Overlapped Choruses (chori?)

[Dancer_Flight]

I've been trying to decipher the background chorus buried under the main chorus of Delerium's Truly. As an afterthought I started wondering how many songs actually do this: have a strong main chorus with other words sung underneath.

Off hand I can think of two:

Sting's St. Augustine in Hell
and Delerium's Truly

Do you have any other examples?

And if anyone has figured out what's buried in Truly, (and if the mods have no objection to the posting of the lyrics to the sub chorus) can you please put me out of my misery?

-DF

[GorillaMan]

No idea about the music in question, but the adjective you want is 'bitextual'. It's a centuries-old technique, juxtaposing one set of words against another.

[Stark Raven Mad]

The commendatore scene of Don Giovanni (it's the last bit). If you haven't heard it, go get a recording and put it on. It's brilliant stuff.

[Dr. Kenneth Noisewater]

Choruses.
Weezer - Undone, Simple Pages
Promise Ring - Become One Anything One Time
there was a fair amount of it in Simon & Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair, but I don't recall if it was in the chorus or not.
The Police - Every Breath you Take

It makes for pretty cool endings, as you can see.

[ultrafilter]

Savatage's "Morphine Child" and Solefald's "Christiania (Edvard Munch Commemoration)" are both bitextual.

[Made in Macau]

If I understand this properly; - does Abba's 'Name of the Game' qualify? Or Steely Dan's 'Peg'?

MiM