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Posted: May 09 2005, 17:36

Somewhere in this forum people have pointed out the strange grammar in several songs from ca 86-89 (North Point, Innocent etc).
Since Mike is a native englishman I'm beginning to suspect that Anita (a native Norwegian!;) wrote lyrics for some of the songs she sang.

I'm not a native english speaker myself, so I'm not even sure if I would notice, but "love to me, like the very first love" doesn't sound right.

Does anyone know anything about this?

Lars T


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Posted: May 09 2005, 17:52

Sometimes you don't use correct English to write lyrics,but it's because you've got to fit into the music itself...that's what I've learned while I was having English classes.

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Posted: Jan. 22 2006, 20:11

I just DL'ed the video clip from Innocent. While in the beginning she sings "speak to me like the very first speak", at 2.37 it really sounds like "speak to me like the very first week".  I assume the music is identical to the CD version, so it should be heard there as well.

Does anyone else hear this? It sounds 100% like "week" to me.
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Posted: Jan. 23 2006, 18:57

It sounds like "week" to me too. Maybe Anita realized by herself that the line was ungrammatical, and provided a solution? :)

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Posted: Jan. 23 2006, 21:16

She could have invented that one before the line came by the first time :D.
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Posted: Jan. 24 2006, 16:03

That could explain why it,s(how can i put this ?) crap! ;)
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Posted: Jan. 24 2006, 17:03

Innocent is the best track on the album! It has a strange subtle melancholy that I'm drawn too.

I have a soft spot See the Light though. It shouldn't be totally out of place on Discovery.

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Posted: Aug. 24 2010, 10:50

Quote (larstangmark @ Jan. 24 2006, 23:03)
Innocent is the best track on the album! It has a strange subtle melancholy that I'm drawn too.

I have a soft spot See the Light though. It shouldn't be totally out of place on Discovery.

Lars T

If 'Innocent' is melancholic and the best song in the album, I'm a miner nurse and live with my husbands in a green submarine. Please, don't speak to me like the very first week, tho' you say farewell.

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