Transcribing a song

[zafar666]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztj1rGQzjMc

I do not understand what is singing in (?).

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The world was on fire
and no one could save me but you.

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It's strange what desire
make foolish people do.

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I never dreamed
that I'd meet somebody like you.

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And I never dreamed
that I'd lose somebody like you.

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No, I (?) to fall in love.

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(This (?) is only gonna break your heart)

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No, I (?) fall in love.

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00:01:05,405 --> 00:01:08,272
(This (?) is only gonna break your heart)

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With you.

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(This (?) is only gonna break your heart)

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What a wicked game to play,
to make me feel this way.

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What a wicked thing to do,
to let me dream of you.

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What a wicked thing to say,
you never felt this way.

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What a wicked thing to do,
to make me dream of you and...

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I (?) fall in love.

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(This (?) is only gonna break your heart)

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No, I (?) fall in love.

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(This (?) is only gonna break your heart)

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With you.

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The world was on fire
and no one could save me but you.

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00:02:43,183 --> 00:02:48,169
It's strange what desire
will make foolish people do.

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I never dreamed
that I'd love somebody like you.

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And I never dreamed
that I'd lose somebody like you.

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No, I (?) fall in love.

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(This (?) is only gonna break your heart)

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No, I (?) fall in love.

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(This (?) is only gonna break your heart)

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With you.

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(This (?) is only gonna break your heart)

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No, I...

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(This (?) is only gonna break your heart)

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(This (?) is only gonna break your heart)

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Nobody loves no one.

 

[emsr2d2]

zafar666, this is far too much to expect us to deal with in one post. What is the title of the song and who is the singer?

 

[Raymott]

Here's the process, zafar.
1. Get the title and singer from the video - Chris Isaak - "Wicked Game"
2. Enter "Chris Isaak - "Wicked Game"" into Google (or your favourite browser).
3. Immediately find a link like this:CHRIS ISAAK LYRICS - Wicked Game - A-Z Lyrics
www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/chrisisaak/wickedgame.html
4. Go to that link

 

[Liara_Tsoni]

<sigh>

No, I don't want to fall in love
This world is only gonna break your heart

Your welcome

 

[emsr2d2]

[STRIKE]<sigh>[/STRIKE] Unnecessary

Not a teacher

"No, I don't want to fall in love
This world is only gonna break your heart"

[STRIKE]Your[/STRIKE] You're welcome.

See above.

Please remember that, as a native speaker, learners will assume that everything you write is correct. It's really important to make sure you're not making mistakes/typos like using "your" instead of "you're".

 

[zafar666]

Here's the process, zafar.
1. Get the title and singer from the video - Chris Isaak - "Wicked Game"
2. Enter "Chris Isaak - "Wicked Game"" into Google (or your favourite browser).
3. Immediately find a link like this:CHRIS ISAAK LYRICS - Wicked Game - A-Z Lyrics
www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/chrisisaak/wickedgame.html
4. Go to that link

Ok, there is written ""No, I don't want to fall in love". I thought he had sung "No, I do wanna fall in love".

 

[zafar666]

zafar666, this is far too much to expect us to deal with in one post. What is the title of the song and who is the singer?

Chris Isaak - "Wicked Game"

 

[BobK]

See above.

Please remember that, as a native speaker, learners will assume that everything you write is correct. It's really important to make sure you're not making mistakes/typos like using "your" instead of "you're".

But this is not to say that 'Your welcome' is always wrong. But, as a noun phrase, it just needs to be followed by something, like 'Your welcome was less than warm.' ;-)


b

 

[BobK]

Ok, there is written ""No, I don't want to fall in love". I thought he had sung "No, I do wanna fall in love".

Right. There is your query:

I've read the transcript at ....
But I don't agree with the transcription, after listening to the YouTube clip.
My particular query relates to the clip at 00.51-00.55: he seems to me to be saying "No, I do wanna fall in love".

You can't expect us to trawl through 4 minutes of adolescent angst just for the fun of it. Please focus your queries.

b

PS But in that case I can tell you that it couldn't be "No, I do wanna fall in love" - unless the speaker was responding to someone saying 'Of course, you don't want to fall in love' - then he could say "No, I do wanna fall in love" (which is unlikely, especially in this context).

What is happening is something that often happens with 'don't'. The positive is pronounced /du:/ and the negative is pronounced /dǝʊnt/. In other words, just the vowel (/u:/ or /ǝʊ/) is necessaary for a listener to understand. When you speak, you are trying to communicate. If you're feeling lazy, you can get away with saying either /du:/ or /dǝʊ/; but typically what happens, for the negative, is that the speaker says /dǝʊ/ and then closes the mouth, letting the air escape through the nose (making a sound a bit lik /n/). In this case, as the next word is 'wanna' the closed mouth is the right place to start (because the mouth opens during the glide /w/ - that's why it's called a 'glide': the mouth glides from closed to open [it also widens]).

 

[Raymott]

Ok, there is written ""No, I don't want to fall in love". I thought he had sung "No, I do wanna fall in love".

Well, he didn't. If you watch another version on YouTube with English lyrics, for example the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etxHaOghrIM
you'll see that he doesn't want to fall in love. In the one you gave, the translation reads, "Nấo, eu nấo quero me apaixonar."
I want to fall in love would be "Eu quero me apaixonar" (Brazilians, correct me if I'm wrong", though Google translate supports this.)*

The problem is that anyone can give their opinion on the web, and the page is set up so that it looks authoritative. Yes, it sounds like he's missing the "don't" on a few occasions, but that's not consistent with the rest of the of the song. He certainly doesn't sing "No, I do want...", though he might be singing "No, I...I want to ..." But if he is, it's through the laziness of his articulation, and you're meant to fill in the 'don't' mentally.

*Oh. I just realised that you are Brazilian, zafar).

 

[zafar666]

Last question. he sang "want to" or "wanna"?

 

[emsr2d2]

Last question. Did he [strike]sang[/strike] sing "want to" or "wanna"?

Please note my correction to your question construction. I can't answer your question because I haven't been able to listen to the song but someone will.

 

[Raymott]

Last question. he sang "want to" or "wanna"?

It doesn't matter. It means the same thing. 'Wanna' is simply an incorrect spelling of 'want to' (though some might disagree). I guess it's an attempt to write the words more phonetically. If you can't hear a 't', he's probably singing 'wanna'. If this were done for all words in a song, eg. 'lurv' for 'love', 'Ah' for 'I' you wouldn't under a transcript even if it were correct.

 

[zafar666]

Thank you. I'm trying to write exactly the words he speaks.