dogboydog wrote:Great job on the lyrics so far guys. The only lines I'm not satisfied with are the part right after "where work might count", transcribed here as "Oh Mercy, Oh God" and the "rerounders" part. It's definitely very hard to tell what she's singing there since that part in particular takes on a very instrumental style, but I almost here "Oh, ask the old [something], God". I wonder if even being able to read lips would help. I particularly want to get them mostly correct because I'm going to do a guitar cover (with the chords I figured out from watching another user's piano cover, which I'll post when I post my cover)
Also, watch carefully as she signs the part in question -- if she was saying "mercy" she would close her mouth there to make the m sound, she doesn't. Hmm. I'm pretty positive it does begin with "oh" and end with "god" though.
Jordan~ wrote:"Ack-see-on" could be "action".
The "O mercy, O God" part was largely my doing, but I'll admit that it was just so I'd have something to sing when I got to that bit. Not that I can hit those notes even if I start in a ridiculously low register, unless I reduce my voice to the tiniest squeak. How she manages to get there starting off that high is beyond me. I don't have a particularly deep voice either - just sort of average!
butterbean wrote:... two cents about the mystery bits. Maybe she's not saying "God" there - could it be "go on" or "go and"? Hmm.
dogboydog wrote:By the way, after further listening/thinking, I don't think the stone refers to the Rosetta Stone. I believe it refers to the memorial in the park that a bunch of the rest of the song is concerned with.
Alex Ysoltsev wrote:dogboydog wrote:By the way, after further listening/thinking, I don't think the stone refers to the Rosetta Stone. I believe it refers to the memorial in the park that a bunch of the rest of the song is concerned with.
I totally agree with that. I'm also convinced that the stone she's singing about refers to the memorial in New York.
What I meant was that her words can remind a listener (as it happened with me) of the story about the Rosetta Stone. Which fits perfectly with the Egyptian theme of the song.
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