Jimmy Buffett - La Vie Dansante Lyrics
La vie dansanteBy: jimmy buffett, michael utley, will jennings1984[the dancing life]They can come take it all awayBreak your heart by the light of dayDrown your love in a distant baySo lonelySee the ships heading for the rocksSee the time melting off of the clocksTheres a light shatters all the locksAnd saves meIt saves meThats why I wander and follow la vie dansanteOn the night wind that takes me just where I wantThats all I want la vie dansanteWhy dont you wander and follow la vie dansanteOn the night wind that takes you just where you wantThats all you want la vie dansanteMiss the beat if you close your eyesEvery night wears a new disguiseAnd I live when a new surprise surrendersFeel it all with a willing heartEvery stop is a place to startIf you know how to play the part with feelingI play with feelingsThats why I wander and follow la vie dansanteOn the night wind that takes me just where I wantThats all I want la vie dansanteWhy dont you wander and follow la vie dansanteOn the night wind that takes you just where you wantThats all you want la vie dansanteThats why we wander and follow la vie dansanteOn the night wind that takes us just where we wantThats all we want la vie dansanteWhy dont you wander and follow the dancing lifeOn the night wind that takes you just where you wantThats all you want la vie dansanteThats why we wander and follow la vie dansanteOn the night wind that takes us just where we wantThats all we want la vie dansanteLa la la la la la la la la la la laLa la la la la la la la la la la laThats all we want...@album notes:Back cover -What goes around comes around say wise men in bars. any good artist feels compelled to change, if not doomed to change, and vary his art as much as he varies his life. starting fromEnter, buffett has shot off to a number of usual and unusual planets. now in riddles in the sand we see him coming home not quite on a-1a, but with the same richness of feeling that informed mucHis earlier work.Years ago, down in riviera beach in southeast texas, I saw some cowboys ride into town on horseback for a dinner of gulf shrimp and oysters. if you were superman you could have seen key westernHere in the distance. this album has a musical range expanding in an arc from bob wills to bob marley with the gulf somehow always there: a low and high tidal range, sweet and piney like the delIl, caribbean islands white with coral dust, ladies as moist and sweet as a fresh broken conch. rather than a return, buffett is starting out from the center again, with a vast expansion both muLy and emotionally. the music is a triumph for an american sound.- jim harrisonSleeve -Acoustic guitar - jimmy buffettElectric guitar - reggie youngElectric and acoustic guitar - billy walker jr.Bass - emory gordyKeyboards and synthesizer - michael utleyKeyboards and synthesizer - john jarvisDrums - matt bettonSteel drums - robert greenidgePercussion - samuel claytonHarmonica - greg fingers taylorBackground vocals - jimmy buffett, mac mcanally, wendy waldman, thomFlora, larry lee, samuel claytonMac mcanally appears courtesy of geffen recordsProduced and recorded by: jimmy bowen for lynwood production, michael utley and tony brownRecorded and mixed at sound stage studio1st engineers: ron treat - basic tracks and overdubs, steve tillisch - mixdown2dn engineers: mark coddington and vicki hicksOriginally mastered at masterfonics by glenn meadowsMixed and mastered using the jvc digital audio mastering systemPhotography by jim sheaDrawings on the sleeve by: savannah jane buffett, maura and melanie lyons.Art direction by jeff adamoffVery special thanks to:Nashville - johnny dickinson, charlie allen, will dr. wheeeel jennings, dirt lanier, jessie noble, abbe demontbreun and to the consistent nutrition experts hap towned, lu bar bq, macs cafe and the ellistio place soda shopAt the gulf - dan sweet, kenny wall, greer and brooke radcliff and rusty the wonder horseOut west - howard kaufman, bobby liberman and nina avramides-berducatThis album is dedicated with much love to jane slagsvol buffett, who over the years, has been and remains, the ultimate riddle in the sand.
