Orion Sun - Ne Me Quitte Pas (Don't Leave Me)

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Orion Sun - "Ne Me Quitte Pas (Don't Leave Me)" from the 2020 album Hold Space For Me on Mom + Pop Records.

Philadelphia’s Orion Sun – aka songwriter Tiffany Majette – made her official full-length debut earlier this year with Hold Space For Me, but she’s been honing her craft for years with multi-instrumentalist expertise. Bringing in sounds of R&B, soul, and pop together, she tells her story with enthralling prose and dazzling production.

Her single “Ne Me Quitte Passe (Don’t Leave Me)” takes inspiration from Nina Simone’s rendition of Jacques Brel’s song of the same name. Yet Majette opts to flip the feeling of sadness in Simone’s song and seek joy. Majette describes her song as being about “falling in love unexpectedly & feeling like its too good to be true but actually it’s good and true. This feeling was proof to me that good things can happen to people that feel ugly inside.”

You can feel it in the lift of her voice as she sings “It feels so good know” you over sparse beats and plucks of guitar. It’s a song for getting lost in hopeless romance, embracing tenderness and living in the bliss of the moment.

Read the full post on KEXP.org

Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Oh, That's where you came down like a comment you be all in my dreams like I'm
0:28.7	fucking haunted but it's beautiful You move me like a moon be. Change the water floor.
0:37.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, it feels so good to know you.
0:48.0	It feels so good to know you. It feels so good to know you.
1:03.0	It feels so good to know you. It feels so good to know you. It feels so good to know you. So good.
1:07.0	So good.
1:08.0	So good.
1:10.0	So good. And so far.
1:12.0	So far. Oh my it's not stand,
1:15.0	it's not so it's so go.
1:17.0	It's so,
1:18.0	it's so,
1:20.0	stand stand, stand, stand by,
1:22.0	yeah, I said I was the war.
1:29.0	Had some lies that were nice. I needed something more.
1:31.0	I found you in no bright eyes on a dance floor you wound me like a
1:38.6	warm breeze swept me off my feet.
1:51.0	It feels so good to know, yeah, if you so good.
1:52.0	It feels so good to know you.
1:55.0	It feels so good to know.
1:57.0	It feels so good to know you.
2:00.0	To know you.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KEXP, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of KEXP and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.