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This really shouldn’t be a new topic but, well, I am a Moderator
His album, Yidid, the eighth track, called “Shema” has some lyrics I can’t understand
1. “a citadel of mashin stone”
2. “everyone in the chlanger, the tears on her face”
Can anyone help? Both instances are in the first minute or two of the track.. Thanks
Perhaps we can try a thread on the REAL lyrics to various songs, and what you thought they were at one time.
Or how your kids mistakenly sing songs, etc.
In a citadel of ASHEN STONE!!!
a citadel of ashen stone…
yet one image lingered, the tears on her face…
I never quite understood why some musicians feel the need to make the words unintelligable.
Joseph
Here’s a thought: If you sacrifice preciseness in creating art, that is called poetic license. So if you could use poetic license but don’t, does that make you a better artist or a worse one?
squeak, I am referring to songs that the music is too loud to hear the words, or they are otherwise uttered in an unintelligable manner. Not sure if your point regarding preciseness is related to that.
mod-80 are you serious?? you really hear mashin stone??? haha but context clues!!!! lol i bet it’s hard for you to understand people with accents too- right?
You sure it’s not “ancient stone?”
80, I’m rotfl from the second one, dunno why.
As far as the lyrics go, the first one is “a citadel of ashen stone”. The second one is (as much as I can make of it) “yet one/once……. lingered.”
thanks for the laugh, and btw, you gotta catch up on your music!!!
oh my oh my!!
thanks for the laugh is right!!
as mentioned above:
“ashen stone”
“yet one image lingered”
now why oh why would a citadel want to mash stone?
It still sounds to me like “lashen stone”, but I am pretty sure it is “ashen”. I always read the lyrics when I get a new CD to get the words down.
I don’t like when the music is too loud that you can’t hear the words. I also don’t like when the singers don’t pronounce the words. I usually enjoy songs more for the words than for the music. That is why I like Abie Rotenberg especially the Journeys CDs. Abie always pronounces every letter. I think that the Shema song being discussed in this thread was written by Abie and sung by Shwekey.
lol, 80. That’s the chassidic version of the alphabet.
btw, if you read through the lyrics of a lot of these songs, you’ll notice that they really dont make sense.
Ho hum… just waiting for the girl with kalidis…. 🙂
The Wolf
A very often (and very famous) mistaken heard lyric from the Beatles. The correct lyric is “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes.” It’s often misheard as “the girl with colitis* goes by.”
The Wolf
*Thanks for the correct spelling, Mod.
“I don’t need a thing
I’d rather play than sing….”
or
“I don’t want to think
I’d rather play in the sink…”
“kadisheehee, romimeeheee….”
Does anyone know the real words?
mepal – if you pay attention to the chazzan right around kedusha on Shabbos or Sunday morning, you will find out 🙂
Or, you can check with Jothar. Eyin sham.
meeeepaaaaaaaal, how many times do we have to go through this singing thing?!?!?! 😉
howdya remember that, squeak? Its been a while… Anyways, right around kedusha I hear “Attah Kadosh”. Nothing like that jingle.
kapusta, check with your plumber.
I meant on R”H, which will be on Shabbos and Sunday. The piyyut starts off “Kel nah, l’oilam tu’aratz”.
I could type the whole thing out, but it’s too tedious, especially in Eengleesh.
Oh, I catch up on sleep when they start reciting the piyuttim.
Does anyone know the lyrics to The King Of Tonys by Destiny…
When I sit back inside the “hay”?
I think it’s “haze”. But don’t the CD’s usually come with the words to the songs?
I thought the song was veyisah maagal haShem (He will carry haShem’s wheel) til I saw it inside…
and hachziki madreiga….chab’i me’at rega
What are the lyrics to track 10 (kishoit) on Baruch Levine (2)
I’m not talking about the yiddish, theres one line, “elah elah…” around 2:20. what is the next word?!?!?!
Kapusta- First of all the word are written in the paper that comes with the cd. Second of all the words are aramaic so they are hard to make out but I did read the cover because it gets me annoyed when I don’t know the words to songs so here goes. dihu Elaka kishot vioyrayseh kishot and then comes the yiddish part. It’s kinda funny to mix yiddish with aramaic!
postsem, first of all, thanks a lot. second, the CD jacket is a good idea as long as you have it. Mine disappeared…
postsem, can you make out that one line? (“elah elah…” around 2:20. what is the next word?!?!?!) It’s driving me crazy!
ok here’s one that never fails to make me laugh.
We were teaching a song to a bunch of kiruv kids that goes like this:
“I’m a Jew, it’s my identity,
my name, my soul, my life”!
Only to overhear some kids singing it later:
“I’m a Jew, It’s my identity,
my neighbor stole my wife!”
I REALLY hope they became frum after that…!
Kapusta: Eleka dishimaya??
ambush: ROTFL! that is priceless humor!
Kapusta- That’s too bad. Shaatra is right, it’s elah elah bEloka dishmaya. If you want to check it out it is from the tefilah of Brich Shemay
noitallmr: hey nice seeing ya buddy! stay, stay!
this goes back to probly before you were all born – but i remember there was a song by the Everly Bros (maybe) and the lyric was
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good –
and i remember somebody singing I’m just a soldier whose tent is no good !
seeallsides – I didn’t know they had the ability to make recordings back before all of us were born! How did you come to hear such a lyric? Was it passed down from generation to generation until it could be recorded in the late 1800’s? That would be amazing!
Also, did you know that a group called the Everly Brothers was around in the 1950’s and 60’s? Do you know how they were able to steal the name (and that lyric) from the original group that you heard? Maybe they were aineklach (or great-great-aineklach)?
There is the famous “Dawnzerly light” mentioned in the national anthem.
80, you’ve got me stumped.
thanx to everyone who filled me in on the lyrics. 🙂
how about the pledge of allegiance.
“I pledge…and to the republic for richard sans”
I used to think the lyrics were:
Miami….
The greatest town
n’this country
Jumpin up and down
Miami…
But it really is
Miami….
The greatest town
It’s got me
Jumpin up and down
Miami…
I didn’t see the lyrics anywhere (the original album is from the late 70’s) but I was listening carefully one day (I bought Miami Meets Toronto CD a couple years ago which also has it) and heard the real words.
Now it makes more sense.
;
oboy! I never got that song, for the same reason! Thanks for explaining!
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