LA TOYOTA FANTASTIQUE, Longwy 1984. Plus tôt ? Calou, Eric, Jean-Claude (puis Marc). Jamais vu cette Toyota (celle du Bébos ?). Leur musique restera à jamais fantastique. Merci.

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Pris sur le vif et mixé par steph uriot 05/11/2022 chez Paulette...Un grand merci à toute l'équipe de chez paulette....

exquisites pains

Exquisites Pains

Wedding Guest (Fled the Wedding):

One spring, you’re invited to the wedding of a lover from your past: someone you’ve lost touch with. Your affair was long ago. As far as you know, you bear each other no malice; you’re mere memories. Your lives and social scenes long since diverged, like loose clumps of mown grass thrown onto the surface of a lawn-lining creek break apart floating downstream. You finger the mailed invitation, musing; yours came with a heartfelt handwritten entreaty, so with some lingering doubt you decide to risk attending. 

At this midlife wedding of this old lover, some newly revealed present reality bumps and blends with memories of your past together. Visions surface in your mind of how it might have gone differently, or why it didn’t and couldn’t. The collision of old and new, of casual hedonism with half-hearted stabs at half-commitment, kicks up memories and judgments, dimly formed, that start to jostle and swirl around you, forming a fog of regret, irritation, nostalgia, yearning and confusion that at last you pierce with a slightly superior point of view, a slit-eyed glance of condescension down at your former paramour. 

Slicing through the veils of this wild carnival of a wedding, you glimpse the life situation your ex-lover is embracing, or passively surrendering to, as a sad farce. Or is it? Should it have been you? Did you make a narrow escape? Where will you both diverge to now? Who is, who was, who will be the happy one? Recalling the old days and ruminating over them repeatedly, you go home drunk, and wondering.

Bass: Eddie Eyeball
Guitar: Julian Maile
Vox/Keys: Anton Sword
Written & Produced by Anton Sword
Mastered by Dan Walker
photograph image © American Museum of Natural History
Music & Lyrics copyright © 2023 Anton Sword/Fugue State Music
All Rights Reserved

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