Una pe zi - 17 noiembrie 2012

Moon Over Bourboon Street – Sting 

(live at Universal Amphitheatre – 2000) 

„The Dream of the Blue Turtles” (1 june 1985) is the first solo album by Sting. 

The song Moon Over Bourboon Street embodies what vampire stories SHOULD have at their core.
It’s not about sex. It’s the concept that now changed as a person, there is no going back, and you can’t change your new direction, you either have to accept, embrace or die.

Sting said it was inspired by Anne Rice's book "Interview With A Vampire''.

The lyrics are:

There's a moon over bourbon street tonight

I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight

I've no choice but to follow that call

The bright lights the people and the moon and all

I pray everyday to be strong

For I know what I do must be wrong

Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet

While there's a moon over bourbon street

It was many years ago that I became what I am

I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb

Now I can never show my face at noon

And you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon

The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast

I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest

Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet

While there's a moon over bourbon street

She walks everyday through the streets of New Orleans

She's innocent and young from a family of means

I have stood many times outside her window at night

To struggle with my instinct in the pale moonlight

How could I be this way when I pray to god above

I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love

Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet

While there's a moon over bourbon street. 

THE BRAND NEW DAY TOUR live, STING 

(The Universal Amphitheatre - 2000)

STING - guitars/vocals

Dominic Miller - guitars

Manu Katché - drums

Jason Robello - piano/clavinet

Kipper - keyboards/drum programming

Stevie Wonder - harmonica

Chris Botti - trumpet

Mohamed Khelifati - vocal

Abdel Nasser Haoua - darabukka

Mejdoub Ftati - violin

Lorraine Barnes - backing vocals

Mandy Lecointe - backing vocals

Samantha Swaby - backing vocals