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Speak My Language Lyrics
It was only yesterday
Waving arms across the street
Your white face left me blue...
How can I say all the things
I have to say to you?
Oh! all the people here
All look the same...
The little time I spend with you
We drink each other dry
Mammnnarghaassstmmetc!
Speak my language!
It was only yesterday
My eyes touched yours across the street
We cut the words
And waved goodbye
And dropped off the edge of the world
Mammnnarghaassstmmetc!
Speak my language!
Waving arms across the street
Your white face left me blue...
How can I say all the things
I have to say to you?
Oh! all the people here
All look the same...
The little time I spend with you
We drink each other dry
Speak my language!
My eyes touched yours across the street
We cut the words
And waved goodbye
And dropped off the edge of the world
Speak my language!
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i LOVE this song. it has the best music, and i love Robert's gibberish.
how exactly does one say "mammnnarghaasstmmetc"? the song is excellent, esp the gibberish sort of part in the middle. lovely!
how exactly does one say "mammnnarghaasstmmetc"? the song is excellent, esp the gibberish sort of part in the middle. lovely!
The lyrics repeat 'all' a fair amount of times in the first stanza, and the use of 'MY language' a possessive pronoun does seem to single out the narrator whilst generalising everybody else, except the singular other individual.
He waves to this other individual and then drops off the edge of the world. I think this quite humorously refers to the brief-as-possible interaction with someone whom we are obliged to know through work, school, prison or some other unfortunate place.
'Your white face left me blue.' The person who's spotted him is white with the fear of having to interact; the narrator is blue after the interaction because he's drained.
'How can I say all the things I have to say to you' In other words, how can I tell you to go away, when social etiquette obeys that I don't?
'The little time I spend with you We drink each other dry' They sap each other's energy in such a swift interaction.
'Mammnnarghaassstmmetc Speak my language.' Referring to the sound one might make upon spotting this colleague across the street? The narrator wants the person initiating the conversation to understand that neither of them desire it.