The Caretaker - Tonight, all seems blue and dark (Live in Présences Électronique 2018) 

So didn't translate the lyrics in their entirety on the original INA video so here you are : Ce soir, mon coeur a tant de peine. (Tonight, my heart is aching) Ce soir, tout semble triste et noir. (Tonight, all seems blue and dark) J'ai peur, malgré notre amour même. (I fear, even with help of our love) J'ai peur de ne plus te revoir. (I fear to never see you again) Ce soir, il faut que tu reviennes. (Tonight, you must come back to me) J'attends, dans l'ombre de la nuit. (I wait, cowered in night's cloak) J'attends, puisque c'est toi que j'aime. (I wait, because you're the one I love) Traînant mon éternel ennui. (Trailing my ever-lasting boredom) Un jour sans toi, c'est une éternité. (One day without you seems like an eternity) Dis-moi pourquoi, chéri(e), tu m'as quitté ? (Tell me, darling, why have you left me?)

If you listen closely, you can hear people crying and coughing. It’s small but adds a disturbing amount of reality

Ivan Seal and The Caretaker are a powerful match of sight and sound.

Let's dance untill the end of time

Basically, a stage 1-5 speedrun.

Less dementia and more all-consuming depression

Ahh, the one at his interview

This might be the best caretaker track. Its so lonely, so haunting, so somber, and the way it devolves into sounding like stage 4 in the end...damn. Goosebumps every time, man. This could go between stages 3 and 4

It's worse when you are a french native and you understand the lyrics

TRANSLATED LYRICS: Tonight my heart is in so much pain Tonight everything seems sad and dark I'm afraid despite our very love I'm afraid I won't see you again. Tonight you must come back I wait in the shadow of the night I'm waiting since it's you I love Dragging along my eternal boredom. A day without you is an eternity Tell me why, honey, you left me. Tonight my heart is in so much pain Tonight everything seems sad and dark I'm afraid despite our very love I'm afraid I won't see you again. Why does it take this long trip? Disturbing the course of happy days? Why must your image be forever far from my eyes? A day without you is an eternity Tell me why, honey, you left me. Tonight my heart is in so much pain Tonight everything seems sad and dark Yet despite ... still This evening I still have hope. To see you again.

This song feels like a representation of a depressing realization of someones interests being uninteresting and the process of their stress increasing, by how the music degrades in more loudness and massive switches in sounds, represents the stress growing, and tone in his voice and the music feels dull and cold in emotion, which explains the failure or giving up in their interests that have potential. just my take on the track, but who knows..

Haunting and yet rather relaxing. Vibing to this on those dark wet nights. When the Villain wins, there's no more heroes coming to stop him, he rules the world.....but he has nothing else. The tragedy of winning.

0:00 Stage 2 1:22 Stage 3 4:44 Stage 4/5

I find the art of Ivan Seal really interesting. My interpretation of this painting is that it’s a person sitting at a chair, about to play an instrument (guitar? mandolin?) but they have no motivation to play it, so just end up sitting there.

As someone with depression, this is pretty accurate to how it feels to think.

This song feels like having depression and laying in bed at the middle of the night listening to the last track in you're music playlist, until the song ends and you're left in the dark with just your negative thoughts.

5:54 is most definitely the stealthiest licc of all time

imo, this tracks represents a depressive episode

This song feels like it moves from Stages 2 to 4 very suddenly. It has shades of Misplaced in Time as a feeling but reminds me more of EAEB. That change to sounding like stage 4 is really something though. I wish he’d release all his alternate work, maybe it’s own box set.

4:43 is where it all gets majorly distorted

Hello curious bystanders. I'm really happy to have found this sample so thank you for the upload ! I don't know if someone will be interested but I've done a quick translation of the song. The soundtrack contains the first verse only - I'm sorry if the translation is a bit weird, I'm not a native english speaker. Ce soir mon coeur a tant de peine My heart hurts so much tonight Ce soir tout semble triste et noir All seems sad and dark tonight J'ai peur malgré notre amour même Despite our love I'm scared J'ai peur de ne plus te revoir. I'm scared of never seeing you again Ce soir il faut que tu reviennes You need to come back tonight J'attends dans l'ombre de la nuit In the shadows of night I'm waiting J'attends puisque c'est toi que j'aime I'm waiting because you're the one I love Traînant mon éternel ennui. Dragging my eternal boredom Un jour sans toi c'est une éternité A day without you is an eternity Dis-moi pourquoi, chérie, tu m'as quitté. Tell me, darling, why did you leave me? Ce soir mon coeur a tant de peine My heart hurts do much tonight Ce soir tout semble triste et noir All seems sad and dark tonight J'ai peur malgré notre amour même Despite our love I'm scared J'ai peur de ne plus te revoir. I'm scared of never seeing you again. The song speaks of heartbreak - a man in pleading the woman he loves to come back. Coupled with The Caretaker's project, I think it gives a chilling soundtrack : either the man is afraid of never seeing his lover again because of the disease ; or the man is crying for a long-lost lover he remembered from his youth ; or he's afraid of abandonment, maybe he forgot where his lover is. Well that's my theory, I'm no expert on the Caretaker. In any case, thank you again :)

It makes me imagine a Soviet soldier during the invasion of Russia and he’s called to do his part in the war. As he leaves his home village saying his goodbyes to his loved ones night starts to fall upon him and the rest of the men called to the battlefront, he gets in the back of the truck driving him far away from the life he had to leave behind looking back with a sadness in his heart and a tear in his eye. He tries to ease the sad feeling by looking at the night sky that they drive under, he says to the other men in the back of the truck " Tonight, all seems blue and dark" no one says a word as they continue down the dark road lit only by the lights of the couple trucks driving on them. As they drive out of cover that was provided by a few trees ever once and awhile they come into a area of fields, not being able to see anything other than the night sky and the silhouettes of a few trees the ignore the feeling of unease that had fallen upon the men. As the continue their way down the dark road they here a loud boom that comes from the tree line in the distant background of the field, the lead truck abruptly explodes into a fiery death, the men suddenly realize that they are under attack and urge the driver to backup into cover the driver does not acknowledge them and speeds past the burning skeleton of the lead truck and the couple bodies that lay in the road. Driving as fast as the truck could go the driver tries to get to cover ahead, another loud boom fills the air and a faint whistle can be hear the men in the back of the truck realize that this is the end and they would never see their families again, the truck is struck with extreme force and is lit up in blazes throwing the men out of the back, the man that had left his family that night lays on the dirt road as the night sky and glow from the burning truck fade out of view and darkness fills his view the last thing he can here before dying is the song playing in the distance as it starts to get louder and more disturbed by the crackling and static like sound distorting it greatly, the man slowly drifts into the darkness never to see or hear anything again.

honestly I love the caretakers sound but id honestly just love an extension of the lyrics. it sounds so haunting in this key holy shit

English Lyrics: How's wall Forget about the banner Says what So some blue grief and woe Zipper I bring all ham on manor Zipper They don't think of a wall Says what We employ to the piano Shut up The long of bird obese Jog on Christmas and water banner Melon My nuclear memory I was on Guam Say jigging every day See what won't work She'll need you money day How's wall Forget about the banner Says what So some blue grief and woe Zipper I bring all ham on manor Zipper You've been looking through a claw

This song HAUNTS me, I don't want to forget, I'm not scared to die but don't take my memories away! This is probably the most concise and powerful representation of the Caretaker's message Kirby ever did. This would have fit so well as a conclusion to stage 3, a moment of the best bliss in the album only to fall down to stage 4 at the end, the song talking about someone crying his past love is so appropriate when you replace the loved one by memories, identity.

The vibes from this... I never want to come back here again...

When the Alzheimer’s switches the system settings to french

There is nothing like listening to this at midnight in the darkness of your room while eating chips alone, and it's freezing cold

QUE 👏 BONITA 👏 CANCIÓN 👏

Lyrics in English: This evening I've so much heartache This evening everything seems sad and bleak I'm afraid despite our love itself I'm afraid I won't see you again. This evening I need you to come back I'm waiting in the shadows of the night I'm waiting since it's you that I love Whilst carrying my endless worry. A day without you is a lifetime Tell me why, darling, you left me. This evening I've so much heartache This evening everything seems sad and bleak I'm afraid despite our love itself I'm afraid I won't see you again. Why is this long journey necessary Disrupting the path of happy days Why should your image Be forever far from my sight? A day without you is a lifetime Tell me why, darling, you left me. This evening I've so much heartache This evening everything seems sad and bleak And yet despite ... even so Tonight I still have hope. To see again.

Whenever Im in one of my depressive episodes I listen to the caretaker and all just goes away for a while

this is how it feels to stare at the ceiling at night thinking about your own mortality

I read up on the singer Tino Rossi and learned this song was recorded when he lived in Nazi-occupied France. That context certainly adds more darkness to this song. Rossi was arrested and eventually released for being associated with a French resister.

This is romance🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 (from L1 (and technically Q1(and R1)))

This seems like it could be a lucid moment in the post-awareness stages.

It’s kinda like walking through a modern art gallery

This piece has an excellent sense of brooding melancholy about it. I can imagine it playing in a scene where the protagonist is seated in their study, viewing an album of happier days with their beloved that's no longer with them - whether they're alive or not is up to you. After a while, they decide to get themselves their favourite drink, and leave for a moment, but when they return, they pick up an old record, dust it off, and have it play while they continue to leaf through the album and drown their sorrows away. Outside, patchy rain hits the window, yet every now and then, the Moon emerges from behind the clouds, casting a silver light through the ajar curtains that competes with the warm yellow of the protagonist's oil lamp.

This one of if not the only caretaker track I listen to normally.

This sounds incredibly beautiful

anyone get he feeling this was supposed to originally be the temporary bliss state for stage 4m

The fact that this has 1 dislike depresses me more than the song

My phone legit crashed when it got to the distorted part... Spooky

I think it was unreleased because Leyland Kirby decided there wasn't gonna be any voices in EATEOT.

Thank you very much for doing this work for us and uploading it. I appreciate the commitment to preserving hidden musical gems in your description. This is lovely, poltergeist-ridden music.

I wish i could listen to second part, it's so soothing

00:00 - 4:44 Это было великолепно. Готов слушать это вечно

“My heart seems *blue* yet what else can I do? When I see it rain, I cry tears of Pain, will I be drowned in Shame? For tonight, will not bring me fame, it feels so dark but I feel like I am on an Ark, the ark twists and turns, making my heart burn. What else can I see? I do have a happy life and a happy family! So do not take life for granted, even if you feel lamented, for an empty bliss lies ahead, waiting for *YOU* instead.”

For anyone in the comments wondering, the Ivan Seal painting is called "dumtrimiestonmo blurosperiod." I can't figure out when it was painted, but online, I found some exhibits in Europe where the painting was shown.

For me its seems like a man with a guitar and his face is a Door that has been opened. And is sitting on a chair

C E S O I R

What a beautiful piece of art!

I love this track so much. It feels like a Misplaced in Time. It's so melancholy, so sad, like the emotions are circling around in a globe and you stand in the middle of the void.

unlike other caretaker songs where you feel its dementia. this one.. gave me the feeling of depression, *didnt help with the lyrics being sad. like it feels like the person is forgetting the song not because of dementia but depression and they forcing themselves to forget this thought.

yikes, when 4:45 happened it's like someone turned the damn lights off.

1:22 My favorite part starts here.

Se soir, tout semble triste et noir. Se soir, il faut que tu reviens. Raison de mon éternelle ennuis. C'est une belle chanson 😘🔥

Me hubiera encantado que esta canción esté en el stage 2 o 1 ;-;❤❤ Es melancólica y encajaría perfecto en EATEOT

listening this in the morning, everything is blue outside and cold in the moment i'm writting this comment, i just wanna feel warm again, i actually like the ambience

feels like with more droning it could be in silent hill 2, the descent into the otherworld

if giltsholder decided to make music

I wish desperately he would do a performance in America.

Tino Rossi ? Dans un morceau du Caretaker ? La vache, je pensait pas le trouver ici !

Ce soir mon coeur a tant de peine Ce soir tout semble triste et noir J'ai peur malgré notre amour même J'ai peur de ne plus te revoir. Ce soir il faut que tu reviennes J'attends dans l'ombre de la nuit J'attends puisque c'est toi que j'aime Traînant mon éternel ennui. Un jour sans toi c'est une éternité Dis-moi pourquoi, chérie, tu m'as quitté. Ce soir mon coeur a tant de peine Ce soir tout semble triste et noir J'ai peur malgré notre amour même J'ai peur de ne plus te revoir. English translation: This evening I've so much heartache This evening everything seems sad and bleak I'm afraid despite our love itself I'm afraid I won't see you again. This evening I need you to come back I'm waiting in the shadows of the night I'm waiting since it's you that I love Whilst carrying my endless worry. A day without you is a lifetime Tell me why, darling, you left me. This evening I've so much heartache This evening everything seems sad and bleak I'm afraid despite our love itself I'm afraid I won't see you again.

30 years, 30 years after the blast, you’ve learned things that you never thought you’d do, engineering, survival, piano, music. Today you think “this is it, it’s time I past.” You go outside, into a music concert, looking at all the radiated stuff, take a “bite” at your favorite restaurant, as you get radiated more and more. You eventually come back to the place, attempting to play Lacrimosa. “Hm, never thought I’d learn to play this song.” You die of radiation poisoning.

I see a very sad orangutang with a lute. And yet it has the same eerie energy as those paintings of the wrecks of famous ships.

I always felt strange about this one. Kinda like an unknown but still good track because that's basically what it is

There is no better cover for this song i think

Tonight my heart is in so much pain Tonight, everything seems blue and dark I'm afraid despite our love itself I'm afraid I won't see you again Tonight you have to come back I wait in the shadow of the night I'm waiting since it's you that I love Whilst carrying my endless worry A day without you is an eternity Tell me why, honey, you left me Tonight my heart is in so much pain Tonight everything seems blue and dark I'm afraid despite our love itself I'm afraid I won't see you again Why is this long journey necessary Disturbing the course of happy days Why should your image Be forever far from my sight? A day without you is an eternity Tell me why, dear, you left me Tonight my heart is in so much pain Tonight everything seems blue and dark Yet despite ... even so Tonight I still have hope To see you again

The Caretaker's music, Ivan Seal's art, and lots of other abstract-style recordings and pictures, can work like a Rorschach Test ink blot. Everyone perceives something different in it.

4:43 Post Awareness Confusions imagine if there's multiple songs in this part

i’m not sure if this is actually a cut song, but i like it nonetheless. Though it does follow his typical music selection process, song whose lyrics contain themes that are generally depressing, he also includes a lot of music from non-english speaking countries. I don’t know where this would belong in any album though, maybe we’ll all go riding on a rainbow. This song conveys a very familiar emotion to me, walking home alone on a cloudy winter day, looking around and wishing everything would be green and bright again. Wishing I had someone to accompany me so i wouldn’t feel so cold.

The song progression reminds me of Losss by Björk. The Caretaker portrays despair so perfectly with distorted sounds. It's exactly how emotions feel.😢

Me being a native Greek and knowing this song isn’t Greek: Ok this is sick My Greek brain: Bouta ruin this whole mans career

this isn't music, this is a process

The desire to create beautiful music, the desire must have come from somewhere, yet is swallowed up by an all consuming depression, nothing feels like it's worth it anymore, deep down a part of you still wants to do what you love, but the static of emotion paralyzes you.

There's something frighteningly and somehow irreprehensiblly familiar about this song ............................

wtf? this song just slips into stage 5 like confusions. i wonder if this was supposed to be a bliss state at first.

The Artwork is very good

The art looks like something playing some kind of banjo

A better name would be: mon coeur a tant de peine. It means my heart has so much trouble, which sounds a lot like other Caretaker titles.

the static almost sounds like rain

When the pug learns the mandolin.

weird stuff I found: 1:04 Faint sound of a dog barking (at least that's what it sounds like to me) on right channel 1:18 Another faint sound of a dog barking (I am even less confident that it is barking for this one) on left channel

beautiful

1:04 i hear someone cough put your volume at max and you can hear it

I feel like the first part of this would really fit a clarity moment either stage 4 or 5

… ce sentiment que je ressens, n’est pas descriptible

The only track of this guy where we will hear singed words

Section A 0:00 Section B 1:23 Section C 4:44

I’m shitting myself it’s 4am and it’s dark in my room and I was searching for some epic ambient music to have an existential crisis to but randomly found this and suddenly I feel like I’m in some brutal horror movie and there’s a killer waiting for me to fall asleep so he can kill me and I’m definitely not hiding under the blanket rn. Anyway this is epic bye

Artwork is interesting. I see a bulldog with a bouzouki...

Sounds like somebody jaded and almost perpetually stuck in an uncanny fatigue. To tired to lament or moan in anguish; a despair bigger than them.

Nothing haunts more than the Hell sirens on this track..

anybody else see a dejected Yosemite Sam holding up a lute

Boys who can speak spanish 😍

J'ai peur de ne plus te revoir. 😘🔥

First part of the song would be perfect for stage 2

"excuse my french"

Does anyone know who is singing on this version? I can't find any information about it anywhere.