The... the earth... the earth is burning...

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...then what comes next? Never knew what the rest of the sample from Impact is saying. I always imagine it's "...what the fuck?" but surely it must be cleaner than that! Brown album didn't come with a parental advisory after all!

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burning , i'm burning , and the earth is burning , i'm hot.

thats my best effort!
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isnt there something like 'cry for survival', 'try for survival' or 'our survival'?
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"Its like a cry,
A cry for survival,
Survival for them and for us us us us us us us us us"

Or something like that...
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nice, thx Mem :)
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Kyblik wrote:nice, thx Mem :)
:D NP
user name wrote:burning , i'm burning , and the earth is burning , i'm hot.
Eh??
When does that happen?
The only other vocals I can recall are the melodic bits of what sounds like a moaning woman... is she saying that?

If it is then blow me down its only taken 15 years and 1000s of play and I still never caught on.

Mind you it took me ages to figure out that the "Nothing Left" vocal was actually saying "Nothing Left"! I thought she was talking in gobbledygook like the rest of song.

I am slow to catch on, I will admit that.
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Is user name ....? :mrgreen:
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memly wrote:The only other vocals I can recall are the melodic bits of what sounds like a moaning woman... is she saying that?

If it is then blow me down its only taken 15 years and 1000s of play and I still never caught on.
thats the one , i know as i cought it on a mad french film about alien abduction that was dubbed into english and heard it late one night.

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memly wrote: Mind you it took me ages to figure out that the "Nothing Left" vocal was actually saying "Nothing Left"! I thought she was talking in gobbledygook like the rest of song.
haha, that's quite OK. I just figured that out about 4 months ago myself, after 10 years of listening to the track! :D
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Kansler wrote:haha, that's quite OK. I just figured that out about 4 months ago myself, after 10 years of listening to the track! :D
how that can be possible?? :applause :roll
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There are so many Orbital tracks with females breathlessly oozing stuff (admittedly Miss Goldfrapp is responsible for the majority of them) that I normally just accept the vocals as another layer of melody without analysing whats being said.

In the case of "Nothing Left" parts 1 and 2... apart from the title phrase... can anyone decipher what else she is purring about??

...I thought not! :Finger
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gah!
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memly wrote:There are so many Orbital tracks with females breathlessly oozing stuff (admittedly Miss Goldfrapp is responsible for the majority of them) that I normally just accept the vocals as another layer of melody without analysing whats being said.

In the case of "Nothing Left" parts 1 and 2... apart from the title phrase... can anyone decipher what else she is purring about??

...I thought not! :Finger
"ooh ah was it something?
ooh ooh ooh
Safe here
Nothing left"

that there's my guess anyway....
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no! I refuse to accept there are even MORE meaningful lyrics... I prefer nonsense, really. :oops:

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