Speaking of a Dead Language was included in an EP launched by Joy Williams back in 2009. It was a double EP actually Songs from This, Song from That. And this song was in the second part/cd, Song from That.
I heard it first on Grey’s Anatomy season 6 premier. Oh, Grey’s Anatomy certainly have a lot of great songs don’t they? Anyway, this song is called Speaking a Dead Language. It was sad and yet beautiful. Haunting in a way too. One of my favourite from Joy Williams. I really wonder when would she going to comes out a full album. She have been launching EPs for few years now.
Is kinda sucks you know when knowing all this amazing artists that had been struggling for being recognize in the entertainment world for years. Yet they never managed to shine. All the music industry now were filled with money-sucking albums. Not even worth a penny to listen to.
Anyway, here is the song. I love the part ‘oh i wonder…’. I think it is singing about a couple that started out as a perfect couple all lovely dovey and as time pass by they just drift apart. Is kinda obvious ‘and somewhere in the talking, the meaning faded out’. And I do think the song title was actually a metaphor for love. It was actually implying the love as a language. ‘You’re speaking a dead language, dead language, you don’t sound like yourself’ as like the other half have change. He/she not longer committed in the relationship anymore. For once they were happily together , they were just in love ‘we were so sure, so innocent’. Yet, all these comes to an end ‘oh i wonder, when all this stop making sense’. And the song end with a rhetorical question ‘can we ever go back again’. Which clearly means that this is the end for them.
We built a tall, tall tower
towards the sun, towards the sun
took some words and built a wall
between our love, between our love
And somewhere in all the talking
the meaning faded out
Oh I wonder
when did it all stop making sense
I don't understand
cuz I remember
we were so sure, so innocent
o but that was then
can we ever go back again
can we ever go back again
You're Speaking a dead, dead language
you don't sound like yourself
I hope it's just lost in translation
why don't you show, don't try to tell
brick by brick we started crumbling
if we don't stop, it's gonna fall
Oh I wonder
when did it all stop making sense
I don't understand
cuz I remember
we were so sure, so innocent
o but that was then
can we ever go back again
can we ever go back again
hold your breath
look around
try to add it up
pin it down
but you can't
Oh I wonder
when did it all stop making sense
I don't understand
cuz I remember
we were so sure, so innocent
o but that was then
can we ever go back again
can we ever go back again
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