Pandagaul.com – Listen adalah lagu yang direkam oleh penyanyi Amerika Beyoncé. Lagu ini ditulis oleh Beyoncé, Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, Samantha Worley dan Anne Preven. Diproduksi oleh The Underdogs, Matt Sullivan dan Randy Spendlove untuk film musikal tahun 2006 Dreamgirls, di mana karakter Beyoncé, Deena Jones menyanyikan lagu tersebut dalam ekspresi kemerdekaan dari suaminya yang mengendalikan.

Columbia Records merilis “Listen” sebagai singel utama dari album soundtrack Dreamgirls: Music from the Motion Picture pada tanggal 4 Desember 2006. Lagu ini juga muncul sebagai lagu tersembunyi pada edisi internasional, dan pada edisi deluxe album studio solo kedua Beyoncé, B’Day.

Listen adalah lagu soul-R&B; liriknya mengacu pada kegigihan, cinta, penolakan untuk menunda mimpi dan akhirnya naik menuju ketenaran. Instrumentasinya termasuk bass, drum, gitar, keyboard, perkusi, dan biola, antara lain.

Kritikus musik kontemporer memuji vokal Beyoncé yang kuat dan emosional, dan menambahkan bahwa liriknya secara sempurna menguraikan kehidupan Deena Jones.

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Listen to the song here in my heart
A melody I start but can’t complete

Listen to the sound from deep within
It’s only beginning to find release

Oh, the time has come for my dreams to be heard
They will not be pushed aside and turned
Into your own
All ’cause you won’t listen

Listen
I am alone at a crossroads
I’m not at home in my own home
And I’ve tried and tried
To say what’s on my mind
You should have known

Oh, now I’m done believing you
You don’t know what I’m feeling
I’m more than what you made of me
I followed the voice you gave to me
But now I gotta find my own

You should have listened
There is someone here inside
Someone I thought had died
So long ago

Oh, I’m screaming out, and my dreams will be heard
They will not be pushed aside or worse
Into your own
All ’cause you won’t listen

Listen
I am alone at a crossroads
I’m not at home in my own home
And I’ve tried and tried
To say what’s on my mind
You should have known

Oh, now I’m done believing you
You don’t know what I’m feeling
I’m more than what you made of me
I followed the voice you gave to me
But now I gotta find my own

I don’t know where I belong
But I’ll be moving on
If you don’t
If you won’t

Listen to the song here in my heart
A melody I start
But I will complete

Oh, now I’m done believing you
You don’t know what I’m feeling
I’m more than what you’ve made of me
I followed the voice you think you gave to me
But now I gotta find my own
My own