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The song details someone with an unknown street address, someone with "not even a trace" of their existence. The song then transitions into a spoken word part, the reader saying that he'd "give anything in the world" to see the face of the song's subject. The chorus repeats again, and the song fades out.
The song features a spoken-word track set over a mellow backing track. The "Wear Sunscreen" speech is narrated by Australian voice actor Lee Perry . [ 3 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The backing is the choral version of "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)", a 1991 song by Rozalla , used in Luhrmann's film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet .
A sung-through stage musical, musical film, opera, or other work of performance art is one in which songs entirely or almost entirely replace any spoken dialogue. Conversations, speeches, and musings are communicated musically, for example through a combination of recitative , aria , and arioso .
"Parklife" is a song by the English rock band Blur, released in August 1994 by Food and Parlophone as the third single from the band's third studio album, Parklife (1994). The song contains spoken-word verses by the actor Phil Daniels, who also appears in the music video, which was directed by Pedro Romhanyi.
Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a 20th-century continuation of an ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetics of recitation and word play , such as the performer's live intonation and voice inflection.
Poems and Songs of Middle Earth [a] is a studio album of spoken-word poetry by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien and art songs composed by the English musician Donald Swann. On the first half of the album, Tolkien recites seven poems from or related to his fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
Instead of the original, experimental sound collage aesthetic of the original, the new version of Speak to Me is a spoken word piece with "chilling baritone vocals" from Waters. [11] The lyrics of the new version of the track also contains the lyrics of the track "Free Four", a song about mortality and death. [14]
DiFranco provides background vocals on the first and last tracks as part of her remixing, but no songs as such. The record was followed by Fellow Workers, a second collaboration between the two musicians, which focused on songs associated with the Industrial Workers of the World and contained singing as well as spoken-word pieces.