Transcriber: Nhung Vu Reviewer: An Nguyen
I am from the Boston area and Pau is from Barcelona.
I am a touring singer-songwriter
and has spent the past few years traveling a lot around Europe,
playing shows in tiny little rooms and people’s living rooms,
and staying on people’s couches,
and learning a lot about life in the world and people.
This past August, I went to Spain for the first time.
I went to Barcelona to record with collaborators
that I had never met before, who spoke a language that,
frankly, to expose myself I didn’t even know existed.
And very, very quickly, I found, yes, Catalan, not Spanish.
I knew about Spanish,
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I found a soul family and a creative home that I couldn’t have imagined.
So we’re going to share some of those songs.
It’s a real treat to have not only Pau here
but the rest of our Barcelona team.
For me, the idea of all of this is that sometimes you have
to go outside of what you know to be true about yourself
and who you are and your surroundings.
To get closer to some truth of who you are.
So this is the first track we made together.
And it’s called Alive.
(Music)
You said: “Take it. It’s yours.”
Like there is such a thing
Like the world doesn’t hang
From an ownerless string
So I open my hands
And I give it all back again
And dare I ask
If falling in love is a thing of the past
The higher the stakes
The sweeter the task
’Cause here in the night
One single song
Will put a bird into flight
There is nothing left to be but alive
(Music)
As I walk the streets
In my little town
The shadows they move through
Each little house
How simple it must
Seen from above looking down
And dare I ask
If falling in love is a thing of the past
The higher the stakes
The sweeter the task
’Cause here in the night
One single song
Will put a bird into flight
There is nothing left
to be but alive
(Music)
And dare I ask
If falling in love is a thing of the past
The higher the stakes
The sweeter the task
’Cause here in the night
One single song
Will put a bird into flight
There is nothing left
to be but alive.
Pau Figueres.
And we'll play one more song for you here.
It is such an honor to be at TEDxBoston
and at any John Warner event.
I never know what I'm in for,
but I always go because it’s always amazing
in so many unexpected ways.
So thank you for having me down.
This is another song of the EP that we made together,
and it’s similarly about finding home in unexpected places
and about all that I’ve learned from my travels as a singer-songwriter.
It's called The Little Sadness.
On the long ride to Munich
I was glad to be alone
I saw the future like a blanket
On the foggy mountain roads
When it was too late to go back
And too early to call home I thought
Everyone I love is asleep out there
And I’ve got all of this new life
I’ve gotta put somewhere
A man whose name I can’t pronounce
And a waitress he’d once loved
Took me dancing in a part of town
That they were both fond of
When it was too late to go back
And I had nowhere to call home I thought
Everyone they love is asleep out there
And I’m just passing through
on my way somewhere
On my way somewhere
And here comes the little sadness
Here comes the little sadness again
’Cause you can’t take it with you
But for a moment I’ll pretend
No you can’t take it with you in the end
On the night of some election
We were walking in the park
It was dusk and there were people out
Guns strapped upon the guards
I was noticed by some strangers
As they waited for the train
Someone was talking about America
and asked me to explain
And I said
Everyone I love is asleep out there
And I forgot I have a life
of my own somewhere
Of my own somewhere
And here comes the little sadness
Here comes the little sadness again
Like a story I won’t tell you
Like a letter I can’t send
’Cause you can’t
take it with you in the end
No you can’t
take it with you
in the end
Pau Figueres. My name is Hayley Reardon.
Thank you so much.