Jan 1 - La Mer

"La Mer" is the eleventh track of the left disc on The Fragile or Halo 14. When I first heard this song, I thought "An instrumental? From Trent? WTF?" As I listened to the bass line I could hear an infusion of songs... The piano and the old-timey piano threw me off... It sounded like one of those play pianos from back in the '70's that we played pretend with. Then I heard a woman softly saying things in French and that threw me off too. Then the drums come in and make the beat even more so... Different! Then to top it all off, I could hear "Into The Void" and I love that song. I truly love this song and it is a good way to start off this tribute to Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails.

I have discovered that the lyrics are in Creole French:

Et il est un jour arrivé
Marteler le ciel
Et marteler la mer

Et la mer avait embrassé moi
Et la délivré moi de ma cellule

Rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant

The translation goes like this:

And when the day arrives
I'll become the sky
And I'll become the sea

And the sea will come to kiss me
For I am going
Home

Nothing can stop me now

There is an alternate, more literal translation of the lyrics:

And the day has arrived
To thresh the sky
And to thresh the sea

And the sea has embraced me
And it has dispensed me from my cage

Nothing can stop me now

Damn right nothing can stop me now!!!