Joseph Arthur - Redemption City (2011)

Je continue de me promener dans l'oeuvre de Joseph Arthur.

Il n'a pas écrit que des conneries, il en a aussi filmées.

Je ne suis pas pressé, je n'aime pas tout, il fait trop chaud pour être un fan transi et la midinette est morte en moi depuis belle lurette, mais j'ai beaucoup cherché l'album "Redemption City" avant de découvrir qu'il l'avait lui-même mis en téléchargement libre sur son site officiel.

C'est malin.

On peut toujours lui envoyer des sioux.

Que faire d'un songwriter de ce calibre, qui non content de nous suggérer des idées plus que généreuses, fortement connotées d'un christianisme post-moderne, s'acharne à s'auto-pirater, poussant la générosité dans ses ultimes retranchements ?

On peut aussi comparer la version dure et la version molle de "travel as equals", extraites de l'album, dont l'écriture ravit le vieil hippie qui sommeille en moi, avec son petit refrain aux relents de programme en 12 étapes (dans la version molle) "Surrender sets you free". 

Et vu son rythme de production, on se demande s'il n'a pas mis au point un logiciel de gestation de chansons incluant un algorithme à recycler des expressions bibliques juste un peu moins obscures que celles de Dylan.

A part ça, il fait chaud, hein ?

Travel As Equals

In the dark of grave yard chatter
In the light of freedoms call
In the heat of any matter
We travel as equals or not at all

Bloom disgust and class divide
I saw it written on the wall
The only way we can survive
We travel as equals or not at all

You can't be in greater comfort
As my pain prevents your fall
The truth will come and tell us brother
We travel as equals or not at all
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
And when we get to where we're going
Past the divide past the stall
Past the wind that's always blowing
Travel as equals or not at all

In your way(?), you found a way free
In your way, you found a way, follow me
Give it up, give it up
Give it up to your destiny
In your way, you found a way free

And you might have a greater income
Or you might be dumb and dull
But either way I won't leave you
Travel as equals or not at all

So help me too in my slumber
If I'm blind in madness hall
If I'm deaf amongst the thunder
Travel as equals or not at all

Lift the way forget the ransom
Free the chain and kick the ball
Let our love take us higher
Travel as equals or not at all

And down the road and through the sky
And on the tracks, hear the gull
Fly above us, without worry
Travel as equals or not at all

I hope your road takes you homeward
And may you always outrun the law
If I'm with you we will always
Travel as equals or not at all

Yes if I'm with you we will always
Travel as equals or not at all
Yes if I'm with you we will always
Travel as equals or not at all

In your way(?), you found a way free
In your way, you found a way, follow me
Give it up, give it up
Give it up to your destiny
In your way, you found a way free

In the dark of grave yard chatter
In the light of freedoms call
In the heat of any matter
We travel as equals or not at all

Bloom disgust and class divide
I saw it written on the wall
The only way we can survive
We travel as equals or not at all

The only way we can survive
We travel as equals or not at all
The only way we can survive
We travel as equals or not at all
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
In your way(?), you found a way free
In your way, you found a way, follow me
Give it up, give it up
Give it up to your destiny
In your way, you found a way free
In your way, you found a way free
In your way, you found a way free