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Ella

Michael Van Dorpe

I love your lips

When they’re wet with wine

And red

With a wild desire

I love your eyes

When the lovelight lies

And lit

With a passionate fire

I love your arms

When the warm white flesh

Touches mine

In a fond embrace;

I love your hair

When the strands enmesh

Your kisses

Against my face

Not for me

The cold, calm kiss

Of a virgin’s bloodless love;

Not for me

The saint’s white bliss

Nor the heart

Of a spotless dove

But give me the love

That so freely gives

Ooh and laughs at the

Whole world’s blame

With your body so young

And warm in my arms

It sets my poor

Heart aflame

So kiss me sweet

With your warm wet mouth

Still fragrant

With ruby wine

And say with

A fervor born of the South

That your body

And soul are mine

Clasp me close

In your warm young arms

While the pale stars shine above

And we’ll live our whole

Young lives away

In the joys of a living love

But give me the love

That so freely gives

Ooh and laughs at the whole world’s blame

With your body so young

And warm in my arms

It sets my poor

Heart aflame

  • Lyricist

    Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  • Composer

    Michael Van Dorpe

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    Ella

    Michael Van Dorpe

Here is my last song, inspired from the poem "I love you" from Ella Wheeler Wilcox (from November 5, 1850 to October 30, 1919).

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet, born on a farm in Wisconsin, which is north-west of Chicago. Her best-known lines are probably these, from her poem Solitude: 'Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone'. But here is Ella being sweet telling about her love in erotic terms.

It is not clear if the song was written for a man or a woman...
I loved that poem, and while playing on my keyboard randomly found an interesting theme. That reminded me of the Depeche Mode atmosphere of the 80', and after a year of iteration, pauses, and personal experiences, I came to mature the song to what it is today. It took actually some time to find the right break with bridge and chorus, in good balance with the main theme, and add the extra instrument to make it complete. As a back ground to the theme , we can hear a progressive arpeggio-type melody, that I often like to fuse-in with other of my musics. Some friends find these to have an Asian touch. Let me know what you thing.

I never thought adding some bass and drums to the song because the theme has some sub-rhythm and is stereophonic, but also goes from low to high frequencies, giving a good span on the spectrum but also on the rhythmic space. But after my friend Olivier check the song within a car sound system, it was clear it was lacking good bass. I had to go back to work, finding the right addition to this and finally make this final version ready for release.

I find it funny to bring this almost forgotten poem from 19th century to now, jumping from the old traditional farmer background of Ella Wheeler Wilcox to an modern dancing club, somewhere on this earth, mixing the 20th century electronic music revolution, to the latest music technologies of the 21th century.

There is a video clip made in cooperation with the great English Marc Hamill bringing to visual reality the sensual, hot feeling but also sharing the dancing and exciting feeling, for both genders and all people. I'm thankful for he's very professional and reliable work. The clip can be seen here: https://youtu.be/f5K9Gqkm9io

Enjoy ! And let me know your feedback !

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