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Monamour, I can't trust you anymore
Every minute without my little one is ash
Monamour, I can't trust you anymore
Court battles like vile mustard gas
Monamour, I can't trust you anymore |
Peter Cross is the songwriter, the lead singer and he also sings all the harmony tracks, plus he's the arranger and the producer.
Commentary:
Monamour combines the name Mona and the words "my love" in French. Big surprise, Mona is my ex wife and
I actually used to call her monamour when we were teenage lovers. This song may be a definitive statement about divorce
because it addresses a subject that is not covered very well in music. There are lots of songs about being left, being
hurt, lying, and cheating, but not really anything about having a spiritual trust broken in court. I believe this may be my
best effort in terms of achieving a "classic" song, which is every songwriters dream. Among other things, a classic song
has the ability to be recorded successfully by other artists. I believe this song could easily be re-recorded in English or
in French, and I also believe that any really good singer, male or female, could do their version of this song and it would
sound good.
Like many other of my songs, I wrote Monamour while driving my car, although this time I was exploring the Napa Valley wine country and I had some difficulty staying within the white lines when these complicated harmonies began to unfold in my mind (but not because of any wine tasting, your honor). This is the best and most complicated vocal harmony concept attempted by the Crossants in all of the Crossfire songs. And in the chorus, I purposely sang a few flat and sharp vocal tracks to achieve my desired effect of sounding like an entire male divorce group singing about their ex wives together.
Music, lyrics, text, and web page design copyright 1996 © Peter Cross
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