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Shock the Monkey

Xavier-Aurélien Racine, 05/02/2023

Cover me when I run
Cover me through the fire
Something knocked me out the trees, now I’m on my knees
Cover me, darling please

Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don’t you know you’re going to shock the monkey?
Hey, hey

Fox the fox, rat on the rat
You can ape the ape, I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I can’t take anymore
Darling, don’t you monkey with the monkey
Hey, hey

Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don’t you know you’re going to shock the monkey?
Hey, hey
Shock the monkey
Hey, hey, yeah

Monkey
Wheels keep turning
A monkey
Something’s burning
Monkey
Don’t like it but I guess I’m learning
Shock, shock, shock
Watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock, shock, shock
Watch the monkey get hurt, monkey

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Cover me when I sleep
Cover me when I breathe
You throw your pearls before the swine, make the monkey blind
Cover me, darling please

Hey, hey
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don’t you know you’re going to shock the monkey?
Hey, hey
Shock the monkey
Hey, hey, yeah

Monkey
Too much at stake
A monkey
Ground beneath me shake
Monkey
And the news is breaking
Shock, shock, shock
Watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock, shock, shock
Watch the monkey get hurt, monkey

Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey, hey, hey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey (Shock the monkey)
Shock the monkey (Shock the monkey)
Shock the monkey (Shock the monkey)
Shock the monkey (Shock the monkey)
Shock the monkey (Shock the monkey)
Shock the monkey (Shock the monkey)
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey to life

Peter Gabriel

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Big time

Xavier-Aurélien Racine, 22/01/2023

“Hi there

I’m on my way, I’m making it
I’ve got to make it show, yeah
So much larger than life
I’m going to watch it growing

The place where I come from is a small town
They think so small, they use small words
But not me – I’m smarter than that, I worked it out
I’ve been stretching my mouth
To let those big words come right out
I’ve had enough, I’m getting out
To the city, the big, big city
I’ll be a big noise with all the big boys
So much stuff I will own

And I will pray to a big god
As I kneel in the big church

(Big time) I’m on my way, I’m making it (Big time)
(Big time) I’ve got to make it show, yeah (Big time)
(Big time) So much larger than life
(Big time) I’m going to watch it growing (Big time)

My parties have all the big names
And I greet them with the widest smile
Tell them how my life is one big adventure
And always, they’re amazed
When I show them round the house, to my bed
I had it made like a mountain range
With a snow-white pillow for my big fat head

And my heaven will be a big heaven
And I will walk through the front door

(Big time) I’m on my way, I’m making it (Big time)
(Big time) I’ve got to make it show, yeah (Big time)
(Big time) So much larger than life
(Big time) I’m going to watch it growing (Big time)

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(Big time) My car’s getting bigger
(Big time) My house, getting bigger
(Big time) My eyes, getting bigger
(Big time) And my mouth
(Big time) My belly’s getting bigger
(Big time) And my bank account
(Big time) Look at my circumstance
(Big time) And the bulge in my big, big, big, big, big, big
Big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big”

Big Time, Peter Gabriel

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The drop

Xavier-Aurélien Racine, 15/01/2023

Moving down the fuselage
Toward the open door
Catch you looking down outside
To see what lies ahead
One by one
You watch them fall
Fall through cloud
One by one
You watch them fall
No idea where they’re going
But down
Where they’ve gone
Where they’ve gone
Watching as the sun goes down
I sit inside this plane
Notice how the city lights
Are like the nerves inside the brain
One by one
They’re going out
You watch them dim
One by one
You watch them fall
And wonder where they’re falling to

Peter Gabriel

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Listening wind

Xavier-Aurélien Racine 08/01/2023

Mojique sees his village from a nearby hill
Mojique thinks of days before Americans came
He serves the foreigners in growing numbers
He sees the foreigners in fancy houses
He dreams of days that he can still remember, now
Mojique holds a package in his quivering hands
Mojique sends the package to the American man
Softly he glides along the streets and alleys
Up comes the wind that makes them run for cover
He feels the time is surely now or never, more

The wind in my heart, the wind in my heart
The dust in my head, the dust in my head
The wind in my heart, the wind in my heart come to
Drive them away, drive them away
The wind in my heart, the wind in my heart
The dust in my head, the dust in my head
The wind in my heart, the wind in my heart come to
Drive them away, drive them away

Mojique buys his equipment in the market place
Mojique plants devices through the Free Trade Zone
He feels the wind is lifting up his people
He calls the wind to guide him on his mission
He knows his friend, the wind, is always standing… by
Mojique smells the wind that comes from far away
Mojique waits for news in a quiet place
He feels the presence of the wind around him
He feels the power of the past behind him
He has the knowledge of the wind to guide him on

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The wind in my heart, the wind in my heart
The dust in my head, the dust in my head
The wind in my heart, the wind in my heart
(Come to)
Drive them away, drive them away
The wind in my heart, the wind in my heart
The dust in my head, the dust in my head
The wind in my heart, the wind in my heart
(Come to)
Drive them away

Talking Heads interprété par Peter Gabriel

Ceci n’est pas une peinture, ceci n’est pas une photographie

Sinéad O’Connor

La chanteuse et compositrice irlandaise Sinead O Connor est née le 08 décembre 1966 à Dublin. 

Xavier-Aurélien Racine, 12/09/2022

I NOTHING COMPARES 2U

Initialement, la chanson a été composée par Prince en 1984. Elle sort sur le disque « The Family » qui ne fut pas un succès. Sinead O’Connor la reprend en 1990 et en permet un succès planétaire.

La chanson problématise le lien qu’entretien le désir avec l’agencement afin de constituer un être au monde.

 […] 

Depuis que tu m’as repris ton amour, 

Je sors tous les soirs et je dors toute la journée

Depuis que tu m’as repris ton amour,

Depuis que tu es parti, je peux faire ce que je veux,

Je peux sortir avec qui je veux,

Je peux diner dans un restaurant grand luxe, mais rien,

J’ai bien dit rien ne peut effacer mon cafard, car rien, rien ne t’égale 

Nothing compares 2 U Prince

« Je ne désire jamais quelque chose tout seul. Je désire, bien plus, je ne désire pas un ensemble non plus, je désire dans un ensemble. ( …). Il n’y a pas de désir qui ne coule dans un agencement. Si bien que le désir ça a toujours été pour moi si tu veux, si je cherche le terme abstrait qui correspond à désir, je dirais, c’est constructivisme. Désirer, c’est construire un agencement, c’est construire un ensemble, l’ensemble d’une jupe, d’un rayon de soleil, (Claire Parnet : d’une femme) d’une rue, voilà. L’agencement d’une femme, d’un paysage, (Claire Parnet, d’une couleur), d’une couleur, voilà ce que c’est un désir, c’est donc construire un agencement, c’est construire une région, c’est vraiment agencer. Le désir, c’est vraiment du constructivisme ».

Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze, D comme Désir. (Cf. Helmut Berger).

L’être là se trouve projeté dans l’angoisse contradictoire à l’amour.

L’entrave à l’expression du désir n’est pas constitutive d’une ouverture mais d’une fermeture à l’émergence du possible annihilant toute construction. Ce qui est donné en potentialité par la rencontre d’ontologies aux différences de potentialités qui sont constitutives d’une différence d’enjeux, se recoupent sur un point ouvrant la perspective. La perspective qui est comprise comme la base du constructivisme. 

Ainsi, le constructivisme est une puissance incarnée par le désir dans la rencontre produisant l’expression.

« L’homme comme le créateur est l’objet de « la fortune » qui élève l’homme au sommet et le jette à terre, afin qu’elle en rît et qu’elle en pleure » Machiavel.

De la volonté d’agir à l’action impossible, l’homme se trouve pris au cœur d’une double contrainte impactant la puissance créatrice.

II  I DO NOT WANT WHAT I HAVEN’T GOT (1990) 

« Je marche à travers le désert, 

Et je n’ai pas peur même s’il fait chaud,

J’ai tout ce que je demande

Et je ne veux pas ce que je n’ai pas »

Sorti sur le même album que Nothing compares 2 U, le postulat est diamétralement opposé.

Sinead O’connor constitue un axiome tiré du stoïcisme, limitant le désir à ses modalités d’actions et refusant la fuite effrénée vers l’inassouvi. Ainsi, en comparaison « l’homme qui a l’âme en paix n’est importun ni à lui-même, ni aux autres ».

Loin de la doctrine d’Aristide de Sirène, instigateur de l’hédonisme, Epicure est un stoïcien tirant son référent de la représentation mythologique d’Hercule.

A la différence de celui-ci, il ne s’agit pas d’aller au-devant des situations périlleuses afin d’en assumer la gestion mais plutôt d’établir une retraite afin d’éviter l’expression des désagréments. 

Sinead O’connor, à l’image des stoïciens suit une route tracée dans le désert.

Sinead O’connor constitue son album sur le principe d’une invective destinée à constituer un rappel : Je ne dois pas vouloir ce que je n’ai pas.

Le stoïcisme, pour l’artiste, constitue la limitation des possibles à l’expression du produit des rencontres. Loin d’être un écart, il s’agit de constituer un dialogue intersubjectif basé sur la communion des volontés de faire émerger une œuvre.

L’émergence de l’œuvre à travers la rencontre passe le filtre sélectif de l’apparition d’une image possible, impossible ou compossible.

Il s’agit de faire émerger par l’expression de la volonté de puissance, la création comme expression de l’être consécutif d’un monde. 

L’œuvre impossible résulte de l’inadéquation avec les modalités de la création. 

L’œuvre compossible constitue l’ensemble des possibilités ne trouvant pas d’aboutissement.

L’œuvre possible constitue l’apparition au sens apollinien ou dionysiaque.

Sinead O’connor, a réalisé des collaborations avec nombre d’artistes comme Prince, Roger Waters, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, Richard Wright, Broken China, Massive Attack, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare.

III  JUM IN THE RIVER

Les appels téléphoniques

Me laissent toujours incertain,

Les choses ne sont jamais dites de leur plein gré

Je suis préoccupé

Je ne peux pas les faire sortir de mon esprit

Et si vous me disiez saute dans la rivière

Je le voudrais

Parce que ce serait vraisemblablement une bonne idée.

Sinead O’connor et Marco Pirroni

D’Héraclite à Parménide, le saut ne nous plonge pas dans la même rivière. 

Parménide constitue une pensée de l’être de l’unité entrant en contradiction avec Héraclite pour qui le devenir constitue le seul développement de nos potentialités au monde. « On ne se baigne jamais deux fois dans le même fleuve ». Javelot lancé de l’antiquité au XX° siècle, cette exigence a inspiré la pensée de Nietzsche. La nécessité esthétique passe par la communion dans l’apollinien pour la production plastique et dans le dionysiaque en ce qui concerne l’œuvre musicale développée dans la Naissance de la tragédie.

Ce corps à corps de l’artiste au spectateur prend l’art en interface comme la constitution d’une rencontre transcendant jusqu’à l’acmé.

« L’animation du corps n’est pas l’assemblage l’une contre l’autre – ni d’ailleurs la descente dans l’automate d’un esprit venu d’ailleurs, ce qui supposerait encore que le corps lui-même est sans dedans et sans « soi ». Un corps humain est là quand, entre voyant et visible, entre touchant et touché, entre un œil et l’autre, entre la main et la main, se fait une sorte de recroisement, quand s’allume l’étincelle du sentant – sensible, quand prend ce feu qui ne cessera pas de brûler, jusqu’à ce que tel accident du corps défasse ce que nul accident n’aurait suffire à faire ».

Merleau-Ponty, l’œil et l’esprit.

L’art est cette aptitude à faire paraître ces éléments hétérogènes qui n’auraient au-delà de son existence, pas de substance. Dans la communion, l’œuvre relève l’indicible de l’être.

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Après moi

Xavier-Aurelien Racine
Xavier-Aurélien Racine. 23/11/2022

I—uh—must go on standing
You can’t break that which isn’t yours
I—uh—must go on standing
I’m not my own, it’s not my choice

La-da-da, da-da-da

Be afraid of the lame
They’ll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They’ll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They’ll inherit your blood
Après moi, le déluge
After me comes the flood

I—uh—must go on standing
You can’t break that which isn’t-isn’t yours-yours
I—uh—must go on standing
I’m not my own, it’s not my choice

La-da-da, da-da-da
Ah, uh, uh, ah, uh
La.. da.. da…
La-da-da

Be afraid of the lame
They’ll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They’ll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They’ll inherit your blood
Après moi, le déluge
After me comes the flood

Be afraid of the lame
They’ll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They’ll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They’ll inherit your blood
Après moi, le déluge
After me the flood

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Be afraid of the lame
They’ll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They’ll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They’ll inherit your blood
Après moi, le déluge
After me comes the flood …the flood

Peter Gabriel

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Walflower

Xavier-Aurélien Racine, 16/11/2022

Six by six, from wall to wall
Shutters on the windows, no light at all
Damp on the floor you got damp in the bed
They’re trying to get you crazy get you out of your head
They feed you scraps and they feed you lies
To lower your defenses, no compromise
There’s nothing you can do, the day can be long
You mind is working overtime, your body’s not too strong

Hold on, hold on, hold on,
Hold on, hold on, hold on

They put you in a box so you can’t get heard
Let your spirit stay unbroken, may you not be deterred
Hold on, you have gambled with your own life
You faced the night alone
While the builders of the cages
Sleep with bullets, bars and stone
They do not see the road to freedom
That you build with flesh and bone

They take you out the light burns your eyes
To the talking room it’s not surprise
Loaded questions from clean white coats
Their eyes are all as hidden as their Hippocratic Oath
They tell you how to behave, behave as their guest
You want to resist them, you do your best
They take you to your limits, they take you beyond
For all that they are doing there’s no way to respond

Hold on, hold on
They put you in a box so you can’t get heard
Let your spirit stay unbroken, may you not be deterred
Hold on, you have gambled with your own life
You face the night alone
While the builders of the cages
Sleep with bullets, bars and stone
They do not see the road to freedom
That you build with flesh and bone

Though you may disappear, you’re not forgotten here
And I will say to you, I will do what I can do

You may disappear, you’re not forgotten here
And I will say you you, I will do what I can do
And I will do what I can do
I will do what I can do

Peter Gabriel

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Mother Of Violence

Xavier-Aurélien Racine, 09/11/2022

Walking the street with her naked feet
So full of rhythm, but I can’t find the beat
Snapping her heels, clicking her toes
Everybody knows just where she goes

Fear, fear, she’s the mother of violence
Making me tense to watch the way she breed
Fear, she’s the mother of violence
You know self-defense is all you need
It’s getting hard to breathe
It’s getting so hard to believe
To believe in anything at all

Mouth all dry, eyes bloodshot
Data stored on a microdot
Kicking the cloud with my moccasin shoes
TV dinner, TV news

‘Cause fear, fear, she’s the mother of violence
Don’t make any sense to watch the way she breed
Fear, she’s the mother of violence
Making me tense to watch the way she feed
The only way you know she’s there
Is the subtle flavor in the air
Getting hard to breathe
Getting hard to believe in anything at all
But fear

Peter Gabriel

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White Shadow

Xavier-Aurélien Racine, 02/11/2022

Ten coaches roll into the dust
Chrome windows turned to rust
Hang on inside, they know they must
Hanging on the green-backed words “In God We Trust”

No one knew if the spirit died
All wrapped to go like Kentucky Fried
Trying to read the flight of birds
Low on fuel, getting low on words

And she comes out like a white shadow
She comes out like a white shadow

Each one drawn to empty spaces
Outsiders, borderline cases
It’s hard to tell black from white
When you wake up in the middle of the night

Weighted down by the absence of sound
Broken now by the cry of a hound
Looking for movement within the haze
Light can be deceptive with her rays

And she comes out like a white shadow
And she comes out like a white shadow
She comes out like a white shadow

Peter Gabriel

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Fourteen Black Paintings

Xavier-Aurélien Racine, 26/10/2022

From the pain come the dream
From the dream come the vision
From the vision come the people
And from the people come the power
From this power come the change

Peter Gabriel

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I Griev

It was only one hour ago
It was all so different then
Nothing yet has really sunk in
Looks like it always did
This flesh and bone
It’s just the way that we had tied in
Now there’s no-one home

I grieve for you
You leave me
So hard to move on
Still loving what’s gone
They say life carries on
Carries on and on and on and on

The news that truly shocks is the empty, empty page
While the final rattle rocks its empty, empty cage
And I can’t handle this

I grieve for you
You leave me
Let it out and move on
Missing what’s gone
They say life carries on
They say life carries on and on and on

Life carries on
In the people I meet
In everyone that’s out on the street
In all the dogs and cats
In the flies and rats
In the rot and the rust
In the ashes and the dust
Life carries on and on and on and on
Life carries on and on and on

It’s just the car that we ride in
A home we reside in
The face that we hide in
The way we are tied in
As life carries on and on and on and on
Life carries on and on and on
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Did I dream this belief?
Or did I believe this dream?
Now I can find relief
I grieve


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More Than This

Xavier-Aurélien Racine, 28/09/2022

I woke up and the world outside was dark
All so quiet before the dawn
Opened up the door and walked outside
The ground was cold
I walked until I couldn’t walk anymore
To a place I’d never been
There was something stirring in the air
In front of me, I could see

More than this
More than this
So much more than this
There is something else there
When all that you had has all gone
And more than this
I stand
Feeling so connected
And I’m all there
Right next to you

It started when I saw the ship go down
I saw them struggle in the sea
And suddenly the picture disappears
In front of me
Now we’re busy making all our busy plans
On foundations built to last
But nothing fades as fast as the future
And nothing clings like the past, until we can see

More than this
More than this
So much more than this
There is something out there
More than this
It’s coming through
And more than this
I stand alone and so connected
And I’m all there
Right next to you

Oh then it’s alright
When with every day another bit falls away
Oh but it’s still alright, alright, alright
And like words together we can make some sense
Much more than this
Way beyond imagination
Much more than this
Beyond the stars
With my head so full
So full of fractured pictures
And I’m all there
Right next to you
So much more than this
There is something else there
When all that you had has all gone
And more than this
I’m alone
Feeling so connected
And I’m all there right next to you
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More than this
More than this
More than this

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