Judge Smith - Tell Me You Love Me | Текст песни

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• Tell Me You Love Me

And though
We know
Exactly what we want to say.
The words
When they emerge
Don't quite come out that way.
The language circuit doesn't work too good,
No wonder we all think that we're misunderstood.

So tell me you love me
But tell me again in French,
Now in a Welsh accent.
Say it in Maggie Smith's voice
Then say it like Judi Dench,
Tell me you love me.

And then
Just when
Our message should have hit the mark,
I fear
It's all too clear
We've left them in the dark
The thing that's said is not the thing that's heard,
That's the trouble with the spoken word.

So tell me you love me
But tell me again in Dutch,
Shout it in Swedish,
Whisper it in Norwegian,
I like that one very much,
Tell me you love me.

Plug in your Modem,
Select your transmit mode,
Give us a handshake.
Tell me in Fortran, tell me in Basic,
Tell me in Binary Code,
Tell me you love me.

And on
The words have gone
All meaning long since lost.
Yes Squire,
We've got our wires
Spectacularly crossed.
It read 'Send reinforcements, we're going to advance'.
You said 'Send three-and-fourpence, we're going to a dance'.

So tell me you love me
But tell me again in Greek,
Ancient or Modern,
Demotiki or Katharevousa,
I don't care which one you speak,
Just tell me you love me.

Tell me in Chinese,
And while we still have the chance
Let's talk in Tibetan.
Say it in Zulu, say it in Khosa,
Say it in Afrikaans,
Tell me you love me.

Buzz me in Morse code,
Flash me in heliograph,
Flag me a signal.
Will you try in in Esperanto
If I promise not to laugh?
Tell me you love me.

JUDGE SAYS:

A song about communication, its joys and its extreme difficulty. This is the second rather Eastern European flavoured song from 'Dome Of Discovery' which gets another outing on this album, so that Michael can turn his wild accordion loose on it. A few references may be worth elucidating: Demotiki is modern spoken Greek, while Katharevousa is the literary form of the language. Xhosa is a South African language which is famous for the clicking sounds it uses. Heliograph was a (mainly military) method of signalling using flashes of sunlight from mirrors. 'Flagging' a signal refers to the system of naval signalling which uses (guess what) flags.

For non-UK listeners

Maggie Smith and Judi Dench are famous, and rather wonderful, British actresses, both noted for having very distinctive voices. In the last verse, 'three-and-fourpence' is a sum (three shillings and four pennies) in British 'old money', as used before decimalization in 1971. (This is a very old joke, by the way.)