C002 If we were on land
Audio clip: If we were on land
1 Background
To save Cathy, it took 3 more songs to produce an EP. Alain Barrière scraped his drawer bottoms and produced 3 songs from sketches that yesterday, before someone did (My Life, p50). If he had to on earth is one of those three songs ...
2 Lyrics
13 stanzas in all, some very short (3 to) other longer (up to 6), which are structured into 4 sections: A
Initially six short verses that start with If I had that on Earth / One day. Then
B 4 stanzas longer the first two starting My life (well, already?)
C. Then two short verses that start also If I had that on Earth / One day last a
D final stanza.
Sections A and C refer to the possibility that one day in future, be so loved in return and do more definitively removed.
The first two stanzas of section B (My life) paint a picture of what would become our love: My life would not be a Whirlpool / My life would become a slow death.
The last two verses of this same section B gradually introduce a slight glimmer of hope: J e know a tune that turns off only when the life goes . Admittedly, this is not the eternal love, but it's still better than the darkness of despair.
The final stanza opens onto hope as the dawn heralds the end of the night, and then all the birds begin to sing.
3 Music
Many tearful violins, at times with a typical accompaniment, a little style Cha-cha-cha.
An intro that begins with an attack of the violins as a song of Aznavour. If he had to on earth makes me think of my life on .
four themes
The painful cycle of passion: we are here in the middle of the cycle, our love is loved in return and everything is going, except a bad germ that grips the heart cunningly: And if such a happiness could not last? ...
The poet, who transpires: I know a chorus .. air
5 Analysis
A romance, sweet and cutesy, and whose music, wish to syrupy, overly contrast with the feeling of despair in which we are immersed in love. A big shot of blues on an air of lullaby ... But for once (a youthful indiscretion?), The 13th final stanza gives a positive end with a big balloon of hope.
Personally, I find that the level of the text, our poet pushes the metaphor too far: Let the birds stop singing, I'm willing, but the roses start to cry, well then, I ask to see ...
In interpreting, I miss a stronger side, a local accent, short of the feelings that come from the guts ... The interpretation too smooth singularly lacking energy : Timidity of youth? Lack of preparation? The singer is not involved in his text, he slips on like water on feathers of a bird, in contrast to what he knows perfectly later, for example You go ( And the birds sing no more accurate mirror of The bird can not sing anymore ). At the end, the record is saturated and the quavering voice: an insufficient number of doses (hours of recording studio is very expensive, and especially when he is a beginner), quality problem miking, recording the LP problem, usury of the support that was used to digitize ... We know this when the full CD will be available ...
I take these teething problems with the precipitation associated with recording the first disc, with Cathy the title song: it was the first disc so that as soon as possible to be broadcast on the airwaves and in stores . It's a shame, If we were on land is better than a stopgap, perhaps today, with a more muscular accompaniment and a voice more involved ....
6 Sources
Alain Barrier, 2006. Autobiography of my life. Editions du Rocher, Monaco. 235 pp
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