Verve / Appalachian Springs
Forth (2008, Parlophone / EMI)
Il est des musiques qui tutoient dès les premières notes, étreignant l'auditeur comme le ferait un parent ou un ami après une longue séparation. Sauf que dans le cas présent, ce sont des retrouvailles avec soi-même que célèbrent ces sources appalachiennes, avec leur harmonie mélancolique, leurs guitares emphatiques, leur ambiance éthérée et leur chant qui joue à saute-mouton sur les nuages. J'y entends un de ces instants étranges où, perdu dans l'immensité des grands espaces, on se surprend à songer à sa propre condition d'homme, si insignifiante au regard des forces et des dimensions de la nature. Un de ces instants encore plus étranges où, passant du général au particulier, on en vient à considérer avec une surprenante indulgence le bilan somme toute positif des doutes et des certitudes qui font de nous un être à la fois si unique et si prévisible. Cette chanson ample et magnifique panse les plaies, cicatrise les blessures, calme les peurs et parvient presque à convaincre qu'on est quelqu'un de bien.
23 mars 2009
Vidéo / Appalachian Springs
Montage photo de Michelle Leigh, 2009.
Auteurs
Paroles et musique : Richard Ashcroft.
Paroles
Does anybody know where we really gonna go
I was wondering if we've got that real soul
You know the thing you cannot trade, or ever own
Does anybody know where we really gonna go
I was wondering if we've got that real soul
You know the thing we cannot trade or ever own
'cause solitude, the sacred mood,
Appalachian springs, all my things
Took a step to the left
Took a step to the right
I saw myself..
and it wasn't quite right ..are you?
Does anybody know where we really gonna go
I was looking for answers in the sun
Here are feelings that a man can't control
I let the fire burn bright in the dead of night
I supposed she'd get I told a lie
I said that I would never be on this side
Took a step to the left
Took a step to the right
And I saw myself and it wasn't quite right
I took a step to the left
I took a step to the right
And I keep it together
And I was waiting for my number to come
Like a bingo calling singing in the sun
He said a number sixty-nine, I said ok
cause solitude, my sacred mood,
Appalachian springs, all my things
Took a step to the left
Took a step to the right
And I keep it together
You know I'm not right
Took a step to the left
I Took a step to the right
I'm gonna keep it together
Does anybody know where we really gonna go
I was wondering if we've gotta have real soul
You know the thing we cannot trade, or ever own, or ever own, or ever own...
Lord, I'm coming home,
Feel so young,
I don't know where I've gone
I took a step to the left
I took a step to the right
And I saw myself
And it wasn't quite right
yeah, slip to the dreams
Slippin out, slippin in and out of the dream
