Remembering Chris Rea: Gone Fishing | EUROtoday

That may have been me: This sentence stings like a knife. It happens to somebody who’s already far-off, on this case not over the mountains, however on the open sea. The look goes again to the coast, sees “peace on the shoreline” after which results in the belief: “That could have been me”. But it is a sentence with X.

The particular person singing right here is “gone fishing”. That’s what you say in English once you disconnect for some time – and even without end. It’s now a saying on mugs and t-shirts on this nation too: I’ve had sufficient, I’m going fishing. The undeniable fact that Chris Rea turned it right into a music proves his penchant for standard connectivity, which is expressed in lots of hits from “Driving Home for Christmas” to “On the Beach” to “The Road to Hell”.

However, “Gone Fishing” shouldn’t be appropriate as a radio single. It is a serene ballad that makes it clear from the primary few bars that her lyrical self has emerged from all contexts. The textual content is fairly monosyllabic, it purrs collectively to the assertion: I’ll be gone then, you may by no means be pleased anyway, and nothing I do will change that. The separation was inevitable.

The laconic joke comes between the road “I got me a line” and the simultaneous admission: “I know nothing about fishing”. He would not know something about fishing, however he runs off anyway. His defiance appears nearly childlike when he provides: “But just watch me go.”

The lyrics converse for themselves, however along with the music it creates friction. Because saying goodbye is not that straightforward, you’ll be able to hear that within the smoky, serene parlando tone of Chris Rea’s voice, however particularly in his crying slide guitar, which lastly takes over the reigns on this music.

“Gone Fishing” closes the album “Auberge,” a conceptual step into the open — nevertheless it appears like an total legacy now, after Chris Rea died on December twenty second on the age of 74. Yes, lots of his songs had sugar coating, generally a lot too thick (“Dudidudu – Heaven”). But “Gone Fishing” is an efficient instance of the profound and enigmatic nature of his work, which was considerably richer than it might sound primarily based on the well-known hits and which additionally contained bitter items and quite a lot of blues. He had many causes to sing and play it. There is even a deep knowledge on this:

“You can waste a whole lifetime / Trying to be / What you think is expected of you / But you’ll never be free / May as well go fishing”. In the top, there stays a stress between a conciliatory ending and the data that the particular person singing is on their own within the boat. We wave goodbye.

I’m going fishing
I received me a line
Nothing I do is gonna make the distinction
So I’m taking the time

And you ain’t by no means gonna be pleased
Anyhow, anyway
So I’m going fishing
And I’m going in the present day

I’m going fishing
Sounds loopy I do know
I do know nothing about fishing
But simply watch me go

And when my time has come
I’ll look again and see
Peace on the shoreline
That may have been me

You can waste an entire lifetime
Trying to be
What you suppose is predicted of you
But you may by no means be free