Can anyone decipher the lyrics to Villalobos' "Easy Lee"?

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my scan:

Easy Lee
it's time to run
get [unintelligible]
get [unintelligible]
get on the phone
get on the phone
time to run in the trees

I'm sure that isn't right, though.

philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I definitely heard "Time to run" as well.

djdee2005, Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

When I interviewed Ricardo for XLR8R last year, I'm pretty sure "Easy Lee" was the tune he referred to in the context of some magical afternoon when he and Luciano and Martin (Dandy Jack) were all hanging out in some pastoral place, so I think that "...through the trees" may be correct.

Oh, here we go: from the unpublished transcription:

"'Easy Lee' is the oldest song on the LP. The vocoder idea is 3 years old. It's a very nice story: we were at Martin’s mother’s place, in the garden, and we were really drunk, and I showed Luciano [my new] laptop, and we were completely drunk, and I showed him the Nord Lead vocoder, what you can do with it. Showing him this, I was playing around with the melodies, and it was completely spontaneous, and this became the melody of 'Easy Lee.' It was strange, it was the last moments being in this house, because the house was being sold, and everything changed after that -- it was a sad situation. So this is running through it, this atmosphere, this paradise atmosphere we had in this garden, and we were about to lose this paradise. It’s really, like, in between melancholic, a very sad thing, and a very happy thing."

philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought it said "unintelligible"! I hope we're right!

adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think there's anyone I'd rather be at the moment than Villalobos. And what a nice story.

adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

get on the phone
time to roam
easily

goddam morans

godsquad, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

isolée...

cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i hear the second line as "califone"

zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

califone - that's what i sing.

jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

the second line is quite clearly 'pierrot le fou'.

cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

ok maybe not, but is always how I sing it in my head. imagining jean-paul belmondo running somewhere.

cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Easy lee(Cassy Lee mix)" seems to be the untreated accapella. still can't understand what the third phrase is though. perhaps its "getting more fun"?

right on, Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

My attempt at deciphering these lyrics was entitled


Easily / Anally / Can of Foam


Easily / Anally / Can of Foam


Am sure "Time to roam", "Turnaround" and "Chemicals" also figure.

dh, Thursday, 12 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you feel what I feel
Fremme neppe
Beau mot plage

Alright, now back to not sleeping.

Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 12 August 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

easy lee
time to run
get a move on, get a move on, get a move on, get a move on
time to run... between

a, Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i read dh's thread back when it was first posted and those words have somehow just been the one's that stuck dammit.

although sometimes it does sound like califone rather than can of foam.

I have been under the impression for quite some time that the song was based on a porn film.

hector (hector), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...
easy lee

chemicals

ghetto funk
ghetto funk
ghetto funk

it's the crunk
in my trunk

easy lee
nigga please

chemicals

in my junk

easy lee
sherm and weed
and e
chemicals
ozs and keys
realest gs

mushy bees

chemicals

vahid (vahid), Thursday, 9 June 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

pierre-le-fou

cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

I always thought it was:

Easy Lee....Time to run....Killathon

(I assume a 'killathon' is a charity mass murder event)

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

Thanks vahid, now I need a new keyboard. realest gs... rofl.

mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

i remember being at a party (that i think philip sherburne was dj'ing the side room) and someone played easy lee, and my friend was pumping his fist singing along "eaasy leee, kill the poor, kill the poor, kill the poor, kill the poor, time to run in the streets." but i think those are not the correct lyrics.

phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

cameraphone??

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...
http://s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1ZSXL7P67DYM61W6LUV8MN8M1Z

F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

I liked the deciphering on this thread, too: LUOMO-TESSIO-THE MOST DEPRESSING SONG EVER?????

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 November 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I was all set to say OTM for the 'killathon' quote, til I realized it was me.

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Saturday, 19 November 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

the easy lee single has an acapella version, don't remember who it is but it's a woman's voice

anyhow, the lyrics are completely decipherable with that version

manuel (manuel), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...
Easy Lee
California
Woh-man
I got to ramble...

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 February 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Easy Lee
Louis Louis
Oh No
...etc.

cnwb (cnwb), Thursday, 23 February 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Oops. I mean Louie.
I is teh dumb.

cnwb (cnwb), Thursday, 23 February 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

easy lee
cameltoe
dangerous
cameltoe

s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 23 February 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

momussage
momussage
momussage
momussage

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 23 February 2006 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Easy lee.
Caliphone.
Taliban.
Body massage.

jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 23 February 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...
haha "dangerous cameltoe"

vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

(see noize funny thread)

vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...
Easy Lee
Can Aford...
Can Aford...

Close your eyes

Easy Lee

lol

papz, Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

'Es easy, Lee
Mic control
Take a walk
towards your soul

Turn around
to the soil


ROFL

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

easy lee

it's time to run

can u run?
can u fun?
can u fun?
can u fun?

time to run
in the street

easy lee
easy lee

can u fun?
can u run?

ehnoix, Friday, 21 April 2006 07:08 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...
my guess is:

easy lee
time to run
get on upon
get on upon
get on the fun
get on the fun
time to run in the trees
easy lee
easy lee
get on the fun
get on the fun
easy lee
time to run
get on upon
get on upon
get on the fun
get on the fun
time to run in between
easy lee
easy lee
get on the fun
get on the fun

Leb (gocci), Thursday, 9 November 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

i want to lead a group of people singing this through vocoders.

haitch, Friday, 20 July 2007 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

who's with me?? also we will be using vahid's lyrics.

haitch, Friday, 20 July 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

k

jergïns, Friday, 20 July 2007 06:56 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

haha nice interpretations ;)

actually the correct lyrics are (you can hear them on the "cassy lee mix" version of villalobos, easy lee, she's speaking without vocoder):

easy lee
time to run
getting more fun (x4)
time to run between
easy lee (easily?)
easy lee
getting more fun (x2)
...

cheeeeeeers, lauritz.

lauritzen, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 12:05 (sixteen years ago)

Nah, it's:

Easy Lee,
Easy Lee.
California!
Here we come!
We've been on the run
Driving in the sun
Looking out for #1
California here we come
Right back where we started from

Hustlers grab your guns
Your shadow weighs a ton
Driving down the 101
California here we come
Right back where we started from

Easy Lee

Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 12:09 (sixteen years ago)

muhahahaha ;)
actually it's a perfect interpretation, drunk villalobos is dreaming of hustlers in california while driving a big cadillac in the sun... hahah, i hope this discussion never ends!

lauritzen, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 12:14 (sixteen years ago)

otherwise you just watched too much OC California

lauritzen, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

best thread

jabba hands, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 13:48 (sixteen years ago)

where is haitch, will join in vocoder version

I had gained ten lewis (ledge), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 13:52 (sixteen years ago)

my favorite is:

Easy lee.
Caliphone.
Taliban.
Body massage.

sooo wicked :D

lauritzen, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 15:16 (sixteen years ago)

pretty sure it's

Easy Lee
Time to Run
Kill a pony
Kill a phone
Kill a phone
Kill a phone
Turn around
it's me!

Dwight Yorke, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 15:51 (sixteen years ago)

my personal less than hilarious interpretation

Easily
Time to run
Gamma fun
Gamma fun
Gamma fun
Gamma fun
Drive around
Mmmm key
Easily
Easy Lee

I had gained ten lewis (ledge), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 15:56 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

easy lee
tanqueray
californ
californ
californ
tied around
easy lee

i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 7 November 2010 02:51 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

ozs and keys
realest gs

re-greased bottom bracket (euphemism) (haitch), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 01:45 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

definitely hearing "Easy, Lee / turn around / kale or flan?" here

TITTWISORTH (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:59 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

ten years since alcachofa

Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:44 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/5QLwoYQ.jpg

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:51 (twelve years ago)

easy lee
churn a frond
smarm or fram
smarm a fram

Stevie D(eux), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:53 (twelve years ago)

ten months pass...

Easy Lee
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones
Tyrion

ledge, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:19 (eleven years ago)

"grammaphone"

marcos, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:28 (eleven years ago)

drive around
easily

marcos, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:29 (eleven years ago)

one of my favorite threads

marcos, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:29 (eleven years ago)

Easy Lee
Tamara
killer Floam
killer Floam
turn around a tree easily

DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 August 2014 20:07 (eleven years ago)

cat in the cooler
cat on the phone
cat on the phone

marcos, Friday, 1 August 2014 20:36 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

I just heard an untreated demo version somewhere on youtube and as pointed out earlier the real lyrics seem to only be a variation of "getting more fun", "time to run" and "easy lee".

Moka, Sunday, 7 September 2014 23:10 (eleven years ago)

Ah, memories.

Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 7 September 2014 23:36 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

this is in fact the best thread around

baea808, Thursday, 26 January 2017 19:12 (nine years ago)

easy lee
donald trump
president
president

Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 January 2017 21:15 (nine years ago)

I did hear "game of thrones" the last time I listened to this

Michael F Gill, Friday, 27 January 2017 02:04 (nine years ago)

He MUST be saying 'chemicals'. It's the only word I can clearly hear in the whole song.

Musical Rorschach test? Maybe I just have flashbacks from hearing 'Born Slippy' too many times.

viborg, Friday, 27 January 2017 06:20 (nine years ago)

"time to run" and "easy lee" are the ones that are heard clearly. The other is supposed to say "getting more fun" but I always hear Skeleton or Kill a Ton.

dance cum rituals (Moka), Friday, 27 January 2017 07:24 (nine years ago)

I don't hear 'chemicals' instead of 'time to run' at all.

dance cum rituals (Moka), Friday, 27 January 2017 07:26 (nine years ago)

There are very marked R and T sounds in the second and third line respectively which 'chemicals' does not have. At least I think they are but english is not my first language.

dance cum rituals (Moka), Friday, 27 January 2017 07:28 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

due to recent trends I keep hearing the lyrics as “CBD” now

mh, Sunday, 16 December 2018 02:45 (seven years ago)

I thought this revive would be, in some way, related to the new Bergsonist EP on Optimo Digital but since it's not then...

https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music/optimo-music-digital-danceforce-004-bergsonist-heat-ep?fbclid=IwAR30S041P9UFe6lyOdetnCOmQR5zU4U6_LsvlQwtS0Pz4SkujC-c8N6-fIg

brokenshire (jed_), Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:58 (seven years ago)

I love Heat.

brokenshire (jed_), Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:59 (seven years ago)

four months pass...

Easy Lee
Time to run
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 13 May 2019 15:38 (seven years ago)

amazing. he needs to do a 40 minute minimalist ep of the GoT theme

frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 13 May 2019 15:41 (seven years ago)

Easy Lee
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones
Tyrion

― ledge, Friday, August 1, 2014 5:19 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Pingularity (ledge), Monday, 13 May 2019 15:43 (seven years ago)

ah! kudos!

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 13 May 2019 16:03 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

Easy lee
Deborah
Kim had called
Kim had called
John’s around at 3

Easy lee

vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 October 2020 03:03 (five years ago)

i remember being at a party (that i think philip sherburne was dj'ing the side room) and someone played easy lee, and my friend was pumping his fist singing along "eaasy leee, kill the poor, kill the poor, kill the poor, kill the poor, time to run in the streets." but i think those are not the correct lyrics.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, June 9, 2005 7:57 AM (fifteen years ago)

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 9 October 2020 03:50 (five years ago)

"this atmosphere, this paradise atmosphere we had in this garden, and we were about to lose this paradise. It’s really, like, in between melancholic, a very sad thing, and a very happy thing."

what I've always heard is

Easy Lee
cal-i-fone
cal-i-fone
time to run
in between

Dan S, Friday, 9 October 2020 04:08 (five years ago)


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