Nouvelle Vague "In A Manner Of Speaking"

From their 2004 album "Nouvelle Vague".

Nouvelle Vague is a French musical collective led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name is a play on words referring simultaneously to their "Frenchness" and "artiness" (the '60s new wave of cult French cinema), the source of their songs (all covers of punk rock, post-punk, and New Wave songs), and their use of '60s Bossa nova-style arrangements.

On their first album, Nouvelle Vague, the group resurrected classics from the New Wave music era, and reinterpreted them in a bossa nova style. The songs were stripped back to acoustic arrangements with lithe shaker rhythms achieved by gathering a parade of chanteuses from all over the world (six French, one Brazilian and one New Yorker) to cover bands including XTC, Modern English, The Clash, Joy Division and The Undertones. The various female singers on Nouvelle Vague only performed songs they had never heard before, to ensure that each cover would have a unique quality.

In a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That I could never forget the way
You told me everything
By saying nothing

In a manner of speaking
I don't understand
How love in silence becomes reprimand
But the way that i feel about you
Is beyond words

O give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
O give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything

In a manner of speaking
Semantics won't do
In this life that we live we live we only make do
And the way that we feel
Might have to be sacrified

So in a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That just like you I should find a way
To tell you everything
By saying nothing.

O give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
O give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Nouvelle
• Vague
• In A Manner Of Speaking
• Bossa
• Nova

[timeflies11]

lovely romantic dreamy.. carries me away to a lovely place...

[Lessbiasedthanyou]

Look up the word "silky" in the dictionary and you'll find this.

[missgabriella2323]

I can't believe it took me 7 years to discover this perfect piece of art :) it fills my soul with wonderful warmth :X:X::X:X

[neshastan]

Let's not forget that this song is originally written by Winston Tong, former singer of a cult and legendary artists Tuxedomoon, and it was firstly published on their vinyl "Holy Wars" in 1985.

I suggest you look for this version on youtube...stunning.

[ContraLaDerecha]

In a manner of speaking, I don't understand

how love in silence becomes reprimand

but the way that I feel about you... is beyond words.

[sherrytebbe1]

love this...

[helenacrsantos]

Bad sound quality.

[algersoleil]

J'adore !

Many thanks

[TheVoyagerina]

authentic.

[20038430]

i would want to keep this music to myself... this music is personal and intimate... should i want to share it with someone, that someone is beyond special!!! and when that special someone shares it with another that would be a slap on my face!!!

[tiana1017]

this song has great meaning to me, this song is so beautiful and brings me back to moments in my life when they were painful

[G3org3Master]

Awesome.