So there is this advice that I heard sometimes : Use simple words when you write songs. But I have this demoniac lust for complicated words.
https://soundcloud.com/ambroise-1/la-logorrhee-sauvage?si=86ca1db36d8f434b813c98b9a274b101&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
— English translation below —
On m’a dit d’un ton protecteur
D’utiliser des mots plus clairs
C’est du respect pour l’auditeur
C’est l’assurance de mieux plaire
Mais j’aime les mots qui s’esbingnent
Dans les tréfonds ou dans les limbes
Les borborygmes longilignes
Qu’une nuée de sens nimbe
Et si la chose qu’il désigne
est incertaine et évasive
Si son assonance est maligne
Alors mon appétit s’avive
On m’a dit, autant que possible
Pour m’extrader de mon ghetto
D’être plus simple et accessible
De préférer le moindre mot
Mais j’aime les mots qui exhallent
Un parfum de monde oublié
J’aime le doute qui déballe
Un univers insoupçonné
Parler un langage distinct
Dans un jargon de magie noire
Hiératiques, abstrus, sibyllins
Semblant sortir d’un vieux grimoire
Je bats ma coulpe et pour atteindre
La clarté de mes paragraphes
Je jure souvent de restreindre
mes embardées lexicographe
Mais j’aime les mots qui déploient
Des dimensions inexplorées
L’étrangeté du contre-emploi
La désuétude consommée
J’aime les glossaires imprévus
Quand l’étymologie s’égare
Les épices du saugrenu
Les truculences du bizarre
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I've been told in a patronizing tone
To use clearer words
To show the listener respect
And please them more efficiently
But I like words that escape
In the depths or in the limbo
The long-shaped borborygms
With a blurry meaning
And if the thing it refers to
Is uncertain and evasive
If its assonance is malignant
Then my appetite grows
I was told, as much as possible
To come out of my ghetto
To be more simple and accessible
To prefer the simpler word
But I like words that breathe out
A scent of a forgotten world
I like the doubt that unwraps
An unsuspected universe
To speak a distinct language
In a jargon of black magic
Hieratic, abstruse, sibylline
Coming from of an old grimoire
I surrender and to achieve
Clear paragraphs
I often swear to restrain
my lexicographic flights of fancy
But I like words that unfold
unexplored dimensions
The strangeness of the counter use
The resolute old-fashioned
I like unexpected glossaries
When etymology goes astray
The spices of the foolish
The truculence of the bizarre
@berni1954 Mar 2022
Cette chanson est géniale. Moi aussi on me dit constamment que je devrais écrire des chançons plus simples. Mais je ne fonctionne pas de cette façon.
J'aime aussi les mots longs, les mots obscurs, les mots archaïques, etc. Et je suis aussi fan de l'étymologie.
@pippa Mar 2022
And Ambroise... do you have an email address? I'm at [email protected]. I host a world music show on a community radio station (KOPN.org) featuring music from outside the borders of the USA. And would it be OK if I played some of your FAWM tracks to share? I cannot download them, as you post them first to SoundCloud, but if you could send me mp3s that would be great. My radio shows info is at pippaletsky.com/events
@pippa Mar 2022
This too... I love the vote of devotion to words, long or short, simple or complicated, they're all good, some for what they do say and some for what they convey without saying...
@feb21sundari Feb 2022
Vers grandioses. J'aime aussi les mots spéciaux. J'aime aussi beaucoup la musique qui va avec.
@oaksnprairie Feb 2022
If everyone wrote songs with simple words, life would be boring. I like the baroque language--it sets you apart.
@johnnycashpoint Feb 2022
What a lovely song! I would turn down the lead slightly, a bit invasive. But other than that, all good. Another great song!
@metalfoot Feb 2022
I love the chord structure and feel to this song a lot and, like you, I have an affinity for fancy and complicated words. Especially when I'm tired, my vocabulary tends to get more and more expansive!
Great song. :)