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30something

by Antoine Bustros

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1.
30something 03:17
30SOMETHING It’s 30something time in space, time to start the evening’s race with words and images of self twirling. It's 30something dreams that fill with dread of time that's still there, still well ahead time's burning. The 30something images of self like bric-a-brac upon the shelf are me, warts and all, plain old me. It's 30something time to die and bury the bric-a-brac lie a few intriguing warts won't do. Like love maybe all what is left a mirror of the laid-back self I would have liked but never learned to earn it. It's 30something time to go a little out of self, you know, just far enough to dance upon its grave. It's 30something time to sing the death of time, its sting, and love the song of life without a name. It’s 30something time in space, time to start the evening’s race with words and images of self twirling. It's 30something time to go a little out of self, you know, just far enough to dance upon its grave. It's 30something time to sing the death of time, its sting, and love the song of life without a name. Lyrics: Gillman Noonan & antoine bustros
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All is Right 04:23
ALL IS RIGHT We swam the other day I dove with you for words I could not find all in the mind. Fading colours of my past so fixed for long, so bright, now shading into night. But yours still forming like the rays of dawn your finger on the canvas waiting for the light, for the first stroke, the first bold stroke of the colours of your life. And if I fear for you and lie awake, and see the dark shapes through the light, all is right. all is, right? For the fisherman says - and he should know - there's no such thing as status quo. In a stream the other day we watched the play of things alive and dead, all in the head. I pretended the past is a thing alive O, still deep in moonlit sleep. But yours only now wells in your eyes, your glance a knife cleaving the tangled web of cliché so blithe, so astonishingly blithe, revolving. And if I fear for you and lie awake, and see the dark shapes through the light, all is right. all is, right? For the fisherman says - and he should know - there's no such thing as status quo. And if I fear for you and lie awake, and see the dark shapes through the light, all is right. all is, right? For the dying man said - and he should know - there's no such thing as status quo. From nightmare fears I woke to sanity and lay awake. Like ghostly writing in a dream of life I've never lived or can't recall now holding me in thrall. And thoughts of you like water on my face, dashed up in mockery of all my silly vows. It's only me, but still you'll leap across the stream from where I roam. And if I fear for you and lie awake, and see the dark shapes through the light, all is right. all is, right? For the dying man said - and he should know - there's no such thing as status quo. Lyrics: Gillman Noonan & antoine bustros
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Ciel béant 04:07
CIEL BEANT Le café chaud tremble et fume au bord du pare-brise le moteur ronfle sur la route où me dirigent les lignes qui avancent indéfiniment Les journaux, les papiers éparpillés que je piétine les quatre vitres montées, la fumée dans la cabine me font tourner la tête comme un flottement Sur la route les heures latentes sous la voûte d'un ciel béant s'égoutte le temps qui ruisselle qui s'enfuit déjà A ma montre cinq heure du matin ici c'est encore tôt bien qu'elle soit déjà très loin je sens son souffle chaud son haleine dans ma bouche le grain de sa peau Le décalage horaire avait déjà réglé mon sort je voyais l'océan, le survolais encore et la cassette de Gainsbourg qu'elle faisait jouer toujours Sur la route les heures latentes sous la voûte d'un ciel béant s'ajoute le chant des sirènes qui hurlent dans la nuit Le café chaud tremble et fûme au bord du pare-brise le moteur ronfle, la route me grise et me sépare de ton emprise Sur la route les heures latentes sous la voûte d'un ciel béant s'égoutte le temps qui ruisselle J'ai oublié son nom Lyrics: antoine bustros
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ALIZARINE CARMINE Your nicotine mouth on my lips The yellow shade left in your eyes And as a compromise You rock me in your dream for a while It's such a wondrous life It's such a wondrous life Such a wondrous life Such a marvel It's such a wondrous life Alizarine Carmine Coz in a middle of a dream You wouldn't just believe it could be over If I could paint with a colour memories that I host Like a warm breeze on a barren coast It's such a wondrous life It's such a wondrous life Such a wondrous life Such a marvel It's such a wondrous life Alizarine Carmine An extra blanket on my bed With waving sorrows left instead Of your lushing sighs Waving back with a sorry smile Another hero on the edge While smiling faced with a crumbled pledge In time will get to know there's no tomorrow If could paint with a colour memories that I host Like a warm breeze on a barren coast It's such a wondrous life It's such a wondrous life Such a wondrous life Such a marvel Yes, Such a wondrous life Alizarine Carmine Lyrics: Máire Noonan & antoine bustros
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LA PEAU D'HÉLÈNE J'ai l'habitude de me noyer la tête dans la mer de Chine de passer ma vie sur un bateau qui ne connaît pas l'eau et je me fais chier à chaque moment j'aurais presqu'envie de casser quelque chose encore mais je sais que je le ferai pas J'avais senti tout au début déjà que c'était un peu drôle de la voir se parfumer, s'égayer, émaner et sourire pour aller sentir bon ailleurs et j'aurais juré que ce matin en se réveillant elle m'a appelé d'un autre nom Au fond je me fous de la peau d'Hélène seulement, je lui ai trop souvent dit que je l'aime ni ses tempêtes, ni ses dentelles je voudrais qu'elle sache que je veux plus d'elle mais j'arrive pas à lui dire c'est plus facile de mentir oh non! Mais je continue quand même à la regarder aller et venir et je me dis comme ça, que vraiment, elle est pas si mal que je devrais fermer les yeux et puis ne rien dire faut pas coincer un animal faut pas coincer un animal Mais plus d'une fois j'ai essayé de m'affranchir en laissant passer ces détails mais au lieu de m'aider à me contenir ça me tord encore plus les entrailles Mais je n'y peux rien ça me brise les ailes quand d'autres yeux se posent sur elle qu'une autre bouche caresse ses mains qu'un autre visage respire ses seins je voudrais qu'elle soit disparue qu'on ne se soit jamais connu oh non! Oui, je me fous de la peau d'Hélène même si je lui ai toujours dit que je l'aime même ses reflets de cheveux miel de toute façon je ne rêve plus d'elle Je voudrais qu'elle disparaisse que jamais plus on ne se connaisse oh non! Lyrics: antoine bustros
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LES CHOSES CHANGENT Quand je lève la tête et je m'aperçois que le soleil brille alors que j'oscille, fragile, debout sur une aiguille j'sais que les choses changent j'sais que les choses changent Je fais les cent pas à pas sur des nasses d'argile et les feuilles des arbres tombent sans plus faire de vrilles c'est que les choses changent les choses changent Passer quelques heures les yeux rivés à l'horizon explique beaucoup mieux pourtant sans donner de raison que les choses changent que les choses changent Un tremblement de terre ça veut pas dire que la terre tremble ça veut dire qu'à l'intérieur de soi y a plus de temple c'est que les choses changent les choses changent Si c'est vrai que l'euphorie c'est dans la tête que ça bouille le bonheur dépend toujours un peu du poids des couilles même si les choses changent même si les choses changent Le bourreau n'attend pas le signal du condamné quand on est masqué on ne craint pas les mirroirs est-ce que les choses changent? est-ce que les choses changent? Entre deux personnes les règles c'est jamais pour toujours on les établit seulement pour tracer son parcours c'est que les choses changent les choses changent. Lyrics: antoine bustros
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Summer Rain 03:43
This song was written during the Israeli military operation called - for some incomprehensible and cynical reason - "Summer Rain" in June-July 2006. It was the first major military operation against the population of Gaza since the Israeli settlers had left in 2005. It left over 200 Gaza Palestinians dead, among them 44 children. Since then there have been several further military assaults of a much larger scale of death, injuries and destruction. Needless to say, I dedicate this song to the people of Gaza with much love. SUMMER RAIN Two pictures haunt my mind like holograms that come and go before my eyes The one a boy a man a park a ball a dappled green beside a pond Like in a film or in a dream without a sound But opening wide a curtain in the sky to show the march of human kind The man the boy the ball the green of life from eons past who kicks the man kicks the man kicks the ball kicks the ball away As patient as a rock the man stands waiting for the boy Summer rain summer rain over Gaza summer rain oh summer rain summer rain over Gaza Except for bloody mist that hangs up in the air about the place where she had stood yet why should I remember her Who stood upon a beach and simply waved a bangle in her hair yet why should I remember her Summer rain summer rain over Gaza summer rain oh summer rain summer rain over Gaza Two pictures haunt my mind like holograms that come and go before my eyes And when I see the one the man the boy I see them all and when I march for all I see the girl yet why should I remember her oh why should I remember her Summer rain summer rain over Gaza summer rain oh summer rain summer rain over Gaza Lyrics: Gillman Noonan & antoine bustros
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Free hands 03:08
Free hands change Note: This track was composed and recorded for the short ficition film 'Honey and Ashes'. (Producer: Springate-Combs Productions, Montréal; Directed by Carolyn Combs.) Thank you Carolyn for having inspired this piece with your film!
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My insanity 02:57
MY INSANITY My dream my reality That's what you are My health my insanity Baby you can drive my car I work, I eat, I run Hours spent in the sun Lightheaded, lighthearted Nothing else to blame, just hasn't been the same Since we have parted Just monkeys, like monkeys grooming each other Having no bother Searching through your heart The key Now what have I done And where have you gone my love What can we do to save the light We'll end up We'll end up We'll end up in a zoo Silence in my dreams Words fail reality Searching for other means While all I try to do, is hide from you My Insanity Lyrics: Máire Noonan & antoine bustros
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LES YEUX LE DISENT Parfois ce sont les yeux qui disent ce que n'ont pas pu dire les mots c'est pour ça qu'on les cache ils en disent un peu trop On n'arrive pas toujours à suivre lorsque le regard s'esquive on finit par un geste à faire comprendre le reste Faut pas hésiter à rire quand vient le temps de mentir c'est pas toujours la peine de faire valoir ses raisons Parce que l'intention qu'on voile qu'on la masque bien ou mal c'est jamais pour longtemps une idée, ça se sent Lorsque les idées s'enlisent quand les moments s'éternisent à travers le silence on fait des confidences Pour meubler le temps qui nage chacun habite son visage même derrière une moue les yeux nous disent tout Faut pas hésiter à rire quand vient le temps de mentir c'est pas toujours la peine de faire valoir ses raisons Parce que l'intention qu'on voile qu'on la masque bien ou mal c'est jamais pour longtemps une idée, ça se sent Lyrics: antoine bustros
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Christmas song MISTLETOE WRAP Shop window lights children’s delight fairyland of things Bag full of gifts tight in your fists again the season brings Oh you can buy me the world in a mistletoe wrap you can light up the tallest tree but what I, what I want on Christmas morn is your Christmas love for me Carrols ring out santas about shoppers ticking theirs lists make up your mind what’s yet to find so little time to please Now you can buy me the world in a mistletoe wrap you can light up the tallest tree but what I, what I want on Christmas morn is your Christmas love for me [dialogue] In dark of night a star so bright rises for all to see shepherds awake the clear dawn breaks a newborn world is here Now you can buy me the world in a mistletoe wrap you can light up the tallest tree but what I, what I want on Christmas morn is your Christmas love for me Well you can buy me the world in a mistletoe wrap you can light up the tallest tree but what I, what I want on Christmas morn is your Christmas love for me ... Lyrics: Gillman Noonan & antoine bustros
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Christmas song DARKNESS TO LIGHT Darkness to light water to wine winter to spring evil to grace Christ in the miracle for the human race Pilgrim man upon the plain what the purpose of his pain why the hunger in his breast for more than wheat for more than shelter from the beast Pilgrim woman burdened low what the promise here below For more than life for tribal strife Darkness to light water to wine winter to spring evil to grace Christ in the miracle for the human race Pilgrim children mouths to feed why play this game of greed of I have more of I can slam the door of I can’t face tomorrow Wise men have come following their star let joy ring out from near and far Christ in the miracle for the human race What’s the word from stable birth bolt of lightning struck the earth what infant hand that can frame the symmetry of man Darkness to light water to wine winter to spring evil to grace Christ in the miracle of jesus divine Christ in the miracle for the human race Lyrics: Gillman Noonan & antoine bustros

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Enregistrées au cours des ans, ces chansons ont été conçues au cours de voyages, pendant des séjours dans différentes villes. Je ne peux remercier suffisamment les musiciens qui ont joués sur ces plages, qui ont été mises de côté trop longtemps. La technologie contemporaine leur donne un nouveau souffle. Je veux souligner la finesse du travail de Alain Bellaïche qui donne à ses parties de guitare tant de saveur et de naturel. Je tiens aussi à relever la musicalité qui donne aux lignes de trompette de mon compère Benoît Piché une présence riche, et toujours à sa place. Les paroles que j'ai signées avec Gillman et Máire Noonan sont principalement leurs idées. Les images évoquées n'auraient pas vu le jour sans leur précieuse inspiration.
Enfin, les pièces ont été enregistrées par différents techniciens. Leurs noms sont mentionnés en dessous des paroles des chansons. Je les remercie pour leur haute compétence et leur goût sûr.

The songs were recorded over the years while traveling and living across various cities. I can't thank enough the musicians who participated on these tracks that were forgotten for too long. Technology helps give them a new life. I want to thank especially Alain Bellaïche for his great, always appropriate and inspired guitar parts, and Benoît Piché for the exquisite presence of his artful trumpet. The lyrics that are co-signed are mainly authored by Gillman and Máire Noonan, whose father and daughter inspiration, respectively, has helped capture images I would have never brought to life on my own.
I would also like to thank the various sound engineers who recorded these songs. Their names are mentionned under the lyrics of each song. They have done a great work that is at last available for everyone to hear.

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released February 22, 2015

All music composed by antoine bustros.
Lyrics by antoine bustros, Gillman Noonan and Máire Noonan
Photos: Máire Noonan

Musicians, vocals, and recording credits are listed on individual tracks.

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Antoine Bustros Montreal, Québec

Birth and early childhood in Cairo.
Later childhood and adolescence in Montreal, Canada. Lived in Dublin, Los Angeles, and Toronto. Now lives in Montreal, where he writes film music. Also founded the Ensemble Ulysse for which he writes chamber music.
The songs from 30Something were previously performed under 'Tarek B'.
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