Burial – Shell of Light

General Commenti love the last part, "god, can you please hurry up and find me/i wasn't sure if we could be friends.

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  @paul_banks

General Commentawesome for posting up the lyrics! (y)

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  @da77yn

General Commentawesome for posting up the lyrics! (y)

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  @da77yn

General Commentawesome for posting up the lyrics! (y)

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  @da77yn

General Commentyeah the whole final third of the song is so good.

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  @da77yn

General Commentsample from the last part of the song is Whisper by Passion. amazing fuckin sample, i die when i hear that last minute or so

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  @sithie

My InterpretationI hear (you can hear the hissing):
Love you so
Love you so...


Instead of:

Love you more
Love you more...

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  @Naunaud

General Commentsorry, Whisper by Ernie Halter i mean.

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  it sounds like the first word he says is "malcom" and I was almost certain it was "god can you please find and bring her to me, I wasn't sure if we could be friends"

  Flag dtabrahamon February 26, 2010  

General Commentalso though I hear "love osama, love osama" lol

really love, maybe love is someone? but i think the second lyric is, "now that you know"

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  @dtabraham

General CommentI only recently discovered Burial, and I'm a total addict now. It's really unlike anything I've ever heard before. Good stuff.

In any case, I was just gonna say that Whisper's lyrics go -
"God, could you please whisper into her ear."
"I wasn't sure if we could be friends."

- so, I think those are the lines that are sampled and used at the end of the song. I don't think there is anything in the original song that says "hurry up and find me," but I understand how it could be heard like that. Burial has an awesome knack for murking up vocal samples and giving them an entirely new soul, almost to the point of changing the words you hear. For example, in "Distant Lights", I was dead sure for a while that the words were "(they) never let me dream," and that the original vocals were male. Turns out, it's Destiny's Child! The real lyrics go "Now that I need you."

Anyway, cheers to Burial for making a stellar track like this one. Alright, I'll stop blabbing now :P

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