https://soundcloud.com/ambroise-1/la-deprime?si=a54aa756d2444f7fbe473b6e3bf82392&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
At last a song is ready !
This is absolutely unrelated to Valentine's day.
I'm using a midi drum set for the first time.
Got the idea for the song on the l'ukedunum blog : a bunch of ukulele players playing songs together in a bar in Lyon. All songs for the next time are to be related to low-spirit feeling. But they change the theme every month so I'm sure they are OK.
— English lyrics below —
C’est un réveil qui préfère ne plus sonner
Et qui te met dans la panade
Dans la purée toute la journée
Tu coures après tes heures maussades
C’est quand tu regardes le temps qu’il fait
Et c’est le froid qui répond sarcastique
Le soleil se demande pourquoi il s’est levé
Sur cette ambiance de nuit arctique
Refrain :
La déprime
Ça te rattrape quand tu t’débinnes
Ça exprime
Un ras-le-bol plein de strychnine
Ça t’égratigne
Comme un trou au fond de ton blue-jean
Ça t’abime
C’est un déballonnement de la frime
C’est voir le monde par la lorgnette
de ton écran de télévision
Quand tu cherches au milieu des sornettes
Pour qui voter aux élections
On cherche à s’en débarrasser
Comme d’une canine déjection
Planquée sous la semelle, coincée
Entre d’inexpugnables crampons
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It's an alarm clock that won’t bother to ring
And that puts you through massive trouble
rowing in the mud all day long
To catch up on your dreary hours
It's when you look at the weather
And the cold answers sarcastically
The sun wonders why it rose
On this arctic night atmosphere
Chorus :
low-spirit
It catches up with you when you're slacking off
It expresses
that you feel like fed up with strychnine
It scratches you
Like a hole in the bottom of your blue jeans
It damages you
It's a breaking down of the show
It's seeing the world through the spyglass
of your television screen
When you're looking in the nonsense
For whom to vote in the next elections
We try to get rid of it
Like a dog waste
Hidden under the sole, stuck
Between impregnable spikes
@chipwithrow Mar 2022
Well, those are some great, vivid lyrics - humorously, exquisitely depressing!
I play uke, and I love that driving strumming pattern of yours! That's some swell blues harmonica playing, too - I like both the solo and how you weave it into the verses. Good one!
@sherrylynnlee Mar 2022
Le choix du blues complémente cette description parfaite de la déprime. Les comparaisons utilisées montrent à quel point c'est coriace, sans relâche, sans pitié. Bravo!
@coolparadiso Mar 2022
#Tit4tat. Very different to what i have heard so far. Classic bluesy beat, interesting use of Uke. Very Nice lyric love the similes/metaphors and finally here comes the harmonica yay! Good one
@tukayandryan Mar 2022
Love the wry humour in this. Half spoken vocal works really well. The drums and the uke go together really well! Love the harmonica :)
#tit4tat
@davidbreslin101 Feb 2022
Funny and poetic lyrics. I love the way you duet with the harmonica in the chorus, and pairing that heavy drum beat with ukuleles was inspired!
@guatecoop Feb 2022
What a cool song! I love the lyrics and how you put a fairly edgy sound to match it! ….but with a UKE?!?! You really made this work so well. Great harmonica! So cool! Well done.