Holidays Confuse Me

[talktooloose]

I don't know what to do next! I should finish the comic I'm working on and I should do a complete overhaul of the computer system. I'm currently finishing up my MP3 organizing project.

What I think I'll do is record my translation of J'arrive. Before I do that, I need your opinions. I have a lyric that goes:

I am coming, my friend
But I'd be lying if I didn't say
I'd rather chase the river to the sea
See if the port still stands
Stand there once again
In the place where I was me.

QUESTION: Can a port stand? Is the port more associated with the buildings or with the land formation? And if it is the man-made part, do we think more of docks and therefore, again, not a standing structure?

My alternate is to say, "See if the port still sings".

Opinions?

Comments

[redrunner.livejournal.com]

I'd go with "sings". Otherwise, you could use quay or pier or something.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Ooh, it's a clever runner, it is!

I hadn't thought of changing "port" since it's in the French, but "pier" works nicely. "Quay" less nicely because it is not the primary association when you hear that word.

Where are you spending New Years?

ports, l'anee

[(Anonymous)]

Though I disagree w/ redrunner & think of a port as a sort of institution, and institutions are always either standing or falling down, I think that she, you, snowmit, zarabell & I should toast the newyear together in TO & then drive to Syracuse on Fri2 in company w/ James, who belongs to a car coop.
-Briseur

[redrunner.livejournal.com]

I don't know yet. I'm leaning toward going to a Carleton U party and re-living my teenage years, drinking too much and being a dashing flirt. Either that or hiding in a closet.

[corduroyarmy.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish I was in town.. NY at Carlton.. that institution smells of excess for me. Every night I spent there was like new years.

Early morning, face stuck to a bean bag chair- glued on by spilt coke.
'Drive me home'
'Surely you jest.'
'Ungh.'

[goodall.livejournal.com]

It works for me...I wish I could listen to it, then I could give you a better assessment.

[rfmcdpei.livejournal.com]

This Jacques Brel song, right?

I am coming, my friend
But I'd be lying if I didn't say
I'd rather chase the river to the sea
See if the port still stands
Stand there once again
In the place where I was me.

QUESTION: Can a port stand? Is the port more associated with the buildings or with the land formation? And if it is the man-made part, do we think more of docks and therefore, again, not a standing structure?

A port can stand, although my mental image is of human constructions as opposed to natural landscapes. I imagine the interface between land and sea--standing on the riverside road lying between the docks extending into the water and the warehouses on terra firma, I believe.

[corduroyarmy.livejournal.com]

I'd stick with port, meself.. a port is a construction, not a formation, so it would presumably stand
If it ceased standing, that might make it a bay..
But what do I know.

[painglass.livejournal.com]

I think a port can stand. Because they can take down ports and move them or change them. Stand makes sence to me, and sounds nice.

Oh, and I like that bit of lyric, will we get to read more sometime soon?