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a squid eating dough in a polyethelene bag is fast and bulbous, got me? |
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Also, a tin teardrop. |
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Yes. |
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magic band are playing here in a coupla weeks!! saw them at atp too. |
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i love the beefheart. |
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Who's the guy in your avatar? |
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ehhh urrrr ehhh urrrr |
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who's the hot chick is yours? |
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yea. totally. nice avatar |
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I love the Captain. been translating texts of his to Dutch for a music-theatre-production. very hard, but very cool. |
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Bat chain Puller Bat chain puller Puller, puller A chain with yellow lights That glistens like oil beads On its slick smooth trunk That trails behind on tracks, and thumps A wing hangs limp and retreats Bat chain puller Puller puller Bulbs shoot from its snoot And vanish into darkness It whistles like a root snatched from dry earth Sodbustin’ rakes with grey dust claws Announces its coming in the morning This train with grey tubes That houses people’s very thoughts and belongings. Bat chain puller Puller puller This train with grey tubes that houses people’s thoughts, Their very remains and belongings. A grey cloth patch Caught with four threads In the hollow wind of its stacks Ripples felt fades and grey sparks clacks, Lunging the cushioned thickets. Pumpkins span the hills With orange crayola patches. Green inflated trees Balloon up into marshmallow soot That walks away in forty circles, Caught in grey blisters With twinkling lights and green sashes Uuh Pulled by rubber dolphins with gold yawning mouths That blister and break in agony In souls of rust They kill gold sawdust into dust. Bat chain puller, Puller puller. |
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i can't see how you can translate it. you could convey the literal meaning but surely it would be impossible to keep the alliteration and the other deliberte oral gymnastics that for me are the main body of his lyrics |
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thats made me sound like a complete gobshite but i think you know what i mean |
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that's the whole point - it's silly to try to keep the literal meaning. the rhythm and acoustics of the text are the most important, just like you say. so I had to find new words that are close, but do have a same kind of rhythm in Dutch. I did try to get as much of the literal meaning as possible. it was a lot of work, but I think it works. we already had performances - a professional actor kind of sang/spoke the text over the music, which are all new arrangements for a 4-piece ensemble. it sounded pretty good. |
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I saw yuh baby dancin' in your x-ray gingham dress I knew you were under duress I knew you were under yer dress Just keep comin' Jesus Your the best dressed You look dandy in the sky but you don't scare me Cause I got you here in my eye In this lifetime you got m'humangetsmeblues With yer jaw hangin' slack n' yer hair's curlin' Like an ole navy fork stickin' in the sunset The way you were dancin' I knew you'd never come back You were strainin' t' keep yer Old black cracked patent shoes In this lifetime you got m'humangetsmeblues |
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gotcha |
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shes too much for my (or anyones) mirror |
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where'd you get that avatar komakino? i remember seeing that as part of the visuals when boc played the lighthouse party, and now when i see your avatar i go into a weird druglike trance.... |
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