Comments on: Or En Aye Ay? What does this song mean?

Question: Or En Aye Ay? What does this song mean?

crazyray — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:40:01 -0800

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

By: so_necessary

so_necessary — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:33:17 -0800

For those wanting to get straight into Googling, it's called "Dream Away" by George Harrison from the album "Gone Troppo."

By: MCTDavid

MCTDavid — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:38:55 -0800

And the "this" link points to the IMDB page for Time Bandits.

By: tomboko

tomboko — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:58:01 -0800

I love this song. I always thought that odd part was something in French.

By: Helga-woo

Helga-woo — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:44:01 -0800

Not French, that much I know. Or Polish, just in case you were wondering.

By: jschu

jschu — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:25:01 -0800

It sounds pseudo-Hawaiian to me.

By: gemmy

gemmy — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:33:08 -0800

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.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:22:39 -0800

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.

By: Houstonian

Houstonian — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:29:46 -0800

This link says it's Scots.

By: cobwebberies

cobwebberies — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:49:21 -0800

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.