Or En Aye Ay? What does this song mean?

April 11, 2009 10:40 PM

You may very well recognize this song. It is from this movie. What does it mean? Does the first stanza and/or chorus spell something? Please help!

One website lists the lyrics as this:


Oh Ry In Eye Ay - Oh Ry In Eye Ay
Oh Ry In Ah Key Ooh Lay
Ka Lay Ooh Lau Ee - Oh Ry In Eye Ay
Sal You Te Lee Ay Vee Show

Midnight sunshine silent thunder
Sky as black as day
Only a dream away

Chorus

Waking while you're still deep sleeping
Finding you're not here
Watching a dream appear

Tumbling through a thousand centuries
You don't know where you'll land
It's so dark in mythology
Treasures of history to be found
Near the legends of time
All the handiworks remain there
Only a dream away

Chorus

Greedy feeling wheeling dealing
Losing what you won
See the dream come undone

Stumble you may with the elementary
Lucky you got so far
All you owe is apologies
Measure the mystery and astound
Without taking up time
So the handiworks remain there
Only a dream away

Chorus

In out, hot cold, up down, young old
What a lot to do
Sharing a dream with you

Chorus

posted by crazyray to writing & language (9 comments total)

For those wanting to get straight into Googling, it's called "Dream Away" by George Harrison from the album "Gone Troppo."
posted by so_necessary at 11:33 PM on April 11

And the "this" link points to the IMDB page for Time Bandits.
posted by MCTDavid at 2:38 AM on April 12

I love this song. I always thought that odd part was something in French.
posted by tomboko at 4:58 AM on April 12

Not French, that much I know. Or Polish, just in case you were wondering.
posted by Helga-woo at 6:44 AM on April 12

It sounds pseudo-Hawaiian to me.
posted by jschu at 8:25 AM on April 12

It sounds vaguely like Pig Latin to me, but with no meaning that I can discern. I wouldn't be surprised if it was just made up sounds, to be honest.
posted by gemmy at 8:33 AM on April 12

This is just my own opinion, but I'm reminded of some of the choruses present in George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord."

I wouldn't be surprised if it had some connection with Hindu meditation just as "My Sweet Lord" did.
posted by WCityMike at 8:22 PM on April 12

This link says it's Scots.
posted by Houstonian at 8:29 AM on June 3

This one SongMeanings user arrived at:

Aren't I Lucky
Aren't I Lucky
Lucky I Am Hurray Oh
See me on the TV Show

which kinda supports the quasi-Pig Latin theory? I can hear the "Aren't I" in the "Oh Ry In Eye Ay," that's about it.
posted by cobwebberies at 2:49 PM on September 11