Devin Townsend - Let It Roll

[mkklmann]

Roll, Lassie, roll!

[o0ZporK0o]

Like the picture you picked for the song, it's fitting.

[HardtimesRoadEnt]

I love this song.

[JimHisself]

This is so full of awesome

[blueswh0re]

I wish people would get their shit straight. If you're actually a big Devin fan, you'd realize that those lyrics are wrong. Its obvious as fuck. Try listening to the song before you post the lyrics. FAIL.

[DarkAnxiety]

@blueswh0re I'll own up and admit that when i posted this vid i was really lazy and just copied the lyrics from a site rather than sitting down and writing them out myself, which was definitely a mistake as you are right they are wrong. Strange how all of the lyric sites out there have these incorrect lyrics and nobody's bothered to correct them.

Anyway i will correct this as soon as i have the free time. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

[DarkAnxiety]

@blueswh0re Fixed it, finally.

[AdAbsurdum23]

People seem to be so afraid of stealing and plagiarism nowadays. It's seems as though people have forgotten the meaning of words such as appropriation, influence, appreciation, acknowledgment or respect.

[GURAKASCA]

what a nice tune....

[dfhellraiser4td]

glorious

[wetaconce]

i was born not to follow... great line!

[pedrokuoshu]

Great song! i wonder what "lassy" means.. it comes from northern lassy?

[mutteddy]

Listen to the folk song Wild Mountain Thyme for the context of the "let it roll" line.

[DarkAnxiety]

@mutteddy How do you know it's the same context man?

[mutteddy]

@DarkAnxiety Not saying he stole anything, just that the last line of the chorus quotes a folk song. Listen for the lyric, harmonic, and melodic similarity between the endings of both choruses.

Wild Mountain Thyme:

Lyrics: Will ye go, lass-ie, go?

Melod: Do la sol la - do do (solfege)

Harm: I -------------IV------- I

Let it Roll:

Lyric: Let it Roll, lass - ie, roll

Melod: Do la sol la - do do (solfege)

Harm: I -------------IV------- I

[tokyosan1]

@DarkAnxiety mutteddy is right, Wild Mounatin Thyme has "Will ye go, Lassie go" and Devin cited it, changing it into "let it roll, Lassy roll" ;)

[IRTKaiser]

Amazing song. Can you please enable embedding?

[DarkAnxiety]

@IRTKaiser There you go.

[IRTKaiser]

Thanks!

[Nomonuies]

Townsend is a genius.

[DarkAnxiety]

Yes, yes he is. = )

[zuleimargb]

I just don't know how to explain how Devin's music makes me feel. I just started listening to him like 4 months ago and he is the only person I will listen to. This is real music.

[Gharper23]

This song is amazing. I have all his cds. So good

[ViperRob42]

Brilliance, Townsend owns all, just magnificent genius

[pardar2x]

Excellent, thank you so much for sharing.

[DarkAnxiety]

You're right, the guy is a musicial, lyrical and emotional genius. And it's not just twists and turns between his different songs or styles he does it even within them.

And then you've got Ziltoid the Omniscient.

[TheRealFatassFilms]

It's not even just that this is so well written, but also the fact that he can go from this to something like "Wrong Side" or "Fucker" is amazing.

[DarkAnxiety]

That's so true man.

[BlackheartxChibihell]

This song is just too good. Devin Townsend if one of the greatest for sure.