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Paris - Commentary

Singer/Songwriter

Paris - Commentary was released on May 2, 2025 by turtlemusik as a part of the album Sunburn (With Commentary)

Song Details

AlbumSunburn (With Commentary)

Release DateMay 2, 2025

Labelturtlemusik

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Gordie Sampson

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Gordie Sampson

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Gordie Sampson

Producer

Lyrics

I don't know that there's any other song on the record that has a

Story that precedes it more than "Paris". We did go to Paris as part

Of this writing trip that produced five or six of these songs on this

Record for one night, and we... it was Bastille Day which is their

National holiday in July, and we were there for one night so we went

Out and had a nice dinner and went out for drinks afterwards, and of

Course the town was on fire, everybody was out, and... nobody

Expected this, nobody ever expects things like this, but as we tried

To get a cab at the end of the night back to the hotel, there was an

Altercation between the cab driver and a young American kid. Very

Strange, the cab driver got out of the car and started pushing this

American kid, he was clearly looking for a fight. And we were all

You know, it was late, we'd all had drinks, we were trying to get

A cab and Troy kind of jumped in as a kind of a knee-jerk response

And said "Hey man, what are you doing?" or whatever, and this cab

Driver, who was massive, just smoked Troy in the face. It was a

Really hard punch, like, I remember the sound. Troy went tumbling

Down the street, end over end. Blair and I chased after him and the

Cab driver got in his car, there was some talk of him having a knife

So we got Troy up and kind of pulled him to another bar that was kind

Of closing and they were shutting down. They were really good, they

Came out and brought a bunch of, like, napkins, 'cause there was

Literally... he was bleeding quite a bit. And then it became, you

Know, get him to a hospital and he got to a hospital. Nobody spoke

English, there was very little English, so I was relying on my un

Petit peu of French sometimes to get the job done. And so the next

Day, I think Troy got out of the hospital something like eleven in

The morning or something, and we got on the train, like still

Bloodstained, believe it or not, and went back to London. And Troy

Stayed on for another writing trip and Blair and I flew home, but...

This song was not written then, but written several months later in

Hindsight, and there's... it remains one of the most asked-about

Songs that I've ever written in terms of the lyric. The lyric is

Very... it's rather cryptic, but it literally taken is a dramatic

Account of that night. And there's a lot of things that were in

The air, it was shortly after 9/11, so there's some like European

Anti-American undertones in there, and just some things that

Were kind of being felt at the time. And it presents as a love

Song, and in a sense it is, figuratively, but it's also... if

I read it as one of the writers down, it presents to me like

A literal account of that night. Strangely enough, Faith Hill

Would hear it at some point and put it on her record, on really

The last record she made, and it's the last cut on that record

Written by: Gordie Sampson

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