Korgscrew
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Posted: July 17 2003, 14:31 |
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I think that this is a matter of interpretation. I would personally say that lyrics like those come from a need to make something understandable out of nonsense - that is, I don't believe that the caveman in Altered State sings any English words at all (or indeed, words in any other language which I can identify).
It's a common phenomena, that humans look for recognisable patterns in things. Draw three dots arranged into a triangle, then draw a line at one of the points, parallel to the side opposite that point. You might recognise what you've drawn as a face. Is it a face? No, it's three dots and a line, just that our brains are programmed to look for faces in things.
Similar with words - in an attempt to understand them, we look for something familiar, and sometimes we fill in a lot of details to make things fit the pattern...what I mean to say is, listen hard enough for recognisable lyrics in a load of nonsense, and you'll probably find some. It just doesn't mean they're actually there...
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. What sounds to me like the 'real lyrics', as posted sometime ago on the Italian Fan Club's site www.mikeoldfield.it, goes something like this: