Stevie's Lyrics Clarification For "I Can't Wait"

jrpjr · #1 01-07-2009, 08:40 PM

What is Stevie saying (spoken not sung) during the instrumental part of this song just before her trademark howel? It is right after she sings "If I'm wasting my time....make up your mind ...well..." It sound a little "Exorcist" but i know she is saying something that has some type of significance. Appreciate any opinion on this and I fully accept there may not even be an answer to this. I tried palying it backwards...I think she might be saying " Don't buy Pat Benatar records." LOL!!

petep9000 · #2 01-07-2009, 09:03 PM

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jannieC · #3 01-07-2009, 09:52 PM

I never knew this.

If I told you what I've been singing for the last twenty years, you would think I was deranged.

jrpjr · #4 01-07-2009, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by petep9000

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thanks so much...doen't make any sense but i appreciate it. Ivistited your blog...love it. i will revisi when i can spend some time..thanks again buddy!!

jrpjr · #5 01-07-2009, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

I never knew this.

If I told you what I've been singing for the last twenty years, you would think I was deranged.

Let's hear it ....come on confess...what were you singing ???? I was singing : "hollerin, hollerin...how bout a generation." truth be told LOL!!! I had a real bitch of an english teacher in high school (1980) named Mrs. Holleran...i dedicated that part of the song to her...please say what u wre singing...it's all good...it's all Stevie lyrics "mashups"

jrpjr · #6 01-07-2009, 10:13 PM

I am proof reading AFTER i post. I am making alot of spelling boo boo's. I am typing fast and i have keys that stick..I am not a dumb dumb....i will slow down. THANKS ALL.

John

skuncles · #7 01-07-2009, 10:56 PM

It's funny because when Rock A Little came out I was thinking "How WILL we feel twenty years from now?" It's seems so weird now because 20 years from now was 3 years ago!!!!

LukeA · #8 01-07-2009, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

I never knew this.

If I told you what I've been singing for the last twenty years, you would think I was deranged.

powertelevision?

petep9000 · #9 01-07-2009, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

I never knew this.

If I told you what I've been singing for the last twenty years, you would think I was deranged.

I do that all the time! Sometimes I like my mis-heard lyrics even better!
Actually, I listened to the song for so many months before I bought the RAL album (I had taped the video from MTV) and it wasn't until I read the lyrics that I found out what she was really saying. I thought it was just some sort of weird dream-like thing and not actually words (though, I could faintly hear the "yearsh from now" part.
Oh, and that's not a typo. The way I hear it clearly, she says "yearsh" and not "years".

And how odd is that little gremlin-type voice?

Moz · #10 01-07-2009, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by petep9000

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It always sounded like "how will we feel ten years from now" to me.

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StreetAngel86 · #11 01-08-2009, 12:22 AM

are you for serious?
it's twenty years?

i swear it was 10...
isnt it the same thru the whole song?

ricohv · #12 01-08-2009, 03:18 AM

I can't remember if it's on the album lyrics or where I have seen it, but I know I have seen it printed as alternating:
How will we feel twenty years from now
How will we feel ten years from now (or vice-versa).
Ricoh

Sahara · #13 01-08-2009, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by skuncles

It's funny because when Rock A Little came out I was thinking "How WILL we feel twenty years from now?" It's seems so weird now because 20 years from now was 3 years ago!!!!

There was a thread asking that question 3 years ago ... I can't find it now, though, maybe someone remembers it?

cactusjack · #14 01-08-2009, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by jrpjr

Let's hear it ....come on confess...what were you singing ???? I was singing : "hollerin, hollerin...how bout a generation." truth be told LOL!!! I had a real bitch of an english teacher in high school (1980) named Mrs. Holleran...i dedicated that part of the song to her...please say what u wre singing...it's all good...it's all Stevie lyrics "mashups"

yeah, I used to think it was something about "how we gonna live with the new generation? "

marinnette · #15 01-08-2009, 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by petep9000

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NO WAY!! I must be deaf or something. there's no way I can hear she saying that.
for me it's always been stevie singing: I'm gonna love you! that's all I hear, and then the back up singers saying : calling for salvation.

I'm shocked!