From Ben Sidran’s commentary on his album (from his website):
“The starting premise of Camus’ existentialism can be compared to jazz in that in both jazz and existentialism, we begin with a world of open possibilities and rely on our own experiences and emotions to figure out the next move, rather...
Down on the D’Orsay side
Where the river’s just a muddy slide
There’s a little slipaway
Where the Algerian hides
un homme du midi
un homme détruit
un homme de la vie
c'est tout c'est fini
Say you won’t live your life
If you spend your life searching for the key
It’s just a passage in the shadows
Between what’s wrong and what’s right
Where it gets so dark
You can’t even see the light
la lumière la lumière
je peux pas voir
Je peux pas sentir
It’s all so dark but baby
It’s all is so clear:
If you don’t say what you want
Want what you say
You just hanging in the cut
Between avant and passé
To the other guy
You’re the other guy
To the stranger
You’re the stranger
It gets so dark
You can’t even see the light
And there’s a dance that you can do
Between the day and the night
un homme du midi
un homme détruit
un homme de la vie
c'est tout c'est fini
Say you won’t live your life
If you’re looking for the key
If you spend your life looking for the way
You’ll never do tomorrow
What you won’t do today
Enough is never enough
When time is slipsliding away
je peux pas voir
Je peux pas sentir
It’s all so dark
But it’s all so clear:
To the other guy
you are the other guy
To the stranger
you’re the stranger
Blue Camus was written by Ben Sidran.
Ben Sidran released Blue Camus on Wed Jan 01 2014.