Mraz, Jason - 5/6 Lyrics

Just FYI. I'm pretty sure the lyric is "Be Love" not "be loved" I mean he has a tattoo that literally says "be love" and I've also heard it played in concert and it definitely sounds like "be love"

Heard this live last night at the CYO concert at Severance Hall. It truly is an amazing song.

I was almost in tears because it's my favorite song! Such a perfect rendition at the concert 💗

Hice una traducción de esta canción. Chécala aquí, por favor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBJLqY4uPf8

Hice una traducción de esta maravillosa canción. Podría decir que es uno de los mejores álbumes de él según mi perspectiva pero en este tiempo que he estado revisando toda su discografía para hacer mis traducciones me he dado cuenta que ningún trabajo artístico es flojo.

Checa mi trabajo y comenta tu apreciación: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBJLqY4uPf8

Or is *every day* a jolly holiday

4:10
That moo-ood.

it's a shame songs such as 5/6 aren't more famous

Love it.  Close my eyes and feel the groovy way that your soul put in this song.  ....You made my day.

The reason it is called 5/6 is definitely the time signature. The point is that in the verse he switches between 5/8 and 6/8 and 9/8 so the timing catches you and you cannot DANCE to it. Then in the chorus "give it all away" he then switches to the 6/6 timing that you can dance away to without feeling tripped up. It is extremely clever interplay between tune and lyric. The guy is a great musician.

Damn you 4 real?

This is one of my favorite songs that i can absolutely do my best dance to ... here goes again 💃 💃💃💃💃💃💃 ‼️ 💘Thank you Jason Maraz

This was the song that got me into Jason Mraz properly (along with The Freedom Song and, later, Make It Mine). I'd only really heard I'm Yours and I Won't Give Up before my wife bought this album for us, and was convinced he was just a twee, safe Christian-With-A-Guitar who only wrote cringeworthy well-intentioned fluff. Some of his work approaches that description, but as I've listened to this album and We Sing etc, I've come to really love and respect the guy's musical ability. Yes! was disappointing, though...

Everyone saying 5/6 is the time signature: I like to remind everone politely there isn't a 6th note :) The time signature here is a 13/4 but I think why the song is called 5/6 is because: He plays 5/4 + 6/4 -> 5 6 -> 5/6 you feel me

what do u think verse is though?

oh i deleted that comment i realized you caught yourself ;) but now the confusion is this verse. doesnt seem to fall in the 5+6 feel. ppl below say its 9 count. then they say its 5, 6, and 9. to that i say huh? ha when do u count when?

+Corey Walvatne Verse is 6/8 :)

Tried that didnt work :( only seems to have a straight 6 feel in chorus

@Corey Walvatne yeah, a 6th feel is correct. 6/8 or 3/4. Just your regular 6/8 feel

I fall in love every time.

So many people are just re-posting the misheard lyrics to this song... Some are really close, put on some headphones and crank it loud. LISTEN to it and HEAR the words! This is a bit more accurate, but probably still not perfect (Changes in CAPS)-
"Are you dancing with your partner, or are you pushing them around?
Are you begging for attention, or do you love the one YOU found?
Are you giving up your Saturdays to waltz all over town?
Or is every day a jolly holiday with whomever you're with now?

You could give it all away, give it all and be unstoppable
ALL THE WAY, everything is really possible, ALL THE WAY
You never really own it anyway, It’ll all fall in place if you just let go

Don’t dress up your children like dolls from your past
Or They’ll run from you madly, they'll never look back
And when they grow older, they’ll do just the same
The world’s a reflection of how children play

Well You could give it all away, give it all and be unstoppable
ALL THE WAY, gonna make empty meaningful, ALL THE WAY
You never really own it anyway, It’ll all fall in place if you just let go

When you’re in the mood, baby
Hear just what your heart has to say
When the world is turning topside and turvy then you better hurry down
To the bottom of your soul and be LOVE

Your word is your access, your mouth is your door
Let’s slide down inside there, and see what's in store
In the middle there’s a rhythm picking, it's a freaking HEART beat
At the bottom there’s a lot of water keeping your soul deep

You could give it all away, give it all and be unstoppable
ALL THE WAY, everything is really possible, ALL THE WAY
You never really own it anyway, It’ll all fall in place if you just let go

When you’re in the mood, baby
Hear just what your heart has to say
When the world is turning topside and turvy then you better hurry down
To the bottom of your soul
Get down, GIVE IT ALL, and be LOVE"

+Absurd Improbability 
The only ones I disagree with you on are:
"ALL AWAY" repeated in the chorus.
"you never really OWNED it anyway"
"When you're in the mood BABE"
I agree with you otherwise!!

Mr A-Z does it again.  Such a great song.

Why 5/6 ?

It's called 5/6 because that's the time signature that comes up throughout the song. (mostly a mix of 5/6 and 6/6, if I recall)

I know this is gonna confuse the hell out of you, but this song is about the relationship between 5 and 6, pentagram and davids star, like the football ball(the pentagram has 5 sides and the star of david 6 sides) http://www.allbettingpredictions.com/gallery/what-bookmaker-to-choose-when-betting-on-football/what-bookmaker-to-choose-when-betting-on-footbal.jpg

@Flavius Frantz well.. thank you! I understand , when I saw de football ball..
Ual, obrigado! Eu entendi, quando eu vi a bola de futebol

@Flavius Frantz 5 stars the pentagram represents what we can do , 6 stars the star of David represents the right choice we should take :) i mean dancing with our partners and not pushing them around..:)


5/6 represents the choice we do everytime, between bad and good...

The pentagram being the devil's symbol is a pretty recent concoction, used to vilify paganism. Having read all of Jason's blogs up till about 2012 I don't see him thinking the pentagram represents "bad" in any way. In fact I would imagine he would see the pentagram as being the female symbol; venus draws a 5-pointed in the night sky (with relation to the Earth) over the course of its orbit.

Take Five

+Keith Brisbane YES. however that's a 5/4, this one a 11/4 ;)

Casper van Helvoirt nah fam, it's in 6/8, 5/8 and 9/8

You can try counting it. If you get it the first time, you'll get more chills with this song. Jason Mraz is a fucking genius. He is, by far, one of the most creative artists living today. :)

Beck!!!

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intro is 5/8 then 6/8 [12345 123456] or 11/8
verse is 9/8, then 5/8 and 6/8. the last part of each verse is 9/8 and 6/8 [one count of 9, then two counts of 6]
chorus is 6/8

I’m playing 5/6 with my orchestra (and Jason Mraz), and we read the chorus as a 6/8, 3/8, 5/8, 6/8 (probably for consistency)

Chords?

Verse is 5/6 6/8 9/8... but in the end of each verse it is 6/8 6/8 9/8 so we can enter the chours where it is 6/8 and same in the C piece.

Well 6/8 an 9/8 aswell :D

great!!

Better live

Verse: 5/8 - 6/8 - 9/8
Chorus : 6/8

thats's pretty much what i've got :)

One word... Amazing!!!....

05 6_5

I love everything about this one!

wonderful *---*

Hey bro! Appreciate the lyrics, but I got a revision for you, "Or is everything a jolly holiday with a merry y'all with now", the "merry y'all with now" should be "whomever you're with now" :)

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The time signature is not 5/6. It alternates between 5/8 and 6/8 (at least that's what it is in the intro.)

The time signature of the song is 5/6. So, its title is the time it's in.

Tha would be becuase of the way the song is written: The beats are grouped every 5, then 6, then 5, then 6, on and on

he said somewhere that they had the riff and kept trying to write songs for. Were gonna only try a couple more times and it worked on the fith time he wrote it :O was gonna give up after 6

because its time signature is 5/4 6/4. if you count the beats, you'll hear One two three four five, One two three four five six.

because of the measures... it's a 5 followed by a 6 :)

theres a measure of 5 followed by a measure of 6 consequently

its in 5/6 time

Time signatures.

It is how the song is counted. The intro lead in fill is 2 beats but once the beat kicks in you count 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6. The first 5 lands right on the key board hit. After you count the 1 2 3 4 5 6 you start back at the beginning of the counting which would be the grouping of 5.

Gosh people these days only know about 4/4?

this is a amazin' fuckin'song!!!! <3

count the beat from the intro (1,2,3,4,5) then repeat it by adding 6 (1,2,3,4,5,6)

5/6 is the name cuz of its time signature for all of you who dont know

It's a bar of five beats followed by a bar of six beats, later becoming straight 6 in the chorus. Clever.

the song is called 5/6 because most of the song was a lick that his friend wrote and he wanted to put it to lyrics. the lick was called 5/6

because it's the tempo

the time signatures are in 5 and 6

It's the time signature of the track, It does a bar of 5/8 then a bar of 6/8 in the intro

It's to do with the time signature

yes you do. but some guys would like you to think otherwise.

It switches time signatures from 5/8 to 6/8, 5/8 to 6/8 in the intro and throughout the song

It's the rhythm of the song D: is not so difficult to understand!

because the song is in a rotating time signature of 5/8 to 6/8, back to 5/8 etc.

5:33 - 5:45. For some reason I am in love with that part. It's something about his voice and how he changes it around so smoothly. Love it!

It's called 5/6 because of the meter signature of the song. If you listen carefully and count 5 then 6 on the intro, you'll know. (If there's any other meaning to the title, please do tell me.)

P.S. (correct me if I'm wrong) the verse's meter sig is kinda like 6-3-5-6 (last line of verse is 6-3-6-6) and the chorus and bridge are just 3 or 6

cheers! :)

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It's the time signature of the song.

It called 5/6 because the song was compose in 5/6 time signature.

5/6 time signature indicate that in the first bar it has 5 beat following by 6 beat in the next bar which is an "Irrational Time Signature" while normally song compose with 4/4,6/8 and 3/4

Best song of this album!

Because that's my birthday...)))lol

is the time signature 5/6?

because the compass is 1 2 3 4 5 and then 1 2 3 4 5 6 sometimes it became 7 and 5 ;o)

It's the Time Signature.. It's a count of 5 followed by a count of 6..

Jason Mraz? Only good music *_*

such a jazzy-soulful song with the smoothest rhythm. the kind of song i expect to see in a dim lighted cafe. nice song Jason, nice song.

This is just a guess but I assume its because the song's time meter is in 5/6. Not 4/4 like traditional pop and rock.

Because of the time measure.

cool guitar riffz

That's because during the verses, it goes from 6/8 to 3/8 to 5/8 to 6/8. It does that three times in a row, then the last time the 5/8 is replaced with 6/8. The choruses are all 6/8. And @diemuffinmann it's more common practice to right it out in the smaller chunks like that. I sat down and spent some time writing out things about the song, it's actually surprisingly complicated, with odd 11 bar phrases and such for some of the choruses.

It's because of the time signature which switches back and forth between being in 5/8 and 6/8 every other measure. Even knowing that though, I still find it difficult to count along during the verses.

It is the time signature that this song is written in.

the beat maybe? I don't know :D

It does seem to switch from 5/4 to 6/4 every measure. . . But wouldn't that make it 11/4 or something instead of 5/6? Whatever, it sounds beautiful, I don't even care anymore.

i think it's because the time signature is 5/6 but in between it's got bits with different time signatures which is odd for a song

its called 5/6 because of the time signature

Its called 5/6 because its the time signature its in.. If you count the beats it would sound like this
"1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6" then repeat.

if some1 hits dislike i'll kill him , hahah :p

Thats the time signature this song was written in

I wish I knew too. I'm so confused.

I was wondering too..

Wait, why is it called 5/6?

one word.........Wonderful

Loving Jason means owning a soul :)

you dont own anything not even your soul ?

Oh, I love it too. And I love Jason <3

Thanks, love this song. <3