🔹𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰
𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴!🔹
Today I will continue talking to you
about this very interesting topic of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's
songs with similar lyrics. In this third part of the series it's the
turn of "𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒊" and
"𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒚".
Surely a lot of us know "𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒊"
very well.
It's - in my opinion - one of the most
beautiful & breathtaking songs 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐
has ever written. 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕 on drums,
𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍
on guitars and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏
𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 on vocals and piano, a
song with few elements but in it you can feel the magic that each one
contributed to the band, how they complemented and formed something
awesome and perfect at the same time. This gorgeous ballad was
released as a 𝑩-𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 of the
single "𝑺𝒍𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐
𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒈𝒆"(2001)
and was played live during the 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌
𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄
𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓 in 2001. A difference to the
studio version, when they performed it live, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏
used to add to the lyrics the line: "𝑪𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔
𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕
𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒕𝒐
𝒅𝒊𝒆".
Some time later, during the
𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈
𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔
𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓 in 2003, the band again included
"𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒊" in the setlist and
when they played it, they also added new words to the lyrics that
came from a song they had been working on during the recording of
𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈
𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔
album, but they did not manage to finish. This incomplete song three
years later we would know it by the name of "𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆
𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒚", that's
why this version of "𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒊"
with extra lyrics, fans use to call it "𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆
𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒊". Now, we are going to
listen to one of the only 7 times they played live the ""𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆
𝑳𝒆𝒏𝒊" version. This one was
recorded at a private concert in Paris in March 2003. Enjoy!!
✨🚀 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚
𝙇𝙚𝙣𝙞 🚀✨
🎶 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬
🎶
I kneel before her,
Beneath this frozen sky
Beneath her shoulder,
Beneath her evil eye
She towers over this male who is a fly
My sci-fi lullaby
I kneel before her,
Beneath this frozen sky
I beg below her,
My limbs are paralyzed
She feels much softer
Than any kind of guy
My sci-fi lullaby
Beside her
Astride her
I die inside her
Forever
And ever
She's born to mesmer
It's sacred
Don't break it
Don't let go
Let me die
Cross my heart
And hope to die
⭑♪•*♬.•☆•.⭒.•♫•♬•*☆*•♫•♬•.⭒.•☆•.♬*•♪⭑
Now we land on the '𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒕
𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅',
with "𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆
𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒚", in
words of 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 itself :
" 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜
𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚠𝚊𝚜
𝚊 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚓𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚢
𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢
𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚎𝚕𝚝
𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝
𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍
𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎
𝚜𝚔𝚢 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚢."
𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 said:
"𝚂𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎
𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚔𝚎𝚢 𝚒𝚜
𝚊 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚢
𝚝𝚘 𝚞𝚜! 𝚆𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝
𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠
𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚒𝚝 𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚍
𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚢
𝚒𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚍. 𝚆𝚎
𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘
𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚒𝚝
𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍
𝚂𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐
𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙶𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚜
𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛
𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜
𝚒𝚝 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚍
𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖. 𝚆𝚎 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍
𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜
𝚠𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚗'𝚝
𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎
𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚞𝚗𝚎𝚍
𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜
𝚝𝚘 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚝𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜."
The band added string arrangements - made by the very talented 𝑭𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒆 - and the rhythmic base
of the song came from one day that 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕 was bored and
he began to drumming on a bicycle that was around there. They
experimented without limits until they achieved that alluring,
intriguing and unusual atmosphere that surrounds the song, a result
that would even surprise them.
𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕 stated:
"[...] 𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗
𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚊𝚝
𝚒𝚝, 𝚒𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗'𝚝
𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎
𝚊 𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕
𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖
𝚞𝚜.“
Finally, the sound of "𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆
𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒚" fitted
perfectly with the dark vibe of the next 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's
album,"𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔"(2006), so it
was released as the track number 4. Let's watch to the band
'𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈
𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆'
while they perform live this song.
✨🚀 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚
𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙮 🐒🚀
🎶 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬
🎶
Space monkey in the place to be
Riding in a rocket to a planet of sound
Shooting the moon, playing dominoes in
drag
An increase in population of a hundred
percent
Space monkey in the place to be
With a chemical peel and a picture of
Mary
Out on a limb in the carnival of me
Raising the temperature one hundred
degrees
We're sown together
She's born mesmer
Beside astride her
I die inside her
Space monkey in the place to be
A mass of contradictions in a golden
frame
Raising the roof in a calamity way
Completely meretricious of a poke in
the eye
Space monkey in the place to be
Talk of the town with a Colombian rock
Out on a limb in the carnival of me
Raising the temperature one hundred
degrees
We're sown together
She's born mesmer
Beside astride her
I die inside her
It's far too sacred
Don't ever fake it
And don't, and don't, and don't let me
down
Like you let me down before
Space monkey in the place to be
With some free-association and a hole
in her head
Out on a limb in the carnival of me
Raising the temperature one hundred
degrees
We're sown together
She's born mesmer
Beside astride her
I die inside her
It's far too sacred
Don't ever fake it
And don't, and don't, and don't let me
down
Like you let me down before
⭑♪•*♬.•☆•.⭒.•♫•♬•*☆*•♫•♬•.⭒.•☆•.♬*•♪⭑
📷 Photo credits:
Pic 1: Screenshots from the live videos of the songs / Edit made by Rita
Pic 1: Screenshots from the live videos of the songs / Edit made by Rita
Pic 2: Nulle part alleurs (NPA)
Pic 3: Oscar Tejeda
Pic 3: Oscar Tejeda
Post by Rita
