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Post by ionut on Apr 29, 2010 9:57:05 GMT -5
Since the Webster Hall recordings became available, I've been able to listen to Don't Stop (The Party On My Account) and Scandal At The Parkade on repeat without the YouTube videos. I tried searching this board and elsewhere for lyrics, but am having no luck.
Anyone blessed with amazing hearing that would like to help out?
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Post by sarpedon on Apr 29, 2010 10:58:46 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure the chorus to Scandal is "all that they knew were cottages, cottages, batter them down, batter them down."  |
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Post by emilypoulain on Apr 29, 2010 11:17:35 GMT -5
ionut i am in the EXACT same boat. those two songs are ruling my life.
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Post by emilypoulain on Apr 29, 2010 11:18:13 GMT -5
and welcome to the board! stick around  |
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Post by nocturn on Apr 30, 2010 2:18:36 GMT -5
Ah, I love both songs.
I'm still not sure on the whole carriages, cottages, cabbages distinction though. I think it's probably "carriages, batten them down", but who can tell.
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Post by joebonte on Apr 30, 2010 3:10:38 GMT -5
With all of the traveling references in Scandal I'd always assumed carriages.
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Post by ben on Apr 30, 2010 5:29:16 GMT -5
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Post by deedee on Apr 30, 2010 10:23:38 GMT -5
To my ears, it occasionally sounds like cabbages  |
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Post by nocturn on Apr 30, 2010 11:22:51 GMT -5
I want to try and work out the lyrics to Scandal, but the version I have on my iTunes is from 2006  I'll use youtube videos. Now when I listen, it sounds like cottages! Argh. On youtube it sounds like all they they know are " carnages", but it doesn't sound like that on my old recording at all. Colleges? I think it must be cottages. |
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Post by joebonte on Apr 30, 2010 13:14:30 GMT -5
"We'll travel far, we'll travel fast to beat the X
We'll travel hard, and be [full graced (?)] to beat the X
and travel breaks, an evil craze (?) to beat the X
and have all heart, and be full (?) tongued to beat the X
and rising dust, a ?thing curse
And all that they know are carriages, carriages! Batten them down, batten them down!"
Lot's of WTF was that word, and mostly guess work, but I'm a sucker for wanting it to be some sort of highwayman chase song.
Any idea what he says where I've put the Xs? :S
Oh and the guessed lines have been taken from a few different versions of the song ^_^ So knowing how constant revisions happen some may be obsolete.
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Post by Thomas on Apr 30, 2010 15:45:16 GMT -5
I learnt Don't Stop on looped keyboard today. I just subbed out whatever lyrics owen actually sings for that Byzantine poem I am David Suzuki linked to a few threads down. Sounds pretty swell, with a looped minimal techno beat.
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Post by jules on Apr 30, 2010 16:13:57 GMT -5
Ah, I love both songs. I'm still not sure on the whole carriages, cottages, cabbages distinction though. I think it's probably "carriages, batten them down", but who can tell. Just to add less clarity I think its "Cottages, Burn them down" myself |
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Post by emilypoulain on Apr 30, 2010 16:31:30 GMT -5
it sounds exactly like "caddages caddages batten them down"
however,
those are unfortunately not words.
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Post by JackAltman on Apr 30, 2010 17:36:25 GMT -5
I'm not going to pock a horse on this one, because I think the fact that there's ambiguity in what we're all hearing is because it's a shifting lyric. Owen's singing all of those things at different times; each of those words is so similar, and all of them set a sort of "Heartland" countryside scene when added together.
But, just to muddy the waters, I swear in the Webster Hall performance that he says "cabbages, butter them down" the second repetition of the first chorus.
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Post by sarpedon on Apr 30, 2010 19:43:40 GMT -5
I'm not going to pock a horse on this one, because I think the fact that there's ambiguity in what we're all hearing is because it's a shifting lyric. Owen's singing all of those things at different times; each of those words is so similar, and all of them set a sort of "Heartland" countryside scene when added together. But, just to muddy the waters, I swear in the Webster Hall performance that he says "cabbages, butter them down" the second repetition of the first chorus. I'm so glad I'm not the only person who heard the "butter them down."  |
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I'll use youtube videos. Now when I listen, it sounds like cottages! Argh. 
