Découvrez les paroles de la chanson « Charmless Man » de Blur, accompagnées des explications de leur signification, d’anecdotes et de contexte.
Paroles de la chanson
I met him in a crowded room
Where people go to drink away their gloom
He sat me down and so began
The story of a charmless man
Educated the expensive way
He knows his claret from his beaujolais
I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray
But then nature didn't make him that way
He went….
He thinks his educated airs
Those family shares
Will protect him
That we'll respect him
He moves in circles of friends
Who just pretend
That they like him
He does the same to them
And when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man
He knows the swingers and their cavalry
Says he can get in anywhere for free
I began to go a little cross-eyed
And from this charmless man I just had to hide
He talks at speed
He gets nose bleeds
He doesn't see
His days are tumbling
Down upon him
And yet he tries so hard to please
He's just so keen
For you to listen
But no-one's listening
And when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man
He thinks his educated airs
Those family shares
Will protect him
That you'll respect him
And yet he tries so hard to please
He's just so keen
For you to listen
But no-one's listening
And when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man
Explication des paroles de Charmless Man de Blur
« Charmless Man » de Blur est une chanson qui critique avec ironie les comportements arrogants et superficiels des hommes de la classe aisée. Le thème principal de la chanson est la vanité et l’insignifiance de ceux qui se croient supérieurs aux autres. Créée lors de l’album « The Great Escape » en 1995, la chanson a été inspirée par les expériences de son auteur Damon Albarn avec des personnes prétentieuses et prétentieuses de la haute société britannique. Une anecdote intéressante sur cette chanson est que le clip vidéo a été réalisé par Damien Hirst, célèbre artiste contemporain, et il met en scène un homme qui déambule dans un monde extravagant mais vide de sens. En conclusion, « Charmless Man » est une critique acerbe des faux semblants et de l’egocentrisme dans la société moderne.