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The most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard
It's from a song called: “Comme un sage” (Like a wise man) from a French Canadian band called Harmonium (1972–1978). The album was release in 1976.
I’ll give 50% of the Steem Dollars to Serge Fiori, the lead singer of Harmonium. I’ll also invite him to join Steemit. Serge is perfectly bilingual.
Serge and Harmonium are so important to so many people. It means so much for me to be sharing this with all of you and inviting Serge to join Steemit.
Comme un sage
- C'est toujours pour l'amour qu'on devient fou
- Ça doit être plein d'amour parce que c'est plein d'fous tout partout
- Comme si on avait tous peur de se l'dire
- Qu'on a du mal à naître à se regarder mourir
(5 autres paragraphes)
- L'amour se prend un corps pour voyager
- Mais quand il vient chez nous, y'a peur de déranger
- Comme s'il était seul à pouvoir tout changer
- C'est fou quand on aime, la mort n'a jamais existé
Translation of the most beautiful thing I've ever heard
- It’s always because of love that we become crazy
- There must be lot of love, cause there’s crazies everywhere
- It’s as if we were all scared of telling ourselves (each others)
- That we’re having a hard time being born looking at ourselves dying (looking at each others)
5 more paragraphs
- Love takes himself a body to travel
- But when he comes in mine he’s scared he’s bothering
- It’s as if he was the only one with the power to change everything
- It’s crazy when we love, death never existed
Harmonium, my Love
I was in my late teen when I first heard this song. The song, album and Harmonium had such an important impact on my life and philosophy. I would have a really hard time to describe how profound the whole album of L’heptade is. Translating each and every words would be a good start, but even then, some of the beauty would inevitably be lost.
Wikipedia excerpt about L’heptade
L'Heptade is composed of seven core songs, in order: Comme un fou (Like a mad man), Chanson noire (Black song), Le premier ciel (The first heaven), L'exil (The exile), Le corridor (The hallway), Lumières de vie (Lights of life), and Comme un sage (Like a wise man). These seven songs were mainly written by the band leader Serge Fiori. The title, heptade, is the compound of two Greek affixes, hept- (seven) and -ade, which expresses both the notion of group (décade, pléiade) and epic movement (as in Iliad). Fiori mentioned, at the beginning of the live album of L'Heptade, that the album, framed in seven songs, was evoking the journey of a man in one day through seven levels of consciousness. Clues that the whole journey occurs in a single day are given on the original album. For example, a rapid sigh of a man waking up, followed by steps on a cracked wooden floor can be heard in the prologue, the first musical movement preceding the first core song. A man preparing to sleep can be heard in the finale of the album.
Harmonium you came in my life and changed everything
There’s so many great things that could be said about Harmonium. There’s so many things that is still left unsaid and unknown about the band. I hope Serge will join us on Steem, so he can share some of it.
Conclusion
I really enjoyed sharing this article with you guys. My last Steem post dates more than 2 weeks ago. I can’t even really remember how exhilarating and scary it can be to post here and even though it can be scary, the good we get from it makes all fears as if they never existed.
All that being said, Steemit is way beyond what have been expressed about it so far. It seems like, there’s nothing Steem can't better or totally revolutionize.
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Dozens of votes were cast during the writing of this article and even more by other people. Since Steem started, I’ve invested more than $5,000 in Steem and I’ve made a lot more posting and price appreciation. Thank you Steem!
More on harmonium:
Harmonium's album “Si on avait besoin d’une 5ième saisons” is considered the 36th Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time according to Rolling Stone Magazine
Excerpt from Wikipedia: In 2007, all three of Harmonium's studio albums were named among the 100 greatest Canadian albums of all time in Bob Mersereau's book The Top 100 Canadian Albums. They were the only francophone albums from Quebec named to the list besides Jean-Pierre Ferland's Jaune.
Comme un sage is a very mellow song as it represent the 7th level of human consciousness, the most peaceful and blissful state. This is according to the album's concept.
References
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- TSS #1 @Dantheman said one of the most inspiring thing I've ever heard (Dan Larimer is chief technology officer of Steemit, founder of Bitshares, the technology behind Steem)
- TSS #2 Bitcoin 10 facts everyone should know
- TSS #3 The ultimate guide to Steemit
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