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Posted: Mar. 04 2001, 14:51

Silly words:

"Doorididoo da-'mdap, dee-doorididoo da-'mdap" [Platinum]

"Tàtti Tirititàtti Tirititànti..." [Taurus II, "Vocoder Horn" (AP Tracklist)]

"Sana Rosana 'Rdaloo Bee Rawana..." [TII again]

"Borda, Bee-ena, Labarto, Oncorta..." [HR]

Silly lyrics:

"Sing to me like the very first sing" [Innocent]

"Some are short, some are tall,
some hit their head against the wall!" [On Horseback]

"And in the deepest dark you come to a maze in the night" [Pictures In The Dark]

"Waiting all night-time,
'Til the sun comes in" [Heaven's Open]

smile smile smile smile

P.S.: I posted this for sheer fun. What I consider silly can be considered by some people some of the most intelligent things Mike ever wrote. So:
1) If I offended anyone, I apologize. wink
2) If no-one replies, I'm glad. smile

P.P.S.: Olivier, if you think that this should belong in Lyrics and Language, [although I don't think so smile] please move it there.




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Posted: Mar. 04 2001, 20:24

"Love is a gift, and to take you so much"
from Magic Touch
(...what the f---! Remember to use grammar Mike...)

"Good brother show me how to get home, I've been walking in the backyard of Satan!"
from Runaway Son

"Speak to me, like the very first speak"
"Love to me, like the very first love"
from Innocent

"Who's keeping secrets, I've got my spies, does anybody think we live in paradise?!"
from Discovery

"Get down to the river, I know you ache, get down to the river, the river of love, don't hesitate"
from Mister Shame

"Oh, here I hang on this hook, line and sinker, don't take the skin off my fingers"
from Gimme Back

"Mona Lisa, you can stop searching, don't you know we're not Virgin"
from Make Make

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Posted: Mar. 05 2001, 08:26

"Tá mé an ommadawn le chiole"

Third line of "The Ommadawn Chant" (the first two are indecipherable)

Several translations from the Gaelic are possible:

I am the fool with music (literal)

I am the fool who laughs

I am the laughing idiot

I am the singing jester

Make what you will of it, but:
Tá mé - I am
ommadawn - fool
chiole - music

Also, some ideas from the "Piltdown" in TB2 (replacing "kin-ke-se")

Some other possibilities from the Welsh language include:

Cig asen (rib-meat)
Cae cesair (field of hail)
Cigysydd (carnivore)

I hate having to guess at such things ;-)


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Posted: Mar. 05 2001, 14:37

ChiRho, thanx for your very well-documented translations. But...you're taking this matter seriously. It isn't. wink Or, at least, it isn't meant to be serious. smile

Bennyboy: WONDERFUL!!! biggrin biggrin

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Posted: Mar. 05 2001, 17:47

And yet again:

"Four AM in the morning"
-Moonlight Shadow-

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Posted: Mar. 05 2001, 17:53

...And what was "carried away by a moonlight shadow" right after that line, Tim? The 4AM hour (its chiming??) or the morning???

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Posted: Mar. 05 2001, 17:57

The morning- Mike could only save the top wink

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Posted: Mar. 05 2001, 19:18

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Some are short, some are tall,
some hit their head against the wall!


I was listening to Ommadawn this morning and kept thinking about this line (and how it had absolutely nothing to do with horses at all), and then I noticed that someone had posted to Tubular Forums about it ...

You forgot some of the most important silly lyrics - the PILTDOWN MAN! (TB, TB2, and Amarok)

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"Mona Lisa, you can stop searching, don't you know we're not Virgin"


This one isn't really nonsensical - if you you think of the whole song in the context of being about Virgin (the company). Except perhaps for the "Mona Lisa" bit.

And what about the "Sondela" and "Far-so-far" parts of Amarok?
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Posted: Mar. 05 2001, 19:22

Sondela is a great lyric!!!!

Sondela uSomandla sukuma wena obengezela:
Come closer the Almighty, stand up you who glitters.

-Tim-

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Posted: Mar. 05 2001, 19:29

cp ---> I didn't post any of the Piltdown Man lyrics, nor so-far-so, because I don't even think they are words, so they can't be silly. smile I think they're just sounds.

"Sondela" actually has a meaning...I was about to put a link to the corresponding topic in Lyrics and Language, but Tim preceded me... smile smile

There are many more silly lines in On Horseback that have nothing to do with horses, e.g. the famous ones "Some like the city, some the noise / Some make chaos and others, toys". wink

Tim ---> I didn't include anything from MS in my original post because I thought it was a too obvious example of silly lyrics. I think that MS, musically, is a truly great song, but ALL of its lyrics are silly!!! Just think of all the things that the catch-phrase "carried away by a moonlight shadow" refers to, or seems to refer to... smile

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Posted: Mar. 06 2001, 03:05

I like the lyrics to MS. Well, all of them except the one I quoted earlier. If you consider the "moonlight shadow" to be maybe a person hiding in the shadows or something, it makes a little more sense, and goes with
"All she saw was a silhouette of a gun, he was shot six times by a man on the run..."

Four AM in the morning is the only lyric from MS I find silly. Even the "only chosen cos it rhymes with the next line" "Caught in the middle of a hundred and five" is alright.

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Posted: Mar. 07 2001, 08:27

Tim - I don't mean to imply that I don't like the Sondela bits of Amarok, just that it is silly. (Not quite silly in the sense of the Ministry of Silly Walks or dead parrots, though.)

Even though Sondela has a meaning, it is used more as a chant to help hold the piece together.
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Posted: Mar. 07 2001, 09:01

SONDELA:

Your new adhesive- guaranteed to hold more together 25 times better than SupaGlue.

Just look at the results:

MO, Reading, UK: I used Sondela to hold some music together, and now it's one of my most popular pieces!

Now you can experience SONDELA for yourself. Just call 999-SON-DELA, or email SONDELA@SONDELA.COM .

SONDELA: So Far So Good
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Posted: Mar. 08 2001, 02:17

SOME SILLY LYRICS FROM DON ALFONSO:

"i met a sweet senora in barcelona
her christian name was moona
she was thumbs up, BONER!"

"She told me she was single
which made me tingle
my heart went jingle-jingle,
so i said LETS MINGLE"

"I'm Don Alfonso
Some call me Pedro,
But that is not so,
I'm Don Alfonso"

"I saw ze bull, KILL ZE BULL!
YES SIR YES SIR THREE BAGS FULL!
and then we have steak and chips for tea"
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Posted: Mar. 08 2001, 10:42

Does your silence mean that you consider seriously 'Altered State' lyrics...? biggrin

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Posted: Mar. 08 2001, 15:40

Double reply... smile

Bennyboy ---> You got some of the lyrics wrong. The lyrics as posted here on tubular.net say what follows:

"Her Christian name was Mona / She was thumbs up bona" <<< "bona" is Italian for "very very sexy" smile.

And at the end of the chorus:

"Oh my sword I pull / Kill sì bull" <<< "Sì" is Italian for "Yes".

Anyway...I think I made it clear that I'm talking about silly lyrics in songs supposed to be serious, e.g. PITD and all the other ones you quoted from in your previous post. wink I don't think Don Alfonso is meant as a serious song...in fact it's quite the contrary. smile

And anyway... this topic is not meant to be serious. smile

Delfín ---> I've already stated that IMO Altered State and the Piltdown Man in general is neither lyrics nor words. It's just vocal sounds. smile That's why I didn't mention it.

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Posted: Mar. 11 2001, 20:09

More silly words:

"tutu-tutu-tutu-tutu-tutu-tutututututu-tutu-tutu......" [The Lake] smile

Couldn't Maggie find anything better to sing??? smile biggrin

[Thanx to Orion69 for signalling this to me! smile]


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Posted: Mar. 11 2001, 20:15

One thing I forgot in my reply to Bennyboy...

"Mona" means "pussy" [AHEM! Sorry, Olivier... smile] in some Northern Italy regions and cities, such as Verona and Venice.

Kind-of very fitting as the name of a very sexy woman, ain't it? smile smile


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Posted: April 17 2001, 18:10

While on holiday I discovered some more lines whose silliness I'd never realized before... smile

"When you see one bird
there's another one flying over
and the two can fly much higher..."

--from When the Night's On Fire and (partly) Islands.

As I have already dropped a big brick in this topic by expressing my views on Moonlight Shadow's lyrics, let me be clearer: Can anyone please tell me what the f--- do these lines mean, if they mean anything at all? smile smile

More silly words, MO-unrelated, literally translated from Italian [Thanx again to Orion69 wink]:

Amedeo Minghi & Mietta, Sanremo Festival of 1990: "And then I'll call you again my little loving spinning top and doodoodoo dadada..." biggrin

Francesco & Giada, in this year's Sanremo Festival: "There's a turuturuturu in my head, and this turururururu won't ever stop..." "Turururu" is also the song's title. biggrin biggrin

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Posted: April 17 2001, 19:14

Seeing as Ugo has already brought the level of this topic down to gutter level ( wink) I'll add this contribution to the Don Alfonso lyrics thing...

Boner is a slang word for an erection...which in that context could mean 'very sexy' as well...so we'll call that one a draw.

I believe 'kill ze bull' is more accurate - it is kill the bull, just said in a silly accent.

I think the thing about birds may be saying how they can achieve 'higher' things together...but don't quote me on that one wink
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