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Thread started 05/13/04 7:15pm

Starmist7

What is the language spoken in the beginning of 'The Marrying Kind'?

...is it Italian? & more, what is being said??? Just wondering.
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Reply #1 posted 05/13/04 8:47pm

nakedpianoplay
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If U leave her now
U ain't never gonna see her again
She's gonna need a shoulder 2 cry on
She's gonna need a friend
She's gonna need a pillow case
Something 2 put those tears on
And Eye've got some purple satin laces
One second later than the second U're gone

She's gonna miss U at first
But then she's gonna buy me things
That's when Eye'm gonna lay her
Across my piano stool and sing 2 her...

Chorus
"Honey, Eye tried 2 tell him
That U were the marrying kind
A faithful one-man woman
Best he would ever find
Eye guess he wasn't trying 2 hear that
So there ain't nothing left 2 say
Eye tried 2 tell him that if U run 2 me
Eye won't run away."

If U leave her now
U'll never get another glimpse
Eye'm gonna lace her
With enough ice 2 recap the pole
There might be another solar eclipse
She's gonna find out
What Eye like in my eggs,
My bathwater
And how a brutha likes 2 b touched
Eye am gonna put her on
The same diet Missy went on
U know she eats 2 much tonight

She's gonna miss U at first
Then she'll get used 2 me
All of the tricks Eye would try
2 make her take this ring
And make love 2 me

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Reply #2 posted 05/13/04 9:36pm

julien

Right, it's Italian. The girl is saying:
" Don't worry for me. I'm fine, even without him.
(For the next sentence, I'm not 100% sure)
I arrived in this world alone, that's how I arrived.
But I don't want to leave him. Why? Why?..."
If I'm right, Prince's mother is from Italian origin, which probably explains the choice of the language. And anyway, can you think of a language which sounds better than Italian...personally, no!
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Reply #3 posted 05/13/04 10:52pm

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When I first heard the song I thought Spanish, but after awhile I thought it was Italian, and now I think it maybe Portugese??? Hell, I don't even know what she is sayin.
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Reply #4 posted 05/13/04 10:52pm

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julien said:

Right, it's Italian. The girl is saying:
" Don't worry for me. I'm fine, even without him.
(For the next sentence, I'm not 100% sure)
I arrived in this world alone, that's how I arrived.
But I don't want to leave him. Why? Why?..."
If I'm right, Prince's mother is from Italian origin, which probably explains the choice of the language. And anyway, can you think of a language which sounds better than Italian...personally, no!


Could it be Manuela the wifey???? omg
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Reply #5 posted 05/13/04 10:53pm

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That's Mani, speakin'Italian wink
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Reply #6 posted 05/13/04 10:53pm

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Thanks julien for translating smile
canada

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Reply #7 posted 05/14/04 1:00am

Sorcha

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That's Mani, speakin'Italian wink


Its not Mani .....if you check the musicology booklet it is someone called....Ornella Bonaccorsi
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Reply #8 posted 05/14/04 1:48am

jorge

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Reply #9 posted 05/14/04 1:49am

jorge

The last sentence, says:

"Why? Why don't men love us just like this, the way we deserve?"
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