Drinking wine… in the afternoon

C’est une chanson du groupe écossais Franz Ferdinand.  Comme quoi on ne boit pas que du whisky dans cette contrée. Ca cause d’amour l’après-midi. Et de vin, bien sûr.

Elle date de 2006 est est signée Alex Kapranos. Régalez-vous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A9pJH0uxe4

So this is summer and the calor gas is running low
But I don’t mind, I’m doing things and I’m doing them with you

Well, you know he’s gonna want his rent tonight
But we’ll have to tell him how to swallow
All the rent this month

So summer stains the sky with inky swirls that bring the thunder low
But I don’t mind, I’m doing things and doing them with you

And if you’re smart you’ll put that book back down
You’ll drag me to the floor
Drag me down for more

Drinking wine
Drinking wine in the afternoon
Do-do do-dooo

Tomorrow’s Thursday, that’s my day of work
That’s my day of walking up the merry hill road making up
Some lie about some job applied for

Well, I’ve been drinking wine
Well, I’ve been drinking wine in the afternoon

Do-do, do-dooo

Fifty little filters left their filthy buts behind
Left their blackened heads down
In the ashes that’s the last before

I pulled apart and placed within the papers
For a drag of five deserves a second life
Deserves a second life

Don’t we all, don’t we all
Don’t we all, don’t we all, all

Love drinking wine
Love drinking wine in the afternoon
Do-do do-dooo

Love drinking wine
Love drinking wine in the afternoon
Do-do do-dooo

Bottle of wine, bottle of wine, bottle of wine, bottle of wine
Bottle of wine, bottle of wine, bottle of wine, bottle of wine
Bottle of wine, bottle of wine, bottle of wine, bottle of wine

Un peu lancinant et nostalgique, non ? Allez, on la réécoute ? En HQ cette fois

NB : trouvé sur le site TASTAVIN qui publie ses dix meilleurs chansons sur le vin (nous y reviendrons)parmi lesquelles

Red red wine de Neil Diamond, chanté aussi par UB40, Bob Marley…

Ce vin rouge là n’est plus le compagnon des après-midi amoureuses, mais celui du coeur blessé qui seul lui permet d’oublier

Red, red wine, go to my head,
Make me forget that I
Still need her so.

Red, red wine, it’s up to you.
All I can do, I’ve done;
But mem’ries won’t go.
No, mem’ries won’t go.

I’d have thought that with time
Thoughts of her would leave my head.
I was wrong, and I find
Just one thing makes me forget.

Red, red wine, stay close to me.
Don’t let me be alone;
It’s tearing apart
My blue, blue heart.

I’d have thought that with time
Thoughts of her would leave my head.
I was wrong, and I find
Just one thing makes me forget.

Red, red wine, stay close to me.
Don’t let me be alone;
It’s tearing apart
My blue, blue heart

Voila qui fait penser à two more bottles of wine, ou encore à lonely wine

On ne peut pas terminer l’article sans citer Red wine in the afternoon qui n’est pas une synthèse des précédents. Ici le vin est le compagnon des échanges entre copains, assis au soleil de l’automne. Le voici en live par Jono Manson.

Now the nights are getting colder
And winter’s coming soon
I’m gonna sit out in the sunshine
Drinking red wine in the afternoon

We can talk about the old days
Or dream about the days to come
Celebrating in the old way
Drinking red wine in the afternoon
Red wine in the afternoon

Steal a little guilty pleasure
Steam up the windows of our room
Then we sleep right through the morning
Start drinking red wine in the afternoon

I’m just relaxing with my baby
After we done did the do
There ain’t nothing we like better
Than drinking red wine in the afternoon
Red wine in the afternoon

Morning rush is over
Clouds go drifting by
A lazy sun is riding low
Across the autumn sky

There’s a bonehead in the basement
He’s barking like a big baboon
But the bottle is adjacent
I’m drinking red wine in the afternoon

So if you want to come on by
We’d be delighted if you do
You can bring all your relations
We’re drinking red wine in the afternoon
Red wine in the afternoon
Red wine in the afternoon