흑인의 깊이와 백인의 부드러움을 갖춘 감성적인 보컬의 싱어송라이터 '코린 베일리 래 (Corinne Bailey Rae)'의 두번째 앨범 [The Sea]
[The Sea]의 앨범 커버 디자인에서 그녀는 햇살을 듬뿍 받고 있지만, 아픔과 고통 속에 물들어 있기도 하다. 이루 말할 수 없는 아픔으로 탄생한 최고의 히트작. - The Observer
곧 발매될 그녀의 앨범 [The Sea]를 한번만 들어도 아티스트의 음악적 변화가 드러나는 것을 절실히 느낄 수 있다. 사라진 것은 폭발적으로 판매되던 데뷔 시절의 물 흐르는 듯 편안함이고, 그 자리엔 깊은 감성으로 흠뻑 젖은 그녀만의 개인적인 발라드가 대신하고 있다는 것… 곡들은 믿기 어려울 정도로 슬프면서 동시에 굉장히 희망적이란 것… 단순한 공연이 아니었다. 노래 하나 하나가 대단한 힘을 갖고 있다는 것을 우리에게 다시 한번 상기시키는 숨막히는 순간이었다. - Evening Standard ★★★★★
코린 베일리 래는 허물을 벗고 매니큐어를 지운 듯 꾸밈없는 느낌으로 새로운 파도를 타고 온 것이 분명하다… 때로는 작고 멍든 날개로, 때로는 거대하고도 날카롭게 날개 짓는다. 폭발하는 듯한 휘몰아치는 신비주의가 흘러 넘치고 있다. - The Times ★★★★
가슴 아픈 사별로 인해 코린 베일리 래가 영혼을 울리는 듯한 보컬리스트로 변했다는 것은 너무나도 흔하고 뻔한 말일 것이다. 그러나 그녀의 데뷔 때 존재하지 않았던 그 어떤 감정의 깊이가 절실히 느껴진다. 산들바람 부는 듯한 상쾌함이 군데군데 존재하고 있다. ‘Paris Nights / New York Mornings’과 같은 멜로디들은 ‘그러나 삶은 계속 된다’라는 의미를 강하게 비춰주고 있다. 그러나 이번 공연이 진정 감동적이었던 것은 그 어떠한 이유보다는 그녀가 전달하는 어두운 그림자 속의 우울함과 고통이 아니었을까…? 무대를 떠나면서 그녀가 남긴 가슴을 에는 멜로디들은 좀처럼 사라지지 않는다. - The Guardian ★★★★
그녀의 음악은 슬픔과 애도를 무겁게 짊어지고 있지만, 그녀의 곡들 사이 사이 코린의 미소가 보인다. 디바들이 흔히 보여주는 꾸민듯한 가식적인 태도는 어디에도 없다. 이번엔 진정한 스타를 보았다. - Mail On Sunday ★★★★
곧 나올 그녀의 두 번째 앨범 [The Sea]는 2010년도에 발매될 앨범들 중 가장 기대가 큰 앨범이다. 오늘 밤의 공연을 놓고 판단하자면 앞으로 12개월 동안 이 앨범보다 더 대단한 음반은 없을 것이다. - The Independent ★★★★
처음으로 이렇게 매혹적인 곡들을 들을 수 있게 되었다는 것은 크나큰 영광이자 특권이다. 2월에 발매될 [The Sea]에 마음껏 빠져들라. 물의 온도가 감미롭다. - News of the World ★★★★★
새롭게 돌아온 코린 베일리 래는 두 번 태어난 가수다. 신곡 'I'll Do It All Again'은 라디오헤드(Radiohead)를 부르는 로린 힐 (Lauryn Hill)을 아주 잠깐 동안 연상케 한다. 그녀는 날개치듯 손을 움직이다 얼어버린다… 라디오 속의 긴 침묵이 흐르는 듯 하지만 그녀는 다시 돌아와 헤드라이트 앞에 선 암사슴처럼 울려 퍼지는 박수의 현실을 조용히 받아들인다. - The Observer
5명으로 구성된 밴드의 반주를 동반한 그녀의 무대는 기대이상의 생동감으로 넘치고 있다. 가장 섬세하면서도 슬픔으로 물들여진 곡들은 바위가 서로 부딪쳐 폭발하는 듯한 음색을 지니고 있다. 마치 마지막에 폭파하는 핑크 플로이드 (Pink Floyd)의 에픽처럼 말이다. 코린 베일리 래의 사랑스러운, 신이 내린 목소리는 물결에 떠내려가는 듯 하다. - Daily Telegraph
[The Sea]에서 들려주는 놀라운 음악적 성숙함은 전 세계적으로 끊임없는 박수를 받을만한 충분한 가치가 있다. 섬세한 편곡과 살며시 고개를 내미는 멜로디들, 동시에 심장을 깊숙이 찌르는 고통의 아름다움 속 그녀의 목소리는 예전의 그 꾸밈없던 투명함보다는 간절함이 더 느껴진다. 그녀의 사생활은 좌절감에 내리막길로 무너졌을지 모르지만, 그만큼 코린 베일리 래의 음악은 한층 더 빠르게 진보할 수 있었던 것이 아닐까? - Evening Standard .... ....
He's a real live wire He's the best of his kind Wait till you see those eyes He dresses like this different scene He'll kiss you make you feel sixteen What's it even mean?
Are you here Are you here Are you here, cause my heart recalls that It all seems the same It all feels the same
Pick me up
It's hard to recall the taste of summer When everywhere around, the chill of winter It gets so far away
Are you here
And he comes to lay me down in a garden of tuberose's When he comes around there's nothing more to imagine Just tuberose's Tuberose's
Are you here Are you here Are you here, cause my heart recalls that it All seems like All looks like It all feels like It tasted like Tasted Tasted like
When he comes to lay me down in a garden of tuberose's When he comes around there's nothing more to imagine Just tuberose's Tuberose's
Ooh you're searching for something I know won't make you happy Ooh you're thirsting for something I know won't make you happy Ooh you did it all again you broke another skin It's hard to believe this time hard to believe That my heart my heart's an open door You got all you came for baby So weary someone to love is bigger than your pride's worth Is bigger than the pain you got for it hurts And out runs all of the sadness It's terrifying life through the darkness And I'd do it all again I'd do it all again I'd do it all again I'd do it all again You try sometimes but it won't stop You got my heart and my head's lost ooh yeah I've been burning down these candles for love for love So weary someone to love is bigger than your pride someone to love someone to love someone to love Ooh you're searching for something I know won't make you happy Ooh
[Verse 1] I could pretend that I was okay I wind around the parties, drink in hand I could pretend when you went away That I had changed and I no longer hear the band
[Bridge 1] But I won't lie I found a love I had to rediscover I was emotionally scarred we could not get it away There are times when it breaks and I feel amazed
[Chorus] Feels just like the first time when you kiss me, my lover Angels in the sky will descend on our love And it's hard to deny what is happening Although we talk, talk, talk on the telephone We laugh, laugh, laugh at the things we know
[Verse 2] I've been a soldier for much too long I'd willingly surrender all my arms If you decided you won't be long I'd wait here patient for you Look for you every morning
[Bridge 2] Had this love These were sparks We tried to push it on but I was afraid of the dark We could not get it away Never mind what they say I would feel the same
[Repeat chorus]
If I could choose then my heart would be in it, My charms would be in it, My love would be in it
I know you heard me on the telephone I know you knew that I was coming for you But you still won't give me the answer
I didn't know the day was I didn't know what the time it was I didn't know what my heart would do I was afraid of nothing when you called me on the telephone
I was a creature of appetites And we played a game that you didn't like There wasn't nothing that I could do I can be so bad I can be so bad They just took it away and they broke it in two
Colour my heart Colour my heart Make it restart Make it restart Colour my heart I want it more than I ever knew
The blackest lily The blackest pomy Won't protect my heart from you
You were unnercingly delicate And I had a weekness for etiquette You laid a trail that led straight to your door And I could resist but it was hard to ignore
I don't want to give you up I don't want to hold you up I don't want ambiguous I just know that I've had enough I want you to travel with me Let loose and let your mind go free... Show you things that you've never seen You just go to go with me Ohhh
(Chorus) Your love is so good that I want to show you Don't make me responsible, for something you that can't find Ohhh Your loving is so good, so good, the closer I want it, I want it Into me I want it, I want it, Leave it here I want to get closer to you baby Experience... I want it, I want it Generous... Lay down what's impeding you Cause I want to get closer to you
(Verse 2) I don't want to give you up I'm tired of the pull and push I"m tired of the making love Don't you feel like you've had enough I want you to journey with me, explore all the innocence I don't mind us to build tension but we've got to move in the same direction
[Verse 1:] Oh Father, I wish I had understanding. Never known more Never been so well informed We know the score Heard it all before, But I've never felt more powerless
There's so much blood on the streets So much hope refused So much grainy teenage photographs on the evening news
Oo, when everywhere's violence Silently I go
[Chorus:] Love's on its way I hope it won't be too late
[Verse 2:] When the day comes And I've counted all my sins How mant I'll see I want to be able to say that I did more, more than pray I did more Than just spend my money Just writing letters Than just going out marching I did more than talking and saying the right thing Wearing the right thing It's time for an uprising
[Chorus:] Love's on its way Hope it won't be too late
Love's on its way Love's on its way Love's on its way
So young for death, We walk in shoes too big But you play it like a poet, Like you always did. And I lay face upturned on the palm of God, Pushed on by the fingertips of dreams, They haunted me, Consoling me.
And I would like to call, call it beauty, Strained as love's become, it still amazes me And I would like to call it beauty, ....
You slept a sigh like the angels speak, And we danced into tomorrow on bleeding feet And I had thought that I would die here But you pushed me on, You pushed me on, You pushed me on
(Oh) And I would like to call it beauty, Strained as love's become, it still amazes me And I would like to call it beauty, ....
You can keep it all locked up in your leaden chest Or you can lay mouth open on the water's edge But all your angels and your God will stitch and wash you
Oh I would like to call, call it beauty, Strained as love's become, it still amazes me And I would like to call it beauty, ....
Breakfast at Mickey's, make-up still on Elbows on the greasy table cloth One more coffee and one last cigarette
Smiling at the rain cause you hold me close My best dress on underneath this old coat Walking down Bleecker no one is awake yet
Still, seven hours Nothing but clouds It's enough to make your heart sigh We should try So pick me up and take me out
Oo we crash into love-filled nights (Paris nights and New York mornings) Oo we race till we're out of time (Paris nights and New York mornings) And now that you've taken me up so high (Paris nights and New York mornings) Don't let me down Don't let me down
I could see the lights from the restaurant I couldn't quite perfect that nonchalance Paris and champagne with one brown sugar cube
And we danced while the band played "She's not there" Kissed me in the rain by the Rue Voltaire It's a perfectly good way to ruin those silk shoes
Still, seven hours Nothing but clouds It's enough to make your heart sigh We should try For each other and for the lovers
Oo we crash into love-filled nights (Paris nights and New York mornings) Oo we race till we're out of time (Paris nights and New York mornings) And now that you've taken me up so high (Paris nights and New York mornings) Don't let me down Don't let me down
You change and you grow But we were young We were young and we didn't know We didn't know
Oo we crash into love-filled nights (Paris nights and New York mornings) Oo we race till we're out of time (Paris nights and New York mornings) And now that you've taken me up so high (Paris nights and New York mornings) Don't let me down Don't let me down
You have incredible eyes and all the boys will go wild for you But I was scared in case you made me made do those things But would you oh would you believe me that I was your fool Cause I've been lying awake at night wondering where you are now And if that metal turned out right (refrain) All my life all my life I said it's not right Nobody told me I could do something Nobody told me I could be something Yeah I have tried I have tried To say it's alright Nobody told me I could do something Nobody told me I could be something You wore undoubtable smiles you were divorced from inside they said But I was disturbed when I heard that it's not what you preferred It gets to the point they expected And who are you to disappoint them anyway Time will get you in the end Just when you shook off that regret Around the corner comes a Mary in a fur coat to talk about it (refrain) All my life all my life I said it's not right Nobody told me I could do something Nobody told me I could be something Yeah I have tried I have tried To say it's alright Nobody told me I could do something Nobody told me I could be something Many words that have been spoken Cut me out like paper dolls Made me into something different Something I could not dissolve So far over don't their words slow ya (refrain) All my life all my life I said it's not right Nobody told me I could do something Nobody told me I could be something Yeah I have tried I have tried To say it's alright Nobody told me I could do something Nobody told me I could be something
[Verse 1:] Till then I wasn't alive, I longed for you like the lovesick moon pulls the tide. So I peeled off my skin, I just slipped right in And I become alive.
[Bridge 1:] 'Cause down here there's no fear There's no cause for panic There's just bright cold calm, I feel no harm. This underwater feeling's abandon and it fires my heart.
[Chorus:] Was it emotion Or should I just keep on diving, Keep on diving down? Under this ocean I long to keep on diving, Till my heart is found. It's got a hold on me
Can't forget the things I've seen
[Verse 2:] World will all end And new worlds will begin It's a thought so stark. We're at once determinant, Yet so insignificant, Spinning out in the velvet dark.
[Bridge 2:] Still, down here There's no fear There's no cause for panic There's just this bright cold calm Yeah, it leaves a scar So show me how to find again, If I'm lost, show me where you are
I never knew you were standing on this shore. It says everything. Explains everything. And then from then on it couldn't be just like before. It says everything, changes everything.
So don't just stand there wishing life would fade away. Don't you go around with anyone that makes you feel ashamed.
Goodbye Paradise... I hope that someday you could try. Goodbye... such a shame, that you'd give it all away. Goodbye, goodbye.
Saw your face in a faded light. Said everything, explained everything.
In home saw you dazed and it comes to you a lie. You did everything, blamed anything.
But don't you cut those ribbons to take away the pain. Don't you go around with that same old crowd that makes you feel ashamed.
Goodbye Paradise... I hope that someday you could try. Goodbye...such a shame that you'd give it all away. Goodbye, goodbye paradise.
The Sea, the Majestic Sea. Breaks everything, Crushes everything Cleans everything, Takes everything from me.