Approximately 18 years ago, I wrote a song under a tree at a park, in the Parisian suburb, it was called Fine.
The song at the time, wasn't meant to be anything special, and it became with time my favourite song. Funny to think, that it was the first time I was happy with a song I wrote, and it helped me realize that maybe, in a near future, I could have my first album.
I recorded a first studio version in France, in Paris around 2007. The drummer was Sebastien Drummeaux (who became a singer later on), and two of the best keyboardists in the world came to record on a fender rhodes, and an electric piano.
Cedric Hanriot, who just started his career as a jazz pianist accepted to play on my track, I was ecstatic.
After doing the French TV show in 2009, something in me told me to go record my first album in South Africa, where I ended up recording more than my first album, and spent 10 years there.
I also recorded a second version of "Fine", with this time a nihilistic approach to the song, and some amazing trumpets played by Marcus Wyatt, a killer bass by Carlos Mombelli.
In retrospect, I lost a little bit of the essence of the song, by letting such personnalities improvise on my song, changing its core.
I still enjoy the result:
My only regret, was that the lyrics still did not make always sense at the time. I rarely play this song, but I decided to give it a new look, with everything that I've learnt in my life, and nothing to prove.
One sentence sums up what the song is about:
"I can't stand dreamers, I can't bear believers"
This song was always about losing faith, I just did not know it 18 years ago. There is a moment in life, when you've just lost all hopes, lost all reasons, and when someone ask you, you just say: I am Fine
I woke up at 5am, got myself ready for a session next to the river, that you can hear in the back. I am facing a group of deer, very far next to the forest facing us, the temperature is approaching 0 degrees c
There is another live version of the song, when a donkey is interupting me and start singing, you hear it too much, just enough to crack me up, I might do an audio NFT with it, or a Video NFT.
Fine
Ed Privat
I am so fine to be such a wreck
So fine, no matter what I am, it's fake
So blind to catch what I've ever wanna be
So fine, I am just pretending to be free
So fine, so fine
I am so fine yeah
I am so fine, so fine, I am so fine.
I am so glad
I am not lying to me no no
So glad
Noone here around me I am so free
I can't stand dreamers
I can't bare believers
So glad, I am so glad
I'm so fine, I am so glad
I'm so fine I am so glad
Because I'll be fine
Because I'll be fine
Because I'll be fine
I am so glad
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