La La La [Song]


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LA LA LA
By Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith

La la la na la la la na na na na na
La la la la la la la na na na na na
La la la na la la la na na na na na
La la la la la la la na na na na na.

Hush, don't speak
When you spit your venom, keep it shut, I hate it
When you hiss and preach about your new messiah
'Cause your theories catch fire.

I can't find your silver lining
I don't mean to judge
But when you read your speech, it's tiring
Enough is enough!

I'm covering my ears like a kid
When your words mean nothing, I go, "La la la!"
I'm turning up the volume when you speak
'Cause if my heart can't stop it,
I find a way to block it, I go...

La la la na la la la na na na na na
La la la la la la la na na na na na
I find a way to block it, I go...
La la la na la la la na na na na na
La la la la la la la na na na na na

Yes, our love is running out of time
I won't count the hours, rather be a coward
When our worlds collide
I'm gonna drown you out before I lose my mind.

I can't find your silver lining
I don't mean to judge
But when you read your speech, it's tiring
Enough is enough!

I'm covering my ears like a kid
When your words mean nothing, I go, "La la la!"
I'm turning up the volume when you speak
'Cause if my heart can't stop it,
I find a way to block it, I go...

La la la na la la la na na na na na
La la la la la la la na na na na na
I find a way to block it, I go...
La la la na la la la na na na na na
La la la la la la la na na na na na
I find a way to block it, oh
La la la na la la la na na na na na
La la la la la la la na na na na na
I found a way to block it, I go...
La la la na la la la na na na na na
La la la la la la la na na na na na

I'm covering my ears like a kid
When your words mean nothing, I go, "La la la!"
I'm turning up the volume when you speak
'Cause if my heart can't stop it,
I find a way to block it, I go...

I'm covering my ears like a kid
When your words mean nothing, I go, "La la la!"
I'm turning up the volume when you speak
'Cause if my heart can't stop it,
I find a way to block it, I go...
La la la na la la la na na na na
La la la la la la la na na na na
La la la na la la la na na na na
La la, la la la la la na na na na ....


"La La La" is a single released by British producer Naughty Boy, featuring vocals from English singer/songwriter Sam Smith. It was released on 17 May 2013 as the second single from Naughty Boy's debut album, Hotel Cabana (2013). The track reached #1 on the UK Charts (at its time of release it was the fastest selling single of 2013 in the UK) and the Italian Charts...

Music video
A music video to accompany the release of "La La La" was first released onto YouTube on 18 April 2013 at a total length of four minutes and five seconds.[1] The video is directed by Ian Pons Jewell and shot in 4 days[2] in La Paz, Salar de Uyuni and Potosí (Cerro Rico), Bolivia.

According to Ian Pons Jewell [3], the music video is based on "The Wizard of Oz", with the story adapted to an oral Bolivian legend, dating to the early 20th century, which concerns a deaf boy who fled from his abusive home and found a stray dog that accompanied him since then. After living on the streets for undefined amount of time he discovers that he has special talent of perceiving people's troubles, which he can heal by screaming, which is said to be as loud as an earthquake and a tornado. One day, he finds an old man who is being stoned by villagers while being taunted and ridiculed. By screaming, the boy resolves the situation and revives the old man's heart (in the video, by buying him a new heart). Together, they meet a disfigured man who was abused, considered a leper by society. The disfigured man reveals that he is a prophet who was cursed by a demon(El Tio) because he didn't worship him, and abandoned the society where the demon resided. El Tio is considered as the lord of the underworld, to whom mortal people offer gifts to him in order to be protected by him or to ease his anger.[4] The prophet said anybody who could hear the demon would fall under his control. He told them the demon could be found in desert, where there once was a town in which people worshipped the demon and he cursed them to kill themselves. Together they go to the place where the demon should reside. They arrive at a mine where the demon is supposed to be but everybody could be cursed who is able to hear the demonic curses, thus the boy alone only could go to the demon and overvoice him with his scream to stop him from cursing others.

The video ends with an open end, considering that El Tio is the lord of the underworld who rules in the mines, which were of use for people for a prolong period of time, whom miners sacrifice a llama from time to time to avoid from being cursed, the boy could be seen as a big sacrifice to redeem the miners from El Tio's undesirable influence.[5] On the other hand it can be interpreted that only the boy is able to stand up to El Tio as the people couldn't have freed themselves.

The music video deliberately alludes to the story of the Wizard of Oz in an effort to make the legend accessible to those unfamiliar with it.

The mask which the deformed man wears is one of the variants of "Kusillo" which is associated with a ritual dance and references also to the devil, the horns which are usually worn on the head represent demons which inhabit Manqha Pacha (underworld). Because the man isn't anymore associated with them, he has no horns on kusillo.[6]

Caps which the boy and the "shaman" with the dog are wearing are indigenous to Andean cultural origin. They are similar to the headware of Yatiri, who are traditional healer and also to the headware of Ekeko who is a fortune bearer. This implies that the boy has the ability to heal and to sense other people's problems. To become a Yatiri healer, one important factor is that a young Yatiri will begin a journey to find an elder Yatiri (ch'amakani), this is the reason why the boy meets a Yatiri at the beginning."  SOURCE: Wikipedia
Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!
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 A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Naughty Boy.

The reporting on the Chaguanas West by-election campaigning in T&T provides many opportunities to test my blocking skills. I don't actually say, "La la la la la la la na na na na na!" but I focus instead on the persistent beauty of our homeland and the achievements great and small of many of our people. It is clear though that Duttiness has ascended the throne with lies, innuendos, bacchanal and confusion as  its energetic handmaidens. Faced with this avalanche of caca, what can Decency do but block her children's ears and back away briskly?

Is there cause for alarm? Is this just rum and box drain politics as usual? Is it that things never really change, not anywhere?

Life does the only thing it can, it goes on, and I see that next year will definitely be coming because Tribe 2014 was launched. That tells the rest of us that God is in His heaven and all's right with the world. The sorely disappointed will just have to continue taking it in dey waist, kyaow or puefn.

"Hush, don't speak
When you spit your venom, keep it shut, I hate it
When you hiss and preach bout your new messiah
'Cause your theories catch fire.

I can't find your silver lining
I don't mean to judge
But when you read your speech, it's tiring
Enough is enough!

I'm covering my ears like a kid
When your words mean nothing, I go, "La la la!"
I'm turning up the volume when you speak
'Cause if my heart can't stop it,
I find a way to block it, I go...

La la la la la la la na na na na na..."

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare

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