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Old 07-12-2016, 04:06 PM
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Re: Barbara Barbara - The Lyrics
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Old 07-24-2016, 03:55 PM
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Re: Barbara Barbara - The Lyrics
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i thought it was "good to see" but now that i re-listen it sounds more like "Could."
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Old 07-24-2016, 05:23 PM
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Re: Barbara Barbara - The Lyrics
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Courtesy of all hidden things.
Yes, thank you!
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Old 07-25-2016, 04:07 PM
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Re: Barbara Barbara - The Lyrics
I Exhale
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Life
It's a touch
Everything is golden

Open
Rider
Stumble
Catch

Yeah, great
Well
Yeah
You talk too fast
The how to one is
Great

December
Monday morning

OK
Whatchu got?
Shiver and smile

(Stare, stare like a bear, then you'll know me anywhere)

Studs like tiny stars
Your shoes appear

(Stare, stare like a bear, call your mother ginger hair)

Sharp shadow
Clean dirt
Metal poles
Statuesque

(Stare, stare like a bear, then you'll know me anywhere)

Glass crown
In a blue sky

Asbestos roofs

(Stare, stare like a bear, call your mother ginger hair)

Corrugated rhythms

Big blue
(Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...)
Big blue
(Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...)

Spangled top
Leather jacket
Run your fingers through your hair
We're nearly there
Hiding in the dark

Shelter from the wind
Hold hands
In a doorway
A crafty one

Bus(???)
Hopped up
Hidden
Flashing lights
Look
The lights
One above every door
Towers

Clean
Cut
White
Line
Tell you how high things are
In the distance

Good
Look
Too many jobs
Knock on
Inside out
Two levels
Rubble
Smash it up
Get it down
Do as much as you can
Step out
Fresh

A line of rocks
Connected by
Red and white tape
You're bigger than that

Things
Start happening
Mouths
Keep talking
Sun low
and cold
I'm so great

A light
a glow
over the horizon
I want to tell you everything
rhythm of consent
Constant lips???
sleeping
Park it
Cover it
tie it up
Float it
chain it to a fence

Tie stripey tape to it
Put it on the roof
Set fire to it
Pile 'em up

A light
a glow over the horizon
A light
a glow
over the horizon
a light
a glow
over
the horizon
a light
a glow
over the horizon

a light
a glow
over the horizon
a light
a glow
over
the horizon
a light
a glow
over the horizon
a light
a glow
over the horizon
a light
a glow
over
the horizon
a light
a glow
the horizon
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Old 07-25-2016, 04:11 PM
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Re: Barbara Barbara - The Lyrics
OK, I Exhale (above) was pretty long. I've got most of it, but there are few sections (with question marks ???) that could use some help. (Edit: fixed up most of it, I think)

I gave up on formatting and the counter-point after the beginning, and just focused on getting Karl's lyrics right. I'll fix that up later.

Any suggestions/corrections welcome.

P.S. The live versions are no help. I didn't realize this before, but those performances are significantly edited down from the album version, cutting out over 3 minutes of verses.
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Old 09-01-2016, 09:59 AM
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Re: Barbara Barbara - The Lyrics
How about the lyrics to Ova Nova? I can't quite figure out all the lyrics. The fragments that I can understand and believe are correct. If anyone can add to this make corrections that would be great.


children children
fresh and home
and traditional children
roam and warm
and choice..
i apologise
you forget to rest
everything you want

...
your name
...
your selection
...
break your heart
you're a passenger of bedlam
everything i want
coming my way


life
change your mind


that's a paradox of choice
that's a business of options
...
future
collected nations

everybody everybody everybody
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Old 03-07-2017, 05:37 AM
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Re: Barbara Barbara - The Lyrics
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How about the lyrics to Ova Nova? I can't quite figure out all the lyrics. The fragments that I can understand and believe are correct. If anyone can add to this make corrections that would be great.
It's a lot easier to make out the lyrics on the Pig & Dan remix. For example, it's "I'm chilled" instead of "children". I'll give it a go in a bit.
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Old 04-11-2018, 04:43 PM
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Re: Barbara Barbara - The Lyrics - Twenty Three Blue
A slight necropost, but this track never leaves my head and I can't believe there aren't most postings about the lyrics and the song. I so wish they'd release it as a single (or within a single release). Not on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon - almost doesn't exist. But those who've heard it clearly love it.

Here are the lyrics gleaned from Karl's diary entries 4th-11th December 2014

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Twenty Three Blue
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Little imitation plastic wood girl
The wind is coming, wait
Time moves slowly on the island

Bell the dagger, Bell the digger, horn puller
Up the white line... home
Nothing is a problem

The sound of you, like geese
The sound of you, ringing

Crystal dirt in the flat bed
Shapes I never seen like these before
Cover the city tonight

Sleek, pale
Gold-head
Blue come & wrap around us

Who will take me home? 
Walking slow
Breathing, upstairs & laughter
Rippling....

Footsteps in grey, for listening
Dipped in black.
Smiling

Descends the stairs
Winter walks in, 
The phone rings, I hesitate
The name, then answer

"Carry cup to see you ‘Late-a’ " 
Do you feel the cold of winter?

Clutching steaming paper
It's up to you
Before the world wakes up
Do u feel the cold of winter x3

Do u feel the cold of winter x2

Red & black
Between the trees
Billy Billy Billy
Left-foot, drag the stone

Walking for the wind
Cold knuckles
Slow browns and greys
Laugh poster-face man
Selling Monday in the market
Winter streets - dries bones
Do u feel the cold...?
No idea about that carry cup line, but it's as it was written in the diary!
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