We haven't had this for a while here on GD, right?

Right now I love this song:

I've been completely and totally enraptured by Olafur Arnalds for the last week or so. He's an Icelandic multi-instrumentalist/composer who creates the most beautifully melancholic modern classical and ambient tunes. I highly recommend checking out his work if that sounds like your cup 'o tea. But since your question was what "song" are you feeling, it's this one, which I was very shocked to find on the Tubes. I actually prefer the album version - it's a bit warmer than the live performance.

Olafur Arnalds - Himininn er að hrynja, en stjörnurnar fara þér vel (the sky is falling but the stars look good on you)

The words the strange Stephen Hawking voice in the middle is speaking are as follows...

A live version as well...

johnart said:

LOOOOVE Sia! Wish more people knew about her choons for sure.

Cee-Lo's Fuck You.

Vendetta1 said:

Cee-Lo's Fuck You.

Love that one, too. Wondering if he's going to work out a clean version of it. Because it's actually a really great song. Screw you?

Cerebus said:

Vendetta1 said:

Cee-Lo's Fuck You.

Love that one, too. Wondering if he's going to work out a clean version of it. Because it's actually a really great song. Screw you?

It won't have the same effect if he cleans it up.

There is Lonely - Prince

This song moves me beyond words...

Patience (Sabali)

HOOK (Sample: MAMADOU & MARIAM, "SABALI") Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, Yokonte' (Patience is worth everything)

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, Kiye (Patience is good)

Ni Kera Mogo (If you love someone)

VERSE 1 - JR. GONG

Some of the smartest dummies, can't read the language of Egyptian Mummies

An' a fly to a moon, and can't find food for the starving tummies

Pay no mind to the youths, 'cause it's not like the future depends on it

But save the Animals in the zoo, 'cause the Chimpanzee dem a make big money!

This is how the media pillages

On the TV the picture is, Savages in villages

And the scientist still can't explain the pyramids (huh)

Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids

Stereotyping the image of the images, and this is what the image is...

You buy a khaki pants and all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones

An' a thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones

Some of the worst paparazzis I've ever seen and I've ever known

Put the worst on display so the world can see and that's all they will ever show

So the ones in the west will never move east and feel like they could be at home

Dem get tricked by the beast, but a where dem a gon flee when the monster is fully-grown?

Solomonic linage whe dem still can't defeat and them coulda never clone

My spiritual DNA that print in my soul and I will forever OWN (Lord).

HOOK (Sample: MAMADOU & MARIAM, "SABALI")

Nas-
Yeah, sabali, that's patience, it's what the old folks told me. Can you get with that?
Discovering a world before this world, a world buried in time, uncovered with rhymes...it gets no realer.

VERSE 2 - JR. GONG

(Huh) Are we born not knowing? Are we born knowing all?

Are we growing wiser, are we just growing tall?

Can you read thoughts? Can you read palms?

Can you predict the future? Can you see storms... coming?

The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off, now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh

The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of

And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of

Scholars teach in Universities and claim that they're smart and cunning

Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that's when their nose start running

And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut

Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wet mud

Can you read Signs? Can you read Stars?

Can you make peace? Can you fight war?

Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? (Huh) Can you survive, AGAINST ALL ODDS...Now?

HOOK (Sample: MAMADOU & MARIAM, "SABALI")

VERSE 3 - NAS

It's crazy, when you feed people the truth, you don't know how they gonna react!
Scared of wrongdoers, people that's just ignorant...scared of the truth.
Be patient, for now.

Who wrote the Bible? Who wrote the Koran?

And was it a lightning storm That gave birth to the earth And then dinosaurs were born?

Who made up words? Who made up Numbers?

And what kind of spell is mankind under?

Everything on the planet we preserve and can it Microwave it and try it.

No matter what we'll survive it.

What's Hue? What's Man? What's Human?

Anything along the land we consumin'. Eatin', deletin'...

ruin!

Trying to get paper. Gotta have land, gotta have acres So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson Watch niggaz play the game like the Lakers

In a world full of fifty-two fakers,

Gypsies, seances, mystical prayers...

You superstitious? Throw salt over your shoulders, Make a wish for the day

'Cuz Like somebody got a doll of me Stickin' needles in my arteries, But I can't feel it

Sometimes it's like "pardon me, but I got a real big spirit".

I'm fearless... I'm fearless

Don't you try and grab hold of my soul!

It's like a military soldier since seven years old.

I held real dead bodies in my arms, felt their body turn cold (Oh) Why we born in the first place... If this is how we gotta go?

Damn!

HOOK (Sample: MAMADOU & MARIAM, "SABALI")

Nas-This goes to all the wisdom and knowledge seekers of the world, Sabali...patience, yeah

[Edited 8/27/10 23:37pm]

Vendetta1 said:

Cee-Lo's Fuck You.

Love the song, love CeeLo...that voice!

I'm hyped about his upcoming album.

Vendetta1 said:

Cee-Lo's Fuck You.

Yes!

And...

KidaDynamite said:

Vendetta1 said:

Cee-Lo's Fuck You.

Yes!

And...

NEW ESTELLE???

This is throwback and I'm not just talkin the Soul II Soul bit (which is lovely), it takes me back to the gay club in early, urrrrrrrrrrrly 90's.

Saw her last year. She's awesome live.

johnart said:

KidaDynamite said:

Yes!

And...

NEW ESTELLE???

This is throwback and I'm not just talkin the Soul II Soul bit (which is lovely), it takes me back to the gay club in early, urrrrrrrrrrrly 90's.

Saw her last year. She's awesome live.

I know!

This song had me in here trying to pop my thang like the gay guys do at the clubs and then I caught one of those cramps in my side, you know the ones the fat people get when they move to much at high speeds.

KidaDynamite said:

johnart said:

NEW ESTELLE???

This is throwback and I'm not just talkin the Soul II Soul bit (which is lovely), it takes me back to the gay club in early, urrrrrrrrrrrly 90's.

Saw her last year. She's awesome live.

I know!

This song had me in here trying to pop my thang like the gay guys do at the clubs and then I caught one of those cramps in my side, you know the ones the fat people get when they move to much at high speeds.

OK, I literally just had to put my drank down so I wouldn't .

johnart said:

KidaDynamite said:

I know!

This song had me in here trying to pop my thang like the gay guys do at the clubs and then I caught one of those cramps in my side, you know the ones the fat people get when they move to much at high speeds.

OK, I literally just had to put my drank down so I wouldn't .

I ain't never doing that shit again.

Vendetta1 said:

Cee-Lo's Fuck You.

Great choice!

babynoz said:

This song moves me beyond words...

Patience (Sabali)

HOOK (Sample: MAMADOU & MARIAM, "SABALI") Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, Yokonte' (Patience is worth everything)

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, Kiye (Patience is good)

Ni Kera Mogo (If you love someone)

VERSE 1 - JR. GONG

Some of the smartest dummies, can't read the language of Egyptian Mummies

An' a fly to a moon, and can't find food for the starving tummies

Pay no mind to the youths, 'cause it's not like the future depends on it

But save the Animals in the zoo, 'cause the Chimpanzee dem a make big money!

This is how the media pillages

On the TV the picture is, Savages in villages

And the scientist still can't explain the pyramids (huh)

Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids

Stereotyping the image of the images, and this is what the image is...

You buy a khaki pants and all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones

An' a thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones

Some of the worst paparazzis I've ever seen and I've ever known

Put the worst on display so the world can see and that's all they will ever show

So the ones in the west will never move east and feel like they could be at home

Dem get tricked by the beast, but a where dem a gon flee when the monster is fully-grown?

Solomonic linage whe dem still can't defeat and them coulda never clone

My spiritual DNA that print in my soul and I will forever OWN (Lord).

HOOK (Sample: MAMADOU & MARIAM, "SABALI")

Nas-
Yeah, sabali, that's patience, it's what the old folks told me. Can you get with that?
Discovering a world before this world, a world buried in time, uncovered with rhymes...it gets no realer.

VERSE 2 - JR. GONG

(Huh) Are we born not knowing? Are we born knowing all?

Are we growing wiser, are we just growing tall?

Can you read thoughts? Can you read palms?

Can you predict the future? Can you see storms... coming?

The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off, now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh

The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of

And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of

Scholars teach in Universities and claim that they're smart and cunning

Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that's when their nose start running

And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut

Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wet mud

Can you read Signs? Can you read Stars?

Can you make peace? Can you fight war?

Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? (Huh) Can you survive, AGAINST ALL ODDS...Now?

HOOK (Sample: MAMADOU & MARIAM, "SABALI")

VERSE 3 - NAS

It's crazy, when you feed people the truth, you don't know how they gonna react!
Scared of wrongdoers, people that's just ignorant...scared of the truth.
Be patient, for now.

Who wrote the Bible? Who wrote the Koran?

And was it a lightning storm That gave birth to the earth And then dinosaurs were born?

Who made up words? Who made up Numbers?

And what kind of spell is mankind under?

Everything on the planet we preserve and can it Microwave it and try it.

No matter what we'll survive it.

What's Hue? What's Man? What's Human?

Anything along the land we consumin'. Eatin', deletin'...

ruin!

Trying to get paper. Gotta have land, gotta have acres So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson Watch niggaz play the game like the Lakers

In a world full of fifty-two fakers,

Gypsies, seances, mystical prayers...

You superstitious? Throw salt over your shoulders, Make a wish for the day

'Cuz Like somebody got a doll of me Stickin' needles in my arteries, But I can't feel it

Sometimes it's like "pardon me, but I got a real big spirit".

I'm fearless... I'm fearless

Don't you try and grab hold of my soul!

It's like a military soldier since seven years old.

I held real dead bodies in my arms, felt their body turn cold (Oh) Why we born in the first place... If this is how we gotta go?

Damn!

HOOK (Sample: MAMADOU & MARIAM, "SABALI")

Nas-This goes to all the wisdom and knowledge seekers of the world, Sabali...patience, yeah

[Edited 8/27/10 23:37pm]

Love it! There are so many songs with meaningless lyrics, so nice to hear something like this! And you inspired me to post another Mattafix song that really moves me because of the message:

Living Darfur:

See the nation through the people's eyes,
See tears that flow like rivers from the skies.
Where it seems there are only borderlines
Where others turn and sigh,
You shall rise (x2)

There's disaster in your past
Boundaries in your path
What do you desire when lift you higher?
You don't have to be extraordinary, just forgiving
Those who never heard your cries,
You shall rise (x2)
And look toward the skies.
Where others fail, you prevail in time.
You shall rise.

(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) (x4)
You shall rise (x3)


Sooner or later we must try... Living
(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) (x4)

See the nation through the people's eyes,
See tears that flow like rivers from the skies.
Where it seems there are only borderlines
Where others turn and sigh,
You shall rise (x4)

(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) [4x]

Sooner or later we must try... Living

I've just found about this group

evenstar3 said:

fantastic tune

i'm sure to sing this one

all day

how fun

This one. again.

If i'm ever in a shitty mood, I put my headphones on and turn it up. I love it.

Lisa10 said:

This one. again.

If i'm ever in a shitty mood, I put my headphones on and turn it up. I love it.

I love them!!!

Vendetta1 said:

Lisa10 said:

This one. again.

If i'm ever in a shitty mood, I put my headphones on and turn it up. I love it.

I love them!!!

I tried recording my own version yesterday.

It wasn't as good

[Edited 8/28/10 8:54am]

Serious said:

There are so many songs with meaningless lyrics, so nice to hear something like this! And you inspired me to post another Mattafix song that really moves me because of the message:

Living Darfur:

See the nation through the people's eyes,
See tears that flow like rivers from the skies.
Where it seems there are only borderlines
Where others turn and sigh,
You shall rise (x2)

There's disaster in your past
Boundaries in your path
What do you desire when lift you higher?
You don't have to be extraordinary, just forgiving
Those who never heard your cries,
You shall rise (x2)
And look toward the skies.
Where others fail, you prevail in time.
You shall rise.

(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) (x4)
You shall rise (x3)


Sooner or later we must try... Living
(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) (x4)

See the nation through the people's eyes,
See tears that flow like rivers from the skies.
Where it seems there are only borderlines
Where others turn and sigh,
You shall rise (x4)

(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) [4x]

Sooner or later we must try... Living

That is so true, thanks for posting this song.

babynoz said:

Serious said:

There are so many songs with meaningless lyrics, so nice to hear something like this! And you inspired me to post another Mattafix song that really moves me because of the message:

Living Darfur:

See the nation through the people's eyes,
See tears that flow like rivers from the skies.
Where it seems there are only borderlines
Where others turn and sigh,
You shall rise (x2)

There's disaster in your past
Boundaries in your path
What do you desire when lift you higher?
You don't have to be extraordinary, just forgiving
Those who never heard your cries,
You shall rise (x2)
And look toward the skies.
Where others fail, you prevail in time.
You shall rise.

(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) (x4)
You shall rise (x3)


Sooner or later we must try... Living
(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) (x4)

See the nation through the people's eyes,
See tears that flow like rivers from the skies.
Where it seems there are only borderlines
Where others turn and sigh,
You shall rise (x4)

(You may never know,
If you lay low, lay low) [4x]

Sooner or later we must try... Living

That is so true, thanks for posting this song.

My pleasure!