More often than not, this song makes me sob. I started college in New Orleans the year this album came out. I fell in love with the City, Interview with a Vampire, and took a lover for the first time at 18. The lover became my husband 9 years later and we have a beautiful family with lots of adult responsibilities. It's overwhelming to re-connect with the surge of those exhilarating achingly nostalgic memories. I know in my bones I will never again be able to recreate feeling so incredibly alive and carefree.
I read all the Vamp Chronicles up to Blood Canticle, but The Witching Hour made me obsessed with New Orleans and the "Garden District". Blackwood Farm was also set there.
Todos nós jamais recriaremos as sensações maravilhosas das descobertas quando éramos inocentes. Também tive vida muito intensa e muito bem povoada e me casei muito bem, mas não com quem vivi as melhores experiências porque ele transitava num mundo que não queria e nem quero para mim. Bem sofisticado e drogado, de fato jamais ligaria meu destino, porém enriqueceu muito meus conhecimentos e morreu cedo. Pagou o preço e acredito que sua alma esteja bem porque era inacreditavelmente bom e generoso. A mãe dele achava que se afundou de vez porque eu saí fora e não sou de voltar atrás, porém ninguém tem culpa das escolhas de alguém. Nem ela, nem eu. Durmo tranquila e sinto saudades de quem eu era porque ao descobrir o mundo como é, 90% do encanto some.
For those who don't know, this song is about a vampire in New Orleans, that falls in love with a woman, knowing that sooner or later he must give in to his bloodlust. Sting was prompted to write this after a visit to New Orleans, during which he felt a presence following him .
Actually, there's something the vampire could do about that. He could work the nightshift at the local butchery or slaughterhouse, and bam! Plenty of blood, and he doesn't have to harm anyone. Problem solved. :-)
Sting à fait des tonnes de belles chansons mais celle là est hors concour.. D'une beautée extraordinaire, un moment de grâce.. Du pur génie.. Ce type est un dieu vivant 😀
It's forever my favourite of Sting's albums. The Soul Cages is another one of my top 3 fave Sting albums. He's amazing & his music is timeless,in my opinion!
There's a moon over bourbon street tonight I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight I've no choice but to follow that call The bright lights the people and the moon and all I pray everyday to be strong For I know what I do must be wrong Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet While there's a moon over bourbon street It was many years ago that I became what I am I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb Now I can never show my face at noon And you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet While there's a moon over bourbon street She walks everyday through the streets of New Orleans She's innocent and young from a family of means I have stood many times outside her window at night To struggle with my instinct in the pale moonlight How could I be this way when I pray to god above I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet While there's a moon over bourbon street
I absolutely love Sting. Everything he writes, serious or not, shows true depth and a way with the English language that you just don't see anymore. I always found it interesting that he did this song- about a vampire, and then Sister Moon- which I've always seen as being about a werewolf. I'm not sure which one was released first, but to me those two songs will always be a set.
to answer your questions 1. he was an English teacher before he became q professional musician. 2. this song *moon over bourbon street* was from _the dream of the blue turtles_, his debut solo album from 1985, whereas *sister moon* was from _nothing like the sun_, released in 1987.
In fact one of my favorite Sting compositions! It has a kind of iconic value in music history. A good song can played on any instrument. I was challenged to rearrange it for guitar solo and even in the original key it was quite possible though not easy. I wrote it but I'm still working on it. You can find it on RU-vid.
I have loved this song since I was very small. Those flutes where so mysterious and it had something incredibly sad in it even though I couldn't understand the lyrics.
As a massive fan of Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles and Lives Of the Mayfair Witches this song hits that nerve so beautifully. Sting wrote the song about The Vampire Lestat and it resonates so well with his ever changing feelings as well as with some of the other Vampire characters. I always tell people that those books are not something I would myself say are about Vampires; but about people and their struggles and they just happen to be Vampires.
It was actually about Louis, he said he found Louis a much more interesting character. And all the parts about watching this woman from afar, it really makes us think of Babette Freniere..
A fun book later from Lestats' perspective is 'The Body Thief'. After the fiasco of being a rock star and dealing with Akasha, this book gives Lestat an opportunity, by an evil mage, to take over a brain dead beautiful young man. Where as Lestat was a big beautiful Norse man, this one is dark skinned. Lestat finds being a regular human awful, comically so. Even sex and food, after hundreds of years with preternatural powers, are dimmed. And having to use the toilet, etc., just mundane stuff, is really comical. He needs David, who is getting old, to help him stop the mage, in Lestats' body, and committing atrocities that horrifying them. So Lestat want himself back. But they must do it, without letting the mage take control of the young, dead man that Lestat has. It ends the best, the mage goes 'away', and David, kind and brilliant, gets the young man's body. Though he never wanted immortality, another lifetime is good. And Lestat is back, himself. No longer wishing to be mortal, again. It's been years since I read it, but I liked it, as one of the best in the series. She's not my favorite author, but I truly love most of her work. Her books on the castrati, a bit more factual, but with good story lines. I think she did the best Mummy book. It too had horror and humor, with some romance, too. A very different take on it. 🥰✌
@@laurajarrell6187 I read them all at least twice and the Mayfair Witches. The only ones I did not read were the last three. Prince Lestat which I have signed, the Altantis one, and one other new one. The last one I read in the line up was Blood Canticle. Blackwood Farm was also incredibly phenomenal. One of my fav's for sure. I also have The Wolf Gift Signed with my name from Comic Con in NYC. I can't read the way I used to when I was younger. My eyesight is horrible and I used to live in contact lens. Then I became far sighted as well and I can't read at all with my contacts even with reading classes it's difficult. Now when I'm home i just take off my lens and wear bifocals that I dislike. I usually just take them off to read which is why I don't read much except articles and stories online.
While on a long,meandering journey of revisiting the 80s on RU-vid,this is one of those songs I've stumbled upon that didn't reach my ears at the time it was released. Always nice to make a few discoveries along the way!
Anne Rice killed Lestat; "Interview with a vampire" is read-able (and a thousand times better than most "modern" vampire-novels), and the direct follower (don't recall the english title - the book about Lestat), was okay, as well, but it started to crumble with "Queen of the Damned", and I am not even mentioning the movie here. From there on it was milking the franchise. At a point Armand was the only "consistent" character - stuck in the past until he finds a new guy to "introduce" him to the present. I'm thankful that Anne Rice probably inspired a great deal for the "Vampire - The Masquerade" RPG, but I'd rather read the sourcebooks (not the novelisations to the RPG), than digging out the books after "Interview with the Vampire" from my boxes.
T.R. L. Yes honestly speaking, I think I used to b with male vampires in my past so called relationships bc they destroyed my faith in love by not being true to me. Moon over Debi's street
In Interview With The Vampire, Louis (the vampire) loves life, and doesn’t want to kill... but unfortunately he has to in order to get rid of his pain. I love this quote because after Sting read the book he wrote this song... ❤️
Great song. So this is atragic story, the guy becomes some kind of a monster every time the moon comes out -over Bourbon street- and does things he doesn't really want to do and he fights with himself. Brilliantly told, a really nice and tragic story told by music. Love it.!
What a wonderful understanding of the this magic song by Sting through photos. It's all about underground life, mob life, mafia... Maybe voodoo magic as well employed as a weapon (New Orleans, Louisiana, obliges). Love this school teacher from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he does help me to live through this life for the last 30 years.
While listening to Sting's "Moon over Bourbon street," I used to write "Thoughts" when I was a teenager. It feels like immersing your hands in the murmuring of the river. In the shade, in the shade of trees, and in the shade, I was writing things with a little effort while comforting my body. While doing so, I often watched Hitchcock's movies and Colombo with his mother. The characters in Hitchcock and Colombo's films probably thought they were comfortable and enjoying their lives with little effort. I thought I was enjoying the life. But if you look closely, they go to various places in the movie. I'm out of my house and going far away. I have met many people in it. Apparently it was different ... But I can't put that feeling into words well. There is an emotion that leaks out, and I can't write down what I want to write down. Like putting letters in running water, carving, everything flows and cannot be written down. I'll be able to write someday. That precious and comfortable impression that I remembered at that time is useless if I have to write it down. That's a shame. It's important. It still consists of a foundation and a house that serves as a hotbed for my writer.
I remember that song in the late 80ties.I walked in the moonlight along the street , so far from him and , Oh God,how I missed him! I remember his steps at the Arquebusiers street...so long ago...somehere...sometimes...
This song is beautiful but its written mostly for Louis, not for Lestat. I need a song as beautiful as this one for my prince Lestat! He deserves it! 🥀🌙🍷
I'm in New Orleans right now, my first time here. I've grown tired of vampires and I think that the idea has been ruined by mainstream media, but I feel this song here. Southern Gothic written by an Englishman.
I'm surprised that so many people believe that this is a werewolf song. I suppose it doesn't really matter in the end, but the fact of the matter is that Sting himself has stated that the song was inspired by the Anne Rice book. It's probably the frequent mentions of the moon that throws people off track.
We all are 100% different, that makes everyone of us unique and priceless, so each one of us is the best, no one better or worse than the others, unluckily; the only one who is better than all of us is the nonexistent, it is the one who was nothing and it will stay as nothing, forever. life is imperfect, otherwise no one suffers no one complains and no need to be patient.
Yes , your true self "ATMA" the non existed one. The consciousness behind your physical body and your mind - The Awareful Witness - the one who is real you but not existed in this physical world. 🕉
As I sat in Biloxi, Mississippi, I found this album. And, in that moment, this song introduced me to Anne Rice and "Interview with the Vampire. " Yesssss...
As a fan of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles i gotta say I LOVE this song, since the first time i heard it (without have confirmed it was based on Anne's books) i knew it was about Anne's vampires. My favorites books!
@striva Anne wrote 10 books and together they are Vampire Chronicles and one of them is "Interview with the vampire" but this song was inspired by "The vampire Lestat", another book of The Chronicles, but it doesn't have movie like Interview...
when this song was released I was 15 and I knew this life of the song. It could be a vampire singing, yes. But to me it was anyone who is bound and drawn to a life that, before it is even lived, in his heart he's knowing, is destined to be... unusual. Yet, you go. Don't you... Yes. You do.
Most of you should know this song is not about vampires but a werewolf. Just because it is set in New Orleans and at this present time(2011) vampires are all the rage, this particular song is about a werewolf!
For all my years playing shows all over the south including many parts of LA, the one time I've gotten to go to Bourbon Street was on my honeymoon with my ex wife. She was from there originally, and we spent a few days at the Hyatt on the corner of Bourbon and Canal. The honeymoon was the best part of the whole marriage.
It's not about a werewolf, honey. The liner notes from "Dream of the Blue Turtles" clearly say that Sting wrote it after reading "Interview With The Vampire" when it was a new book, long before it was a movie.
