Here's what I've come up for System lyrics. I think I've got almost everything correct (except the bold). Please correct my mistake(s).

Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore

Son, you better go for it
Harmony
Dissatisfaction
And if I could
Full of lies
Cause I guess that's what they want

Son, you father’s known for it
Misery
Can you read my lips
Cause this is my way of breaking ties
Is it true that's what you want

Well now of this color coating can’t be right
When the only truth is that we don’t sleep at night

Can it feel real

We’re just trying to be persistent
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling for the system
So it’s time for a new better way
We’re just trying to be persistent
And it’s time for a new better way

Lie
Now you people need to get high
Everybody needs a little sunshine
From a blurry sky
Cause that’s just what they want

Well now this color coating can’t be right
When the only truth is that we don’t sleep at night

Can it feel real

We’re just trying to be persistent
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling for the system
So it’s time for a new better way

We’re just trying to be persistent
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling for the system
So it’s time for a new better way

We’re just trying to be persistent
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling for the system
So it’s time for a new better way

Better way
Better way
Better way
Better way

Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore

(System)

Thanks Robert Great job!

Love, Janet

Hey, thanks! I really am not good at it, but I figured I'd give it a try. I usually appreciate Seal's music a lot more when I know what he is singing about. You sure don't hear lyrics like these much anymore...

quote:

Originally posted by Robert Sterling:
Here's what I've come up for System lyrics. I think I've got almost everything correct (except the bold). Please correct my mistake(s).

Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore

Son, you better go for it
Harmony
Dissatisfaction
In a pocket
Full of lies
Cause I guess that's what they want

Son, your father’s known for it
Misery
Can you read my lips
Cause this is my way of breaking ties
Is it true that's what you want

We know this color coating can’t be right
When the only truth is that we don’t sleep at night

Can it feel real

We’re just trying to beat the system
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling for the system
So it’s time for a new better way
We’re just trying to beat the system
And it’s time for a new better way

Lie
Now your people need to get high
Everybody needs a little sunshine
From a blood red sky
Cause that’s just what they want

We know this color coating can’t be right
When the only truth is that we don’t sleep at night

Can it feel real

We’re just trying to beat the system
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling from the system
So it’s time for a new better way

We’re just trying to beat the system
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling from system
So it’s time for a new better way

We’re just trying to be the system
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling from the system
So it’s time for a new better way

Better way
Better way
Better way
Better way

Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore

(System)

beat and be seem to be interchangeable at times Robert so it could be both eh?

Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore

Son, you better go for it
Harmony
Dissatisfaction
In a pocket
Full of lies
Cause I guess that's what they want

Son, your father’s known for it
Misery
Can you read my lips
Cause this is my way of breaking ties
Is it true that's what you want

We know this color coating can’t be right
When the only truth is that we don’t sleep at night

Can it feel real

We’re just trying to beat the system
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling for the system
So it’s time for a new better way
We’re just trying to beat the system
And it’s time for a new better way

Lie
Now your people need to get high
Everybody needs a little sunshine
From a blood red sky
Cause that’s just what they want

We know this color coating can’t be right
When the only truth is that we don’t sleep at night

Can it feel real

We’re just trying to beat the system
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling from the system
So it’s time for a new better way

We’re just trying to beat the system
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling from system
So it’s time for a new better way

We’re just trying to beat the system
But it’s hard from a distance
We keep falling from system
So it’s time for a new better way

Better way
Better way
Better way

Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore
Someday, evermore

(System)

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Originally posted by Althea:
beat and be seem to be interchangeable at times Robert so it could be both eh?

Well, thankfully you picked up a lot of my mistakes. Honestly a lot of seal songs sound pretty muddy to me, and so I couldn't even begin to answer your question.

I just can't believe that I mistook beat the system with be persistant! Oh well, I guess it's obvious that I was one who thought it was, "kiss from a rose on the grave..."

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hehe. i understand "beat the system" too. and i think it makes more sense in the song than "be persistant".

and what is funny:

seal is singing:

We’re just trying to beat the system
But it’s hard from a distance

and i always expected seal to sing this:

We’re just trying to beat the system
But it’s hard to resist it

i dont know why, but i was always confused when he was singing "hard from a distance" cause i thought "hard to resist it" would be perfect for that line lol

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Originally posted by Robert Sterling:
We know this color coating can’t be right

Hmm, when I listen to the song I hear this:

We know this color coding can't be right

As in stigmatizing people by their skin color. Makes more sense to me than coating

Hi Tom...I hear the exact same lyrics as you do and I believe you are correct with your analogy. It does make more sense.

I found two more I hear differently:

Son, you better go for it
Harmony
Dissatisfaction
In a pocket (And a pocket)
Full of lies
Cause I guess that's what they want

We know this color coating can’t be right
When the only truth is that we don’t sleep at night

You're right about those two sections, Silvia I was kinda hoping Seal would put the lyrics in the booklet this time around...oh well..this adds some more life to the forum I suppose

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Originally posted by Tom Verbroekken:

quote:

Originally posted by Robert Sterling:
We know this color coating can’t be right

Hmm, when I listen to the song I hear this:

We know this color coding can't be right

As in stigmatizing people by their skin color. Makes more sense to me than coating

I agree that it's "color coding," but listening to the lyrics, I think it's a very descriptive challenge to the Bush administration, and to the public to do something about them. The son and the father are Dubya and George H.W. Bush. The elder Bush was famous for the phrase "read my lips," and the color coding is, I believe, the terror alerts - green, yellow, orange and red - that make no sense, and he's saying, "All we know for sure is we can't sleep at night" because of the situation ("color coding" could also mean racially profiling people as terror suspects). And Dubya is known for breaking our ties to our allies. As for beating the system, if you aren't there, in Washington, it's tough - you're too distant from the problem and you have to get into it to change it, or get the voters out to do something about it, to implement "a new, better way."

I keep thinking of this song as "Obama's Theme" .

subtle suggestive political. The media will branish a microphone and laude the complant of the political. What they are really doing is labeling and marring you a scar to identify one as being politically conscious. It becomes never-ending a tag to staple the ears of the listeners shut to individual progress.

If Seal is delving into the more administrative govermentally related issues. I would hope that there is a solid conscious behind the movement into this arena. One powerfu voice could be the tempo and heartbeat of a generation. One person , alone could make a stance against what indellibly is a time stricken to shadow by events tumulted by continued indifference and unforseable circumstance.

Many such voices are absent of the concerns of this world, whose cares are beyond us now. Whose, legendary words forsook livliness to propell words into many, like hope nesting in the bossom resting in an awkward place. But one man can pierce that heart again, as it had been done by the righteous acts that withstood villainy. "...I may not get there with you. But we as a people will get to the promise land. But, I won't you to know here tonight! That my eyes have seen the coming of the Lord...." Into the uncertainty of life therein purpose stood undetterred and without the terror of what it was tha once stood there; shirken, in defiant testimony. ALl credit and praise is given to the children of the righteous. May you find your way and speak. If Seal has chosen this path then may there then be balance in this world. How auspicious an occurance, when we travel this road; to be born.

It is time for a new voice to be heard - distinctly!



G.

I am always so fascinated to read discussions about the deconstructing of lyrics...I have never gone that far with any song..LOL!

Interesting....