song by Jacques Brel of 1977, from his last album Les Marquises. The song describes in words that are not misunderstood, the farewell of a few at Orly's Parisian airport.
In this very intimate song, the narrator is a spectator watching the drama in the departure hall from a distance. He describes in strong terms how much the couple, although composed of individuals, forms a unity, ("welded together by the rain") and how much the farewell is a destructive rupture. The narrator makes a strong distinction between the couple of the surrounding crowd. ("There are thousands, but I only see two.") The end of the song makes it clear that this was a feeble and elusive moment, and that the woman was left alone by the crowd that she distinguished herself for.
The refrain refers to another song that played at the same airport, Dimanche à Orly (1963) by Gilbert Bécaud. But where that's a happy song, about a careless middle class that sneaks on the plane on Sunday afternoon, this is a gloomy counterpart.
The song was written in a period when Brel arrived in a late stage of lung cancer, and it is also said that the described farewell is the farewell to his body, in the song represented by the woman.
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