Zelfs een dwaas leert lief te hebben

Voor een Engelstalige versie van Comme d'habitude werd een soort intekening gedaan. De auteurs gaven de voorkeur aan de versie van Paul Anka boven die van David Bowie, in 1968. Het kan verkeren.

There was a time, the laughing time
I took my heart to every party
They'd point my way
"How are you today?"
"Will you make us laugh?
Chase our blues away?"
Their funny man won't let them down
No, he'd dance and prance and be their clown
That time, the laughing time
When even a fool learns to love

The clown turned around
And saw her smile, Oh how she loved me
She'd clap her hands and beg me stay
To make her laugh, to make her life gay
Who wants the love of all the world
When here was love in the eyes of just one girl
That day, that precious day
When even a fool learns to love

But Oh, how I dreamed, a marvelous dream
Where all of the heavens or so it had seemed
With thunderous applause looked down from above
On a clown and an angel so much in love
I'll stay with my dream, it takes such a dream
And even a fool learns to love

That day, that hateful day
The joke turned stale, the game was over
Those spiteful words "Oh, go
away. Who wants to play?"
"It's getting late now."
My world, my funny world
Had lost its mask and shown a broken heart
A time, a sour time
When even a fool learns to love

But Oh, how I dreamed, a marvelous dream
Where all of the heavens or so it had seemed
With thunderous applause looked down from above
On a clown and an angel so much in love
I'll stay with my dream, it takes such a dream
And even a fool learns to love


Zekere Tom Lawrence beproeft zijn krachten er op.


De enige bekende demoversie met Claude François op de achtergrond synchroon, gaat over in een bruiloften- en partijenversie door Richard Clayderman


Beiaardier Frank Stiejns op het carillon van het stadhuis van Maastricht met Life on Mars. Dit nummer heet geënt te zijn op Comme d'habitude. Eerlijk gezegd heb ik dat er nooit aan afgehoord.


Toegift: Warszawa, van Low