i eat at chez nous?
 

does anybody know what "i eat at chez nous" means off the big generator song 'love will find a way"? thanx in advance!

Ches Nous
 

I don't think it's related (as I don't think it was open then) but there is a restaraunt in San Francisco named "Ches Nous".

Perhaps it was established by a YesFan!

Dragonfly:yesbird:

thanx dragonfly, interesting. i'm sure somebody will know.

chez nous
 

I always wondered why Trevor wrote/sang that as it seems kind of silly. Chez nous is French and means "with you/ at your place" unless there is some recent, cryptic meaning associated with this phrase (and I don't usually use the term cryptic when describing Trevor Rabin's songs!).
;)

chez nous
 

Could it be as simple as saying "I eat at our place". The song appears to be about trying to stay together in the face of some problem. "Eating" at "our place" could mean simply that "I" am not "fooling around"... "I" stay home to eat. The sharing of food is a basic bonding activity and could infer other (more personal) bonding activities are being kept "at home" also.

fwiw

thanx richard and yesindeed - sounds as close to what it means as we'll ever know.

...good insight, 'Yesindeed'.
My guess is, that Trevor had a girlfriend/'whatever', who knew french, used this phrase accordingly, and Trevor simply 'grabbed it up', as any decent lyric-hunter will do (Beware, oh ye lovers of Songwriters: your luncheon-menu may become the next hit song...).
All things are acceptable. All things aren't ART!

Re: i eat at chez nous?
 

Trevor has said it was just a bit of humour thrown into the song, as he was searching for a line, had about 8 of them, and was not satisfied with any of them.

kinda wierd b/c the lines leading up to it are so serious in a way and then to have that line. but it makes sense.

"chez nous"
 

this is french for "at our house" (Lit. "the house of we")
Sooner,
~Zig!~

yeah tanbar, richard mentioned that earlier, i guess it's answered!
thanx for the back-up.

ycantibu - one interesting name. ok i profess to be a yes addict but i can't idnentify the verse. go ahead slam me....?

Are you referring to my signature or my nick? ycantibu = Why Can't I Be You by The Cure. My signature is from the song The Holy Hour, also by The Cure. Yeah, I'm a bit of gothic. Thanks for the compliment. :)

Robert Smith defeats Barbara Streisand!
 

...actually, "THE CURE" was the only band I liked during the 80's...
(Couldn't bear to see 'S. Howe' go, and I had to play in a 'techno' cover-band [to make a dollar] that did a 'spot-on' version of 'Owner of a Lonely Heart': we had the 'orchestral' samples on the keyboards, we played it well, and all I could think of at the time was, "Whattabout 'Close to the Edge'?).
I LOVE 'Owner' now, (it was on the radio today, at work, & I turned it WAY UP!) but at the time it felt like a cop-out...
Love 'The Cure'. Not very YES-like, but great...
How about the "Disintegration" album? Kinda epic, for those MTV times..."love Song", I still play an acoustic version of that one...beautiful thing that it is.

ycantibu - really cool, now i gotta go check out "the cure" didn't even know they existed....
and according to earl gray s(teve) howe played in the cure? disintegration album? not very yes like, hmmm.

...Sorry Hoopdawg: I was just mentioning Steve leaving YES in the 80's, as the reason why The Cure was the only contemporary band I really got into during that decade; I kind'a quit on YES during their 'radio-freindly' years....
Steve never played in the Cure... See Ya! "E"

The Cure is considered by many of us to be gothic - they get in on a technicality. Not Yes like at all. They are somewhere between bauhaus and black tape for a blue girl, if that helps any. BTW, Howe wasn't in The Cure, who are nothing like Asia & GTR.

I would recommend the CD's: Faith, 17 Seconds, Disintegration, Pornography & Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. If you're willing to take advice from a gothic/new wave Trevor Rabin fan that is. Do so at your own risk.

earl gray and ycantibu - thanx for the clarification, i will check em out!

Re: i eat at chez nous?
 

We know what it means now, right?

Re: i eat at chez nous?
 

It's funny to read how formal everyone was with one another in 2001.