| "The Sweet Escape" | ||||
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| Single by Poets of the Fall | ||||
| from the album Ultraviolet | ||||
| Released | October 5, 2018 | |||
| Length | 5:30 | |||
| Label | Insomniac | |||
| BPM | 152 | |||
| Key | C | |||
| Producer(s) | Poets of the Fall | |||
| Poets of the Fall singles chronology | ||||
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The Sweet Escape is the sixth track on Poets of the Fall's 2018 eighth full album Ultraviolet.
On 10th May 2019, an overhauled version of the track featuring an expanded lead guitar part released as a single alongside a music video directed by Miika Hakala.
In 2020, the track was performed live and unplugged by Marko and Olli as the March entry of the Alexander Theatre Sessions.
Single track listing (The Sweet Escape)
All tracks are written by Poets of the Fall
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Sweet Escape (Radio Edit)" | 3:39 |
| 2. | "The Sweet Escape (Long Edit)" | 5:30 |
| 3. | "The Sweet Escape (Instrumental)" | 5:30 |
Lyrics (English)
Lying in the arms of night
In the shadows of the firelight
Suspended by this feeling of fading away
I wanna run away with you
So meet me by the cut through
Together we'll make our sweet escape
Cos you're fearless in your love
Devoted to compassion
The highest state of art
Piercing in your truth
Sincere in all intention
The way you wear your heart
The way you hold my heart
My fierce friend
Under a canopy of stars
Where thought and truth divorce
In that latticework of dreams we are shameless
I wanna run away with you
Somewhere they cannot undo
Together we'll make our sweet escape
Cos you're fearless in your love...
And this is why I love you
Why you're the only one
You're the only one
Who has seen me come undone
And then seen beyond
Cos you're fearless in your love...
I wanna run away tonight
Just leave everything behind
Together we'll make our sweet escape
In the shadows out of sight
Like ghosts in ultraviolet
| "Partir Avec Moi" | |
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| Single by Poets of the Fall | |
| from the album Ultraviolet | |
| Released | May 17, 2019 |
A week after the single release, the track was re-released in French as Partir Avec Moi with an alternate music video also directed by Miika Hakala.
Single Track Listing (Partir Avec Moi)
All tracks are written by Poets of the Fall
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Partir Avec Moi (Radio Edit)" | 3:39 |
| 2. | "Partir Avec Moi (Long Edit)" | 5:30 |
| 3. | "Partir Avec Moi (Instrumental)" | 5:30 |
Lyrics (French)
Couché dans les bras de la nuit
À l'ombre de le cla du feu
Accroché par ce sentiment de disparition
Je veux filer avec toi
Viens me retrouver à la sortie
En secret je veux partir avec toi
Tu es brave dans ton amour
Voué à la compassion
Plus belle inspiration
Tu dis la vérité
Sincère dans tes intentions
Ton coeur sur la main
Mon coeur dans ta main
Mon Amour
Sous des milliers d'étoile
Ou Pensée n'est pas Vérité
Dans nos rêves, nous sommes sans complexe
Je veux filer avec toi
Dans un endroit intouchable
En secret je veux partir avec toi
Tu es brave dans ton amour
Voué à la compassion
Plus belle inspiration
Tu dis la vérité
Sincère dans tes intentions
Ton coeur sur la main
Mon coeur dans ta main
Mon Amour
C'est pour ça que je t'aime
Il n'y a que toi
Il n'y a que toi
Qui m'as vu comme ça
Et la flamme qui est en moi
Tu es brave dans ton amour
Voué à la compassion
Plus belle inspiration
Tu dis la vérité
Sincère dans tes intentions
Ton coeur sur la main
Mon coeur dans ta main
Mon Amour
Je veux filer ce soir
Il nous suffit de tout laisser
En secret je veux partir avec toi
Dans la clandestinité
Des fantomes en ultraviolet
Merchandise
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Interviews
Marko Saaresto with Misfit Heart
Well, ever since Françoise Hardy did her adaptation of our song Sleep in French, we’d had this idea of maybe doing a French version of one of our songs at a later time. I suppose my spending last winter writing songs in Nice, France, had something to do with making the idea seem more tangible. When I got back, I believe it was Olli who suggested we’d give it a shot with The Sweet Escape. I’m in no way fluent in French, but I do speak “un peu” and of course, I love the language, so I thought it was worth a try. Turns out the song sounds pretty damn good in “en Français”. Our hope of course is that others will agree with us, once they hear the it. I know it’s a one off for us, since my writing works best for me in English (or in Finnish) and adapting a text into a different language takes a lot of effort. Besides Poets of the Fall is ultimately sung in English, so… But hey, try anything once…
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Yes, I took it upon myself to write the adaptation. Intimidating and fascinating. And of course, I didn’t do it alone. I enlisted the wonderful help of a fellow musician and producer Laurent Sari, who is French. He was a huge help. Together we were able to talk through all the fine details and minute differences in meanings in the original lyric and decide what and how to convey the story in French. Stuff I couldn’t have known with my limited grasp of the French language.[1]
Laurent Sari with Misfit Heart
It’s never easy to work on an adaptation. If you translate word for word, you will obviously lose the rhymes. If you keep the rhymes, you may lose some of the song meaning.
Luckily, I was working with Marko and he speaks French so between the both of us, we managed to create the adaptation. Looking back, it was not particularly difficult as Marko knew his original lyrics well and therefore it was a smooth process.
What was remarkable working on that song was how precise Marko’s ear was.
He was able to sing in French very quickly which is usually difficult to do. No problem for him! Everything was recorded rather fast.[2]
Miika Hakala with Misfit Heart
I can tell you that it was a fast shoot! I think the band was in the middle of a tour and scheduling for the project was not the easiest thing to do. We had fairly limited amount of time to set everything up. We had a few different concepts for the video in mind but decided to go with the one that was released (obviously 😄).
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The source of inspiration for me was really the 80’s vibe of the song. I wanted to have this kinda old school film look to the video. Wet pavement and city lights were also mandatory. I wanted it to be very intimate but also grandiose at the same time! It’s centered around one person carrying an item through the night. One glimpse at this person’s timeline. All those people who pass by have their own packages to carry, their own problems, their own sources of happiness etc. So on a conceptual level it’s this one particular life in this vast city of lights (and lives) and colors and people and whatnot. To emphasize that concept and the old school film look I used the widest anamorphic lens I could find that also did some crazy distortions to the image. You can be pretty close to your subject but still get this huge field of view.
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We wanted to have a little different angle on it while still retaining the same spirit in both projects as they’re essentially the same video, just in different languages. Some subtle changes in color palette came along as a way to recognize and visualize those differing lyrics. Also, we wanted to take the opportunity to tell a little larger story if you watch both of the videos back-to-back. Partir Avec Moi kinda shows you a little more of what happened that night. Gives you a little different perspective.[3]
Trivia
- Latticework is the structure created by the act of weaving. Therefore a "latticework of dreams" would presumably have been made by a Weaver of Dreams.