| Tears for Fears – Listen Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I agree with ben6821 that it's an instrumental song. More on this point later. I also agree with @donaldheil–I've never thought it was español (or any actual words) being sung–I always thought it was silly, onomatopoeic, nonsense sounds. Nonsense, but specifically attempting to mimic the rhythm of the percussion being played–sometimes simultaneously while the onomatopeia was being spoken: boom-dee-al-uh-chick-uh-nack-uh-ko-ko-say boom-dee-al-uh-chick-uh-muck-uh-ko-ko-say boom-dee-al-uh-chick-uh-nick-uh-ko-ko-say (I can't quite make out the 'nack,' 'muck,' 'nick' sound) The percussion, playing over and over, has the same number of counts, and has much the same rhythm as the spoken onomatopoeia. The percussion riff rarely changes throughout the last half of the song. Think this through, too: were they real words, in any language, there'd be a good chance they'd have been listed with the four lines of published words (plus the missing "listen...") on the song's lyric sheet, but they're *not* listed, which could make an argument for their not being real words. Then there's the (more or less) instrumental intent of the song. As ben6821 mentions, he believes it's an instrumental song, and instrumental songs, well, they, er, don't have lyrics. True, there are four official lines of lyrics, but pretend for the sake of the argument that they're insignificant for the moment, and let the non-lyric-ness of the song wash over you. Instrumental songs engage a different part of the brain than songs with words. In this way, the nonsense sounds support the song's being instrumental. The female voice (?) toward the end of the song sings portions of the onomatopoeia, singing different portions at different times. (Who's voice is this?) My official source is me. I just hope I don't end up on amiright.com. :-P DP Las Vegas, NV Oct 2014 |
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| Tears for Fears – Listen Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I agree with ben6821 that it's an instrumental song. More on this point later. I also agree with @donaldheil–I've never thought it was español (or any actual words) being sung–I always thought it was silly, onomatopoeic, nonsense sounds. Nonsense, but specifically attempting to mimic the rhythm of the percussion being played–sometimes simultaneously while the onomatopeia was being spoken: boom-dee-al-uh-chick-uh-nack-uh-ko-ko-say boom-dee-al-uh-chick-uh-muck-uh-ko-ko-say boom-dee-al-uh-chick-uh-nick-uh-ko-ko-say (I can't quite make out the 'nack,' 'muck,' 'nick' sound) The percussion, playing over and over, has the same number of counts, and has much the same rhythm as the spoken onomatopoeia. The percussion riff rarely changes throughout the last half of the song. Think this through, too: were they real words, in any language, there'd be a good chance they'd have been listed with the four lines of published words (plus the missing "listen...") on the song's lyric sheet, but they're *not* listed, which could make an argument for their not being real words. Then there's the (more or less) instrumental intent of the song. As ben6821 mentions, he believes it's an instrumental song, and instrumental songs, well, they, er, don't have lyrics. True, there are four official lines of lyrics, but pretend for the sake of the argument that they're insignificant for the moment, and let the non-lyric-ness of the song wash over you. Instrumental songs engage a different part of the brain than songs with words. In this way, the nonsense sounds support the song's being instrumental. The female voice (?) toward the end of the song sings portions of the onomatopoeia, singing different portions at different times. (Who's voice is this?) My official source is me. I just hope I don't end up on www.amiright.com. :-P DP Las Vegas, NV Oct 2014 |
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