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In Pursuit of your Name
08:19
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In Pursuit of Your Name
On the day of your birth, in a Mexican home,
You were given the name of a goddess from Rome:
You can say you were made a Latina for real.
For the places of birth of your body and name
Were to make up the ends of a trip on a plane
You would take as a baby to go overseas.
For your destitute mother had no other option
Than to send you to Europe for good, and adoption,
As if your body and name had been your destiny’s seals.
Chrous:
You’re roaming the world in pursuit of your name.
You go through these changes but you remain the same.
Remaining yourself means exchanging more and more:
That’s the hardest and best thing about going door to door.
When you landed in France, you were peaceful and calm,
As if you’d read your own fate in the lines of your palm
And it wasn’t too heavy a burden to bear.
Neither were you surprised, nor did you shiver or blush,
When you were renamed after a river in Russia:
After all, your own sense of home is always elsewhere.
You accumulate roots instead of sticking to one,
Since you add to your self the places towards which you run,
And I wonder what name you will get once you’re there.
Chorus
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Isis
02:46
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Isis
Oh, what would Isis say
Upon seeing her name abused
To designate men who slay
At random, pretending they choose?
The Goddess’s sole insurrection
Was against mortality:
She was all about resurrection,
Death was no finality.
Chorus:
We give Isis a bad name
When we call them Isis
We give Isis a bad name
Let’s not fuel their crisis.
She was to teach Orpheus her tricks
When he took the tube that morning
With his guitar and his licks,
But tonight, it’s him I’m mourning.
For Isis’ namesakes blew the train
And let all hell break loose:
The bard was killed as he strained
To rehearse a farewell blues.
Chorus
Isis had not reached the train
When Orpheus got on board:
She’d been shot down like some plane
Before she could join the bard.
The pair of wings she used to flap
To restore the dead with breath
Were cut off by those madcaps
Who stand for nothing but death.
Chorus
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The Last Teaching of Jess
1st Verse :
Some will be ready to tell you
“She said she did this for God,”
Or “she said she did this for you,”
In any case it’s odd.
You know, this morning at school,
The teacher set herself aflame
With a match and some fuel.
They say “Nobody’s to blame.”
Chorus:
I wonder, (Wonder!)
It’s hard to sort out the mess,
I wonder, (Wonder!)
What was the last teaching of Jess?
2nd Verse:
Did she want us to see the show
When she did this in the schoolyard?
Did she want us to know
That teaching is getting hard?
They say our best prophet
Died for our sake:
Did she want us to profit
Or to follow in her wake?
Chorus
3rd Verse:
Throughout it all, she was serene.
She walked with self-restraint.
Can you picture the scene?
She wasn’t the first to faint.
She was weighing each step
As if they were words to heed.
Does the memory she left
Still induce you to read?
Chorus (x2)
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In Your Face
04:09
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In Your Face
Verse 1
You keep talking about the real
Thing and the magic touch,
But when start dealing with the real
Magic of the magical real,
You say I’m a little too much,
You say I’m a little too much.
Verse 2
You say that I can fuss over such and such
(Such and such),
Not knowing if I can ever touch
The world outside my mind for real,
The world outside my mind for real, woo!
Verse 3:
But there’s something about your ever moving face
That tells me otherwise (otherwise):
It says it’s not the case
And I can believe my eyes.
Because it’s all in your face,
Yeah it’s all in your face.
Chorus:
It’s all in your face,
It’s all in your face.
Spoken word:
Unpredictable yet deterministic,
There’s something in your face that’s kind of mystic.
It’s always expressing itself, so that it always escapes my grasp
And it keeps me desiring you because it gives me a sense of infinity,
A sense of infinite Otherness.
And it lets me know that… there’s a world out there.
Yeah, you’re the reason why I know there’s a world out there.
Because it’s all in your face.
Chorus.
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J'Arrive
03:58
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J’Arrive
Couplet 1 :
Tu descends dans la rivière,
Saluée par la lisière
Du bois de l’autre rive.
Dans l’eau lustrale et la lumière,
Tu m’invites à tes mystères,
La main tendue, l’air lascive.
Refrain :
J’arrive, j’arrive, j’arrive.
Après tout, c’est pour ça qu’on est là.
J’arrive, j’arrive, j’arrive.
Je n’irai pas au-delà.
Couplet 2 :
Tu m’exposes ton dos nu,
Mains sur le cou, coudes vers les nues,
Mouillant ta nuque d’un geste habile.
Je me glisse dans les plissures
De ta jupe d’eau en un murmure,
Et tu m’annonces, telle une Sybille :
Refrain
Pont :
De l’eau vive, à l’autre rive
J’arrive.
De l’eau d’ici à l’au-delà :
Me voilà.
Refrain (x2)
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6. |
Brussels Hustle
02:29
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Brussels Hustle
Chorus:
I’ve got a brand-new dance
(Brussels, Hustle)
I’ve got a brand-new dance
(Big bad Brussels)
Verse 1:
Big bad Brussels
Do the hustle
We’ve got to make this party go HAM
Beat rush hour
And the night is ours
You can do better than those traffic jams
Chorus
Verse 2:
Big bad Brussels
I know you bustle
But you’ve got to move a little more
Ain’t no stumper
Bumper to bumper
Is only worth it on the dancefloor
Chorus
Breakdown:
Now dance, dance, dance, to the Brussels Hustle
Chorus
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My Odyssey, Eurydice
03:46
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My Odyssey, Eurydice
All you retro specters : never mind looking back,
As long as you stick to the right track.
Verse 1
I went down to the crossroads
And I went upriver:
All the way down to the devil’s abode,
Without a quiver.
And I asked him for the grace
Of looking at your face again,
But he said “Go back to Thrace,
You came here in vain.”
Chorus:
Talking about my Odyssey, Eurydice,
Conjuring you from the fumes of my fantasy.
Verse 2
So I serenaded his wife
Until she felt compelled
To let me lead you back to life
And out of hell.
She yielded to the soaring sounds
Of my blasting blue notes,
But changed her mind when I turned around
To reach out for your ghost.
Chorus
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8. |
A Future Full of joy
05:08
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A Future Full of Joy
The present’s been surpassed
By a past that’s over-present:
Somebody make a forecast
And offer it as a present!
And if the future’s already there,
Can somebody please show me where?
Chorus:
Can you show me a picture
Of a future full of joy?
Free me from the strictures
Of being yesterday’s toy!
My memory’s so saturated
That it goes further back than birth
And forces me to carry the weight
Of my forebears’ sorrow on this earth,
But I ain’t looking for amnesia;
I just need a little anesthesia
(Every once in a while, so)
Chorus
Sure, I know foresight is a gift
That may well poison my present,
But I so badly need a lift
That only imagination’s pleasant:
Perhaps the future was made a mystery
So as to counterbalance the weight of history.
Chorus
(Passé surprésent,
Présent surpassé,
Qu’on me fasse le présent
D’un oracle avisé/à viser.)
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Prophetic Vision (Of the Past)
Verse 1
Have you ever seen the future?
Well, here it comes. Ooh… Listen baby.
Some people think of Paradise
As of a past we can’t retrieve,
So they end up paralyzed,
Naively looking back at Eve.
But ever since I met you, Dear,
And had this sense of déjà vu,
I know the past could come this year
And heaven I may build with you.
Chorus:
I have just come to this decision:
I think I want this love to last
Because you fulfill this prophetic vision
That I’ve had of the past.
Yes you do…
Verse 2
Some people say that God is dead;
What if He wasn’t born yet?
Genesis is what lies ahead:
Let’s make love before we forget.
Eden is but an ancient image
Of what we shall one day achieve,
So let’s embark on this pilgrimage:
Just take my hand and say that you believe.
Chorus:
I have just come to this decision:
I know I want this love to last
Because you fulfill this prophetic vision
That I’ve had of the past.
Woo hoo! Baby, baby… Heee!
Chorus x 2
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10. |
Vatic Vintage
04:14
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Vatic Vintage
Oh, when will you realize?
The old ones told no lies
Speaking of men who sang verse
That made rivers flow in reverse
And caused the winds to rise and rise.
Oh, when will you realize?
Oh when will you take heed?
Nature responds to our deeds:
We’ve been misusing our power
And it’s the eleventh hour.
You reap what you sow ’til you run out of seeds
Unless you take heed.
Oh, when will you take note?
We’ve been like rats on a sinking boat (hey hey)
And the only reason she’s going under
Is that we turn a blind eye to our blunders.
Soon there’ll be nothing left afloat
Unless you take note (and let it sink in).
Do take these notes!
Understand we’re vatic!
Ain’t got toys in the attic (no no...)
We can change this earth’s course (we can change!)
But we must endorse that force.
Can’t you feel the static?
Understand we’re vatic!
Understand we’re vatic
Understand we’re vintage (old school)
Understand we’re vatic (poetic and prophetic)
Understand we’re vintage (futuristic, haha!)
Understand we’re vatic (say, do you understand?)
Understand we’re vintage.
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Leo Courbot Brussels, Belgium
Dark matter in my rock'n'roll sparkles with celestial soul.
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