CHRIS REA - AUBERGE

AUBERGE

CHRIS REA

SONGWRITER: CHRIS REA

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: GRAND COLLECTION

LABEL: EAST WEST RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1989

 

        Christopher Anton Rea (/ˈriːə/REE-ə; born 4 March 1951) is an English rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born and raised in Middlesbrough, he is of Italian and Irish descent. He is known for his distinctive, husky-gravel voice and slide guitar playing, and the Guinness Rockopedia described him as a "gravel-voiced guitar stalwart".

British Hit Singles & Albums stated that Rea was "one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s" and "already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with the release of the single "The Road to Hell (Part 2)", which was his 18th chart entry. Two of his studio albums, The Road to Hell and Auberge, topped the UK Albums Chart. Rea was nominated three times for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist: in 1988, 1989 and 1990. His other hit songs include "I Can Hear Your Heartbeat", "Stainsby Girls", "Josephine", "On the Beach", "Let's Dance", "Driving Home for Christmas", "Working on It", "Tell Me There's a Heaven", "Auberge", "Looking for the Summer", "Winter Song", "Nothing to Fear", "Julia", and "If You Were Me", a duet with Elton John.

           In the United States he is best known for the 1978 song "Fool (If You Think It's Over)", which reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. This success earned him a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist in 1979. As of 2009, he had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.

       Auberge (a French word meaning "inn") is the eleventh studio album by English singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in 1991. The album, as well as the title song, is notable for its association with the Caterham Super Seven that Rea owned, which he called the "Blue Seven". The car appears on the album cover, illustrated in oil by renowned motoring artist Alan Fearnley. The album makes several references to the car over several tracks, as well on the video of the title song, and its cover illustration was used for its adverts. In 2005, Rea sold the car in an auction.

On the hard fast train

On the road to gain

Something gets right through to your telling bone

There's a sudden itch

An electric twitch

Sometimes I swear this body's got a mind of it's own

 

This is the naked truth

This is the light

There's only one place left to go

Auberge

 

You meet the silent type

On a windy trail

With a shiny cloak and an unseen silver dagger

You can talk till you ache

Give yourself one more break

You can tell by the look on his face that it just doesn't matter

 

This is the naked truth

This is the light

There's only one place left to go

Auberge

 

Give me a weekend

Give me a day

Don't like what I'm seeing though I hear what you say

Think with a dagger

And you'll die on your knees

Begging for mercy

Singing please mister please

 

This is the naked truth

This is the light

There's only one place left to go

Auberge.