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Imogen Heap — Xizi She Knows
Album: Xizi She Knows
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Released: 2012
Length: 4:41
Plays (last 30 days): 0
We come to your shores over misty millennia
From hustlers to emperors
For power and pleasure
We carve through the cars
Dance around the Daily News
Cue in the Grande ballabile
Even your ten-ton tone rings home for Marco Polo

Slow down
From a thread of sky
Slow down
To the warp and weft your being
Slow down
You're beautiful, graceful, like no other
Pretty damned good as you are

Slow down
Friend of mine
Slow down
In a terrible hurry for change
Slow down
As you unravel your marvels
From evergreen gardens
Remember we loved you this way

To treasure it all, scroll out to see
In gold, fire, wood, clay and water
Your structure and flow, adagio to allegro
With leaves to the tide
In full moon, plum blossom, we salute to you

Slow down
From a thread of sky
Slow down
To the warp and weft of your being
Slow down
Dynamic and playful, you opened my eyes yeah
You're pretty damned good as you are

Slow down
Friend of mine
Slow down
Could you go for progression not pace
Slow down
As you unravel your marvels
Don't lose them all on the way

Mantoshan

Slow down
From a thread of sky
Slow down
To the warp and weft of your being
Slow down
You're beautiful, graceful, like no other
Pretty damned good as you are

Slow down
Friend of mine
Slow down
You're in a terrible hurry to change
Slow down
Unravel your marvels, from evergreen gardens
Remember we loved you this way

Whoa, to the warp and weft of your being
You're beautiful, graceful, like no other
P-p-pretty damned good as you are

Xizi she knows that once it's gone, then it's gone
Xizi she knows that once it's gone, then it's gone
Xizi she knows that once it's gone
Then it's gone.
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 lily34 wrote:
she's just awful.
 

Not a great song, but she's the furthest thing from awful.
Not one of her stronger tracks, for sure.  I'll still see her in concert anytime though.
she's just awful.
 carolinetapley wrote:

But I do have to say its totally different than any of her other stuff
 
I don't think it really is.  It's a bit different, but certainly not totally different.  I do really like it, as I like much/most of Heap's efforts.

Not a criticism, just an observation.

 carolinetapley wrote:
I love this song! It definitely grew on me after a few listens
 
But I do have to say its totally different than any of her other stuff
I love this song! It definitely grew on me after a few listens
Make it stop!! {#Frustrated}
Imogean! Way to go! Sure, it's signature Imogean, but with cool twists from China! Love it!
 SinisterDexter wrote:
Xizi She Knows? Remids me of the Tamarian language on Star Trek:

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"
"Shaka, when the walls fell."
 
Gilgamesh,,,,,,a bull.....
no one at my desk really likes this song......
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 OUT>
I like it when she's counting
I like Imogen Heap, but this song just makes me cringe. 
Hmm. On the fence with this one. Teetering.
Did not enjoy that at all
Never has a track sucko'd so much barfo!  Thank you PSD.
this is nearly as confusing as modern dubstep is Undecided
It's a heap alright!!!
<yawn> Not at all up to her other stuff.
 ncollingridge wrote:
Sounds just like every other Imogen Heap song to me. Not a good thing.

 
I like how there was a deep breath in there somewhere....  WTF


It's good!


Sounds just like every other Imogen Heap song to me. Not a good thing.
 ansugon wrote:
I have a M.A. in Chinese studies, so I'll give her 5 just for trying.
 
Pretentious much?
The Video is nice:
Xizi Sje Knows (Official Video)



I have a M.A. in Chinese studies, so I'll give her 5 just for trying.
 SinisterDexter wrote:
Xizi She Knows? Remids me of the Tamarian language on Star Trek:

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"
"Shaka, when the walls fell."
 
{#Cool} "Timba, his arms wide." I love that episode.


Xizi She Knows? Remids me of the Tamarian language on Star Trek:

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"
"Shaka, when the walls fell."
 netskink wrote:
thought it sounded like she was counting at start. Need to listen agian.
 
She's counting in Chinese: yi err san si wu liu qi ba (12345678)
What's with the Rocky Balboa cover art?
nice!
...cool enough for me...
It is a confusing mixture of sounds and sensations the first time you hear it.  I suspect it can grow on you as you hear it a second and third time.  No mistaking that this is Imogen experimenting in a new direction.
I usually like Imogen Heap's work, and kudos to her for being experimental, but it's in the nature of experiments that some fail and this is a turkey, IMO :(
thought it sounded like she was counting at start. Need to listen agian.
Very interesting, as usual from Imogen