(Another) Sign Language / Sung Music video that's wormed its way into my head

[capri0mni]

(and the problem with songs that are written in both Signed and Spoken Languages, is they get in through earworms and eyeworms... and they're doubly hard to shake... help me!)

This one's for trouble... I think she'll understand why this seemed to me to be zeitgeistly connected to what's going on with her, lately:

I KNOW YOU HATE IT DON'T CHA? YOU SEE ME SUCCEED
YOU'D RATHER SEE ME BLEED, BUT I'M REAL, I'M 3D
WE BREATHING THE SAME AIR.BUT YOU ACT LIKE I'M NOT HERE
FINGERS TIED,WHEN I SEE YOU SOLEMNLY SWEAR.

I'M KNOCKING ON YOUR FRONT DOOR, DEMANDING YOU TO COME OUT
YOU NEED TO GET ON MY LEVEL TO KNOW WHAT I'M ABOUT.

CAUSE WE FALLING,
HITTING ROCK BOTTOM.
GOTTA STEP UP
NOW TELL ME WASSUP

Chorus:
EVEN IF THE WORLD COMES CRASHING DOWN
AND EVEN IF MY LUCK WOULD TURN AROUND
I STAND TALL, PROUD BACK AGAINST THE WALL
AND EVEN IF THE HANDS OF TIME WOULD FREEZE
YOU WONT SEE ME BEGGING DOWN ON MY KNEES
I STAND TALL, PROUD BACK AGAINST THE WALL

2nd
NOT ASKING FOR NO FAVOURS DON'T WANT YOUR FRIENDLY DEEDS
DON'T WANT YOU TO BE MY SAVIOUR, I BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS
NOTHING CHANGES WITHOUT THE FIRST STEP
STAY STILL, BUT NOT TO ADVANCE IS TO REGRESS

I'M KNOCKING ON YOUR FRONT DOOR, DEMANDING YOU TO COME OUT
YOU NEED TO GET ON MY LEVEL TO KNOW WHAT I'M 'BOUT

CAUSE WE FALLING,
HITTING ROCK BOTTOM.
GOTTA STEP UP
TELL ME WASSUP

Chorus:
EVEN IF THE WORLD COMES CRASHING DOWN
AND EVEN IF MY LUCK WOULD TURN AROUND
I STAND TALL, PROUD BACK AGAINST THE WALL
AND EVEN IF THE HANDS OF TIME WOULD FREEZE
YOU WONT SEE ME BEGGING DOWN ON MY KNEES
I STAND TALL, PROUD BACK AGAINST THE WALL

C-part:
WITHOUT A FIGHT, YOU WONT SEE ME GO DOWN
AND WITHOUT A FIGHT YOU WONT SEE ME FALL DOWN
SINCE I'M DOING THIS FOR MY PEOPLE
FOR ALL MY PEOPLE ALL MY PEOPLE.
WITHOUT A FIGHT, YOU WONT SEE ME GO DOWN
AND WITHOUT A FIGHT YOU WONT SEE ME FALL DOWN
SINCE I'M DOING THIS FOR MY PEOPLE
FOR ALL MY PEOPLE ALL MY PEOPLE.

Chorus:
EVEN IF THE WORLD COMES CRASHING DOWN
AND EVEN IF MY LUCK WOULD TURN AROUND
I STAND TALL, PROUD BACK AGAINST THE WALL
AND EVEN IF THE HANDS OF TIME WOULD FREEZE
YOU WONT SEE ME BEGGING DOWN ON MY KNEES
I STAND TALL, PROUD BACK AGAINST THE WALL

Signmark (Wikipedia article, so expect a good dose of nonsense/irrelevance) is a Finnish rap/hip-hop group, and the lead artist, Marko Vuoriheimo, is a native Signer of Finnish Sign Language. However, I recognize most of the signs in this song as ASL (American Sign Language), which is fair, I suppose since its lyrics are sung in American.

But these are signs I don't (quite) recognize:

"SINCE I'm doing this for my people..." -- SINCE (because), here, has the position, movement and palm orientation as the sign that I learned, but a different hand shape.

and:

"You WON'T see me fall down..." -- WON'T has the same hand shape, and palm orientation as the sign I learned, but a different movement and different position.

Finnish Sign Language is (according to linguists) part of the British Sign Language family. So maybe that's where the change comes from? Or maybe this is just the natural evolution of changes in the way languages are "pronounced" (I mean, to be fair, the last time I studied this stuff was 20+ years ago, and that's plenty of time for phoneme shifts)? Or maybe this a sign that's used in "Street lingo," or something, that doesn't get recorded for dictionaries and classrooms?

All of the above?

Sign: I know just enough to know half of what I don't know... :-P

Comments

[trouble]

I love everything about this video.

[capri0mni]

\o/ I was hoping it would be cheering...