The second life is calling

[Photo : JMA]

Entre deux vagues de COVID, un élan d'optimisme me poussa à  prendre des billets pour assister au retour d'Arab Strap sur ses terres, à savoir à Glasgow ! Ma cote d'amour du groupe étant ce qu'elle est, et leur album étant une telle réussite, ça ne pouvait être que formidable !

Comme on pouvait s'y attendre, Aidan Moffat a fait son entrée sur scène sur le beat du sompteux "the turning of our bones"

I don't give a fuck about the past, our glory days gone by

All I care about right now is that wee mole inside your thigh

And my confidence might crumble but my brio is unbroken

Let me loosen all your knots

Let our bodies be awoken

It's been another seven years

It's showing round the eyes

Another seven years entombed in lethargy and lies

But let's dig out our old clothes and prepare for celebration

I am The Son of Sleep

All I need's an invitation

The heart began to putrify and then the body bloated

As our hair and teeth fell out, we did our best to be devoted

But let's squeeze the maggots from our flesh like tiny poison pustules

Abandon all decorum

Boil us down to our essentials

We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams

And the sun, the moon, the earth, the neighbours long to hear our screams

So if Bacchus is a friend to Love, then take this cup of kindness

Just one sip, one chug, one kiss could cure us of our blindness

Hear my wanton whispers

My loud, intemperate plea

We've been down among the dead men,

now you're coming up with me

Dig us up and hold us high

Raise our carcass to the sky

Wrap us up in sequin skin

And we can dance again in sin

Just take my hand and be brave

We'll say goodbye to this grave

Tonight we salsa, we rave

We are upcycled and saved

We've got the hay so let's roll

Surrender all self control

Quick now before the bell tolls

Let's sing the sighs from our souls

In the long grass, underneath the sun I saw you

In Tesco with your buttons undone I saw you

Hand in hand as we do the school run I saw you

In a mask with a secret someone I saw you

Let's not be bashful

Don't be oblique

The flesh is willing but the spirit is weak

The second life is calling

Feel its pull, feel its tow!

So let's live now before we're back below

Arab Strap - The Turning of Our Bones

As Days Get Dark (2021)