u2songs.com: Running to Stand Still
Site Related => Lyrics Transcriptions => Topic started by: Between Two Worlds on January 22, 2005, 04:29:34 PM
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The official lyrics read "You don't have time / For a jealous lover" but I am confident I hear "You don't have time / Before a jealous lover"
Does anyone else hear "before"?
A wondering wanderer Between Two Worlds
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For what it's worth at 1:40 I hear "before" also. That's after several listenings thru headphones.
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I finally got around to this - I've seen it floating around but never checked. I hear it too, or at least a syllable before "for". Crap. :)
Personally I like the old lyric better, from the viewpoint of a protest song (from two worlds eh?). It reminds of one of students at Tianenmen I saw a picture of. He had a bullet wound to his chest (or something causing bleeding and needing to be bandaged up) - he's leaning on a girl who is looking up at him concerned but is looking at a camera flashing the peace sign.
I really should write up an interp of this...
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O I'd love to read this... I know that there is so much more going on in this marvellous piece than I grasp.
By the way, I cannot make up my mind as to whether I can hear the "r"s in
All your daughters of Zion
All your Abraham sons
sometimes I do, sometimes I don't
I continue to admire your (plural - partiyulraly Carl and slaneman, I suppose) ability to get down in writing those barely discernible bits (usually as here at the beginning of songs). I can clearly hear the odd bit here and there, once I've seen your transcription - thanks!
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Ok, against what I *want* to be there 'before' is up.
BTW - I know what you're talking about at those "you's". It sounds more like "ya" to me... I tend to transcribe ya/you stuff more on live shows than album versions but I suppose this should go in. The second line is more clearly a "ya" and they do impact meaning... you/ya doesn't really but your does (which sounds more like ya).
I already edited the middle 8, the mutterings between the first verse, fixed up the choruses, added in text in the intro.... the official transcription on this song was definately lacking!
[Edited on 2005-3-18 by Carl]
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I guess I was partly wondering who would be addressed if it was "your" - the simple vocative seemed to make more sense.