YEAR AND A DAY LYRICS CLARIFICATION
 

I'm getting my Beasties tattoo, and in honor of Yauch, it will be lyrics from 'A Year and a Day.' However, I need to know, are the lyrics:

"or for a week or for a year or for a year IN a day"

OR

"or for a week or for a year or for a year AND a day"

They seem to have very different meanings, to me anyway.

Anybody know FOR SURE? Many different sources cite different things.

HELP!

thanks

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Paul's Boutique has the lyrics printed on the inside cover.

But I think it's this.

Or for a week, or for a year, or for a year in a day
Come what may...

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i don't think Year and a Day is in cd lyrics booklet...it came seperately with the CYH mail-in lyrics...and i think it's AND....

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According to Beastiemania it's 'AND'

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I think its safe to assume it's "year AND a day" especially since that's the title of the song.

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it's definitely AND

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Why would A Year and a Day lyrics come with CYH mail-in lyrics? I'm honestly asking. I never heard of this.

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Oh and I think its AND to. Mine was a typo

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Cuz all the PB lyric sheet had was "He goes by the name of Disco Dave" and you could finally get all the AYAAD lyrics mailed to you in 1992. I opted in, it was a photocopied sheet in the style of the PB lyric sheet, IIRC.

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Also keep in mind that there are lots of places in the lyrics sheets where the lyrics don't necessarily match up with what's actually said on the album. I still think this is "a year AND a day" though.

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The plot thickens (from the Check your Head Lyrics sheet)
http://www.beastiemania.com/merch/zo...23&height=1275

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Well. I'll be.

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Bear I clept it.

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I'm down with Jalil Donkey and Ecstasy

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That girl ain't nothing but the blue plate crab special at Woodman's in Essex, MA.

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did the band ever release official lyrics for Ill Communication?

does anyone remember the board/website around 2000, when the Sounds of Science was released?

I seem to remember lyrics were here on the site, even color coded by band member.

the lyric on websites out there that bothers/confuses me is on Root Down- "If Dancin' Prays to the lord then I will feel alright."

that makes no sense whatsoever.

the line is a direct reference to Bob Marley, who sang "Give Thanks and Praise to the Lord and I will feel alright"

also, the lyric about Anthony Mason- "listen all y'all you get the ball bath"

the fuck is that? I thought it was "get the ball back"
I wish MCA were around to clear that up :(

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The lyrics are printed in the sleeve of the CD

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I think a ball bath is probably exactly what it sounds like.

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(y) thanks, I've been living too long in the digital world. And both of my questions above are confirmed by this? I don't know what probably exactly sounds like, but as mentioned sometimes they're printed differently .

Thoughts on the Root Down Bob Marley lyrical question?

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I just checked the LP lyrics and it also says "If Dancin' Prays to the Lord then I will feel alright" but there's no way he says that. I agree with you about "Give Thanks and Praise to the Lord and I will feel alright." It's weird when officially published lyrics get that stuff wrong.

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I always thought they liked fuckin' around with the lyrics. It is a great cover for an artist when they cannot remember them.

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Read the Paul's Boutique lyric sheet, there's all types of stuff in there that doesn't match what they say on the wax.

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I've only ever heard "if dancing prays to The Lord then I will feel alright". Just figured it was intentionally a play on the reference done polysyllabically.

Give thanks and praise to The Lord might have been too preachy? Maybe the same reason he never did the ask god for a rhyme or two verse off Alright Hear This after 95.

A lot of people assume he says fingers running down my bass because I love to do it. Make sense assumptively, and people are going to hear what they're going to hear, I guess.

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The line makes sense to me if you read like so:

'If Dancing is a Prayer to the Lord, Then I will be Alright Because I Dance A Lot'

If this is the correct interpretation, then the lyric is an indirect reference to Bob Marley's lyric combined with a Buddhist philosophy on the function of dance. See below:

http://www.koreandance.net/buddhist_dance.html

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The "get the ball bath" part is about golf. The ball bath to clean the golf balls. They talked about golf in a couple spots on that song.

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Hahaha! Sorry bluhd.

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played Year and a Day for the family last night at dinner.

I know its hard for you to believe, but the amount of miss-heard lyrics and what I thought was being said vs the lyric sheet is full on embarrassing. Luckily your not 100% tapped into my head and dont know how far off I was on more than one line.

Anyway, great song. The kids always like it, but they go to the next level for Hello Brooklyn when it goes off.

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(y)