Need some help with lyrics

Burlybear45 wrote: Ok so the song Apparitions by Long Distance Calling is mainly instrumental. But at 8:30-8:46 in the song there is something uttered in there and I really cant tell what it is. Ive looked around a bit and pretty much every site just says instrumental for lyrics. If anyone knows what is said, please let me know.

I listened to the passage. The voice actually says "Atmet!" twice, the second time with a little pause between the two syllables ("Atmet! At-met!").

This is German for "Breathe!" (in the plural form; the singular form would be "Atme!"; the distinction between singular and plural gets lost in the English translation).

This makes sense because Long Distance Calling are a band from Münster, a German city.



Edited by BaldFriede - February 16 2018 at 05:26

Burlybear45 wrote: Thank you! Granted I don't hear that when I listen but Im also not fluent in German so what do I know.  I hear something completely different. Did you have a source or did you just figure it out from listening?

I think it is quite obvious for a native German speaker, and I happen to be one (actually I grew up bilingually with the other language being English). The "A" in "Atmet" is pronounced like the "u" in "us" (but long, not short), and the "e" is pronounced like the "e" in the English word "met" (the past tense of "meet"). The second similarity is not exact, but it is quite close.

Saying "Atmet" sounds very much like someone taking a deep breath; it is an onomatopoeion.

"Onomatopoeion" is the singular of "Onomatopoeia".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia