Cursive / A Gentleman Caller
The Ugly Organ (2003, Saddle Creek)
Toute de bruit et de fureur : cette chanson commence très mal, un peu comme Handshake Heart Attack de Photo Atlas. Ce sont des cris, des guitares stridentes, une colère désordonnée. Le contraste n'en est que plus que saisissant avec l'infinie douceur de la seconde partie, enveloppée du velours d'un violoncelle. Le chant s'élève en virevoltant dans une harmonie de plus en plus émouvante, jusqu'à propulser la conclusion jusqu'à l'universalité. The worst is over, entend-on dans un frisson éminemment personnel, en songeant immanquablement à sa propre condition.
14 novembre 2020
Vidéo / A Gentleman Caller
En studio à One Percent Production à Omaha (Nebraska, États-Unis), le 17 décembre 2013.
Vidéo éditée par Love Drunk.
Auteurs
Paroles : Tim Kasher. Musique : Tim Kasher, Gretta Cohn, Clint Schnase, Matthew Maginn et Ted Stevens
Paroles
Your gentleman caller
Well, he's been calling on another
He loves his forbidden fruit
And as it dribbles down his chin
He cries "Baby I've been drinking with some friends
Now how about a little kiss?"
Bad boy!
Rub his nose in it
What a mess
And he's playing dumb
"I'm not looking for a lover
All those lovers are liars
I'd never lie to you
You say you wanna get even?
You say you want to get your bad man good?
Well, are you in the mood?"
You bad girl!
Doesn't it feel good?
Being bad, and getting worse?
But in the morning
On the sober dawn of Sunday
You're not sure what you've done
Who told you love was fleeting?
Sometimes men can be so misleading
To take what they need from you
Whatever you need to make you feel
Like you've been the one behind the wheel
The sunrise is just over that hill
The worst is over
Whatever I said to make you think
That love's the religion of the weak
This morning we loved like weaklings
The worst is over
