This song is inspired by a cartoonist's work, more specifically this comic blog note (english version) : https://english.bouletcorp.com/2009/11/07/4-short-stories/
I'm a big fan of his work. Every blog note is fun, sweet and clever.
I tried to write some kind of conclusion to that mentioning the mystery of life and intelligence, Darwin, Lucretius, large numbers mathematics and possibility of hope for life in this universe and it got more and more heavy, indigestible and boring. So I decided it better for anybody to draw their own conclusions.
https://soundcloud.com/ambroise-1/lorage?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
— English translation below —
Si de mon cinquième étage
Je lance une goutte d’eau
Quelles chances en pourcentage
Qu’elle touche ton manteau ?
Une chance une sur dix
Une chance une sur cent
Pour que ta nuque frémisse
Pour figer ton mouvement
Si je m’envole à cent mètres
Tutoyer les martinets
Reste-t-il une fenêtre
Pour que l’envoi t’ait touché ?
Une chance une sur mille
Sur un million un milliard
Les pronostics se défilent
Et s’évaporent en brouillard
Maintenant trois kilomètres
Là sur mon nimbostratus
Je balance à l’aveuglette
Une seule goutte en plus
Il faudrait juste un miracle
Pour qu’elle asperge ta tête
Un sortilège un pentacle
La main d’un Dieu qui s’entête
Et pourtant c’est ça l’orage
Vingt miracles à la seconde
Qui te trempent le visage
Sans que la stupeur t'inonde
Pont
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If from my fifth floor
I throw a drop of water
What are the chances in percentage
of it hitting your coat?
One chance in ten
A one in one hundred chance
To make your neck quiver
To freeze your movement
If I fly a hundred meters away
To get close to the swallows
What chance have you still
of being hit by a rebellious drop?
One chance in one thousand
In a million, in a billion
The prognoses are slipping away
And evaporate into a fog
Now from a three-kilometer distance
There on my nimbostratus
I throw blindly
A single drop more
It would only take a miracle
For it to touch your head
A spell, a pentacle
The hand of a stubborn God
And yet this is the rain
Twenty miracles a second
That soak your face
And stupor doesn’t even flood you
@resonut123 Apr 2022
Dig the rhythmic guitar and the smooth muted lead guitar too.
Thought provoking lyric.
A Jazzy groove, well done.
@wolfkier Mar 2022
What a lovely groovy reminder of the absolutely interconnected interplay of everything. Very nice. "the hand of a stubborn God" is great to. It makes one think of opportunities/losses/movements/fate/luck but in a cool smooth way.
If you did have more physics (I guess) detail, then this could also be a great idea for students of these phenomenon to study/learn.
Your music always brings to mind films and I am reminded of the opening sequence of Peter Greenaways Zoo: Or A Zed and 2 Noughts. The compounded intersections, philosophical, literal, temporal, ironic, etc create and exist in the opening scene catastrophy.
Good stuff, Enjoyed as much as I hope you are enjoying mine
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If you missed my note earlier, and you want to continue #tit4tat, I hope so, please feel free to comment in French. I'm sure it will be easier for you if some nuance is involved. Hugs my friend.
I hope also that we will cross paths during 50/90 later in the year, be sure to say hello! :)
Also:
is the guitar supposed to be popping and jumping like at around 205-208 and other places? Is that clipping distortion, is it intentional? , Seems like the voice has a harsh "cK" sound to it to. Wondering.
@apolez3 Mar 2022
Sounds to me that we are missing all the bloody miracles around... nicely done! I'm learning French atm. :) #tit4tat
@roddy Mar 2022
very cool, the lyrics are good and thought provoking, The guitar is great to listen to.
@shallowcarrot Feb 2022
I learnt about the cartoonist from this, and I find their work quite funny. The goofiness of the comic is there in your song in the guitar licks, and the spoken word style of singing, but it's subtle and I like that.
@jtsteam Feb 2022
I enjoyed this! And a chance to practise my very rusty French. Merci!
@metalfoot Feb 2022
The groove to this song though... wow. And the playfully philosophical lyrics... just great.