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   I'd love to know who the other male voice is singing with Mika in this song but it doesn't look like they're credited anywhere, even the details on YouTube don't mention who it is. I just really love the mixture of the two voices! 

 

   I'm listening to it a few times on YouTube at the moment to try and get the lyrics. Once I work out what I think I'm hearing I'll share it here.

(unless someone beats me to it! 😅)

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14 minutes ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

 I'd love to know who the other male voice is singing with Mika in this song but it doesn't look like they're credited anywhere, even the details on YouTube don't mention who it is. I just really love the mixture of the two voices! 

 

Maybe it's someone from South Africa? 

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My go at the lyrics from what I can hear:

 

No Time to Leave lyrics:

 

Deep Mika voice:

 

There's no time left to leave
No time to leave behind 
There's no time left to leave 
No time to leave behind 

 

Mika:

 

When the world is spinning 
There's no road out there ??
You say you don't even care 
You say there's a mountain 
You say you climb over
And all of the world can laugh 
We can't even move so fast
They'll say that you're crazy 
You say we're together


Chorus: 

 

Don't let your worries rule ??
They're not for you to write ??
Only one thing's for sure
What's good is worth the fight 

 

Deep Mika voice: 

 

There's no time left to leave
No time to leave behind 
There's no time to leave 
No time to leave behind

 

Mika: 

 

When the world is spinning x 2 

à soleil, à soleil, à solely, à soleil, ah!
[French: In the sun] 

You're able to take you're time
But you see the finish line
No one can stop you
Oh claim your thunder ?? 

 

Chorus: 

 

Don't let your worries rule ??
They're not for you to write ??
Only one thing's for sure
What's good is worth the fight 

Deep male voice: 

There's no time left to leave
No time to leave behind 
There's no time to leave 
No time to leave behind 

 

Mika: 

 

When the world is spinning x 2

 

à soleil, à soleil, à soleil, à soleil, ah!
[French: In the sun] 

 

Deep Mika voice: 

 

There's no time left to leave
No time to leave behind 
There's no time to leave 
No time to leave behind 

 

When the world is spinning

 

à soleil, à soleil, à soleil, à soleil, ah!
[French: In the sun]
 

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6 hours ago, BeccaStardust said:

I'm actually going to be honest but I think I prefer no time to leave 

 

While feels like fire is the better song and I do enjoy it 

No time to leave is my style

 

I agree. Honestly, I like this song more than Feels like fire... :-)

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This song give fantastic vibes ! This mix of african, moroccan and "mika-ish" music is just so good ! It's impossible to listen to it without wanting to dance. 

I prefer it that the duo version of "feels like fire" too, (the orchestral version is unbeatable for me, though). 

 

How I love this soundtrack... :wub2:

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8 hours ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

à soleil, à soleil, à soleil, à soleil, ah!

"soleil" in French sounds different, I wonder if this is the word... or he changed the pronunciation to sound more exotic :original:

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19 minutes ago, krysady said:

"soleil" in French sounds different, I wonder if this is the word... or he changed the pronunciation to sound more exotic :original:

 

Yes, it doesn't sound like "soleil". I don't hear french at all, maybe it's some african/moroccan dialect ? 

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Just out of interest how do French people pronounce 'soleil' ? 

 

I've always thought the last L is silent, that's how I was taught it in French lessons. So it sounds like SOL-AYE, that's what I hear in the song.

 

With the movie being set in the desert it would make sense if Mika is saying "In the sun".

 

French is spoken in Morocco, so like you said it could just be a different dialect. 

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40 minutes ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

Just out of interest how do French people pronounce 'soleil' ? 

 

I've always thought the last L is silent, that's how I was taught it in French lessons. So it sounds like SOL-AYE, that's what I hear in the song.

It's not about the last L, it's about the O, in the song that's a different sound we can hear.

 

Edit:  To me that word sounds like "asaselei" , which means "desert" in yoruba, a language from West Africa. But it could be anything in some other dialect :dunno_grin:

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1 hour ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

Just out of interest how do French people pronounce 'soleil' ? 

 

I've always thought the last L is silent, that's how I was taught it in French lessons. So it sounds like SOL-AYE, that's what I hear in the song.

 

With the movie being set in the desert it would make sense if Mika is saying "In the sun".

 

French is spoken in Morocco, so like you said it could just be a different dialect. 

Eil is pronounced like ey. Like in the word hey but without h.

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47 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

Eil is pronounced like ey. Like in the word hey but without h.

 

That's exactly how 'aye' is pronounced in English 

 

1 hour ago, krysady said:

It's not about the last L, it's about the O, in the song that's a different sound we can hear.

Thanks for explaining, my French teachers were never good at explaining things like this, not one teacher was actually French either! 😅

(probably doesn't help either that I had more than one teacher at school, they all had different styles and dialects 🙃)

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49 minutes ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

Thanks for explaining, my French teachers were never good at explaining things like this, not one teacher was actually French either! 😅

(probably doesn't help either that I had more than one teacher at school, they all had different styles and dialects 🙃)

You're welcome! Oh, that must have been annoying, to change the teachers like that!  At least we have Mika to teach us, you can hear he knows how to pronounce "soleil" very well in his song "Un soleil mal luné" :naughty:  In French you can hear a very clear O, while in No Time To Leave it's a different sound... oh well, now we have another word to bother us, in addition to Brie :aah:

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2 hours ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

That's exactly how 'aye' is pronounced in English 

I know what you mean, but to me 'aye' is like I or eye. 

 

That might have been influenced by my geordie nana. Way-aye pet!

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1 hour ago, krysady said:

oh well, now we have another word to bother us, in addition to Brie :aah:

 

I was just thinking that this is like Keep it Simple all over again! 😅

 

We really need to pin Mika down and ask him what he's singing!

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7 hours ago, krysady said:

It's not about the last L, it's about the O, in the song that's a different sound we can hear.

 

Edit:  To me that word sounds like "asaselei" , which means "desert" in yoruba, a language from West Africa. But it could be anything in some other dialect :dunno_grin:

Wow, how did you know about "asaselei"?

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4 minutes ago, SusanT said:

Wow, how did you know about "asaselei"?

I was trying different words similar with what Mika is singing on Google Translate, and found a few versions of aṣálẹ, it seems there's some Berbers tribes using this yoruba language. But maybe we'll figure out better what's about when we'll see the movie.

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  • 4 weeks later...

:mikalove:i like this song, a looooooot, and have been listening to it a lot 

 

 

On 2/3/2023 at 8:47 AM, TinyLove_CJ said:

My go at the lyrics from what I can hear:

 

No Time to Leave lyrics:

 

Deep male voice:

 

There's no time left to leave
No time to leave behind 
There's no time left to leave 
No time to leave behind 

 

Mika:

 

When the world is spinning 
There's no road out there ??
You say you don't even care 
You say there's a mountain 
You say you climb over
And all of the world can laugh 
We can't even move so fast
They'll say that you're crazy 
You say we're together


Chorus: 

 

Don't let your worries rule ??
They're not for you to write ??
Only one thing's for sure
What's good is worth the fight 

 

Deep male voice: 

 

There's no time left to leave
No time to leave behind 
There's no time to leave 
No time to leave behind

 

Mika: 

 

When the world is spinning x 2 

à soleil, à soleil, à solely, à soleil, ah!
[French: In the sun] 

You're able to take you're time
But you see the finish line
No one can stop you
Oh claim your thunder ?? 

 

Chorus: 

 

Don't let your worries rule ??
They're not for you to write ??
Only one thing's for sure
What's good is worth the fight 

Deep male voice: 

There's no time left to leave
No time to leave behind 
There's no time to leave 
No time to leave behind 

 

Mika: 

 

When the world is spinning x 2

 

à soleil, à soleil, à soleil, à soleil, ah!
[French: In the sun] 

 

Deep male voice: 

 

There's no time left to leave
No time to leave behind 
There's no time to leave 
No time to leave behind 

 

When the world is spinning

 

à soleil, à soleil, à soleil, à soleil, ah!
[French: In the sun]
 

 

Thank you for transcribing!

Here's the changes I hear:

 

They say there's no road out there
You say you don't even care 
They say there's a mountain 
You say you climb over
...

The future, what it holds

is there for you to write

Only one thing's for sure

What's good is worth the fight 

...

They tell you to take your time
But you see the finish line
No one can stop you
Oh claiming your thunder 

 

 

 

No idea about the Yoruba/French bits

 

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