Lekkere muziek van nu komt van de Ierse groep Villagers. Memoir is een heerlijk lied van de groep rond singer/songwriter Conor O’Brien. De samenzang maakt het nog smakelijker. Het nummer komt van het album Where Have You Been All My Life (2016). O’Brien schreef het in 2011 op verzoek van de Franse zangeres & actrice Charlotte Gainsbourg. Klik hier voor haar versie.

Memoir
City lights are beckoning,
the sirens softly call.
All the fantasists and fetishists
are preparing the ball.
You’ve been stuck here on the doorstep
with nothing to forsake.
Well you might as well be anyone’s to take.

So I give myself to strangers,
like I gave myself to you.
But the tenderness I felt,
has been replaced by something new.
And in the orgy I can vaguely hear
the outline of your call.
Well I might as well be anyone’s at all.

Every memory is sailing
to the kingdom of your soul.
As you patiently await
I lose all sense of self control.
You were the lighthouse to my broken boat,
but I’ve left you behind.
Now I might as well be anyone’s to find.

Take my body, take it from me.
It is not worthy of your memory.
Take my body, take it from me.
It is not worthy of your memory.

I remember you undressing
as I set myself on fire.
And the funeral was quick
as I lay lifeless on your pyre.
It’s a kind of desperation,
and it’s just something you can’t fake.
Oh I might as well be anyone’s to take.

So I give myself to strangers,
like I gave myself to you.
But the unity I felt
has been replaced by something new.
Now I am Helen I am Mary Jane,
I am Robert I am Paul.
Oh I might as well be anyone at all.

Said I might as well be anyone at all.
Oh I might as well be anyone at all.
Oh I might as well be anyone at all.
Anyone at all.