Alternative Echoes lyrics for verse 1
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I've made an attempt at transcription from the Rome gig:
The third verse, 2nd line is particularly difficult (around 4'16"):
Rome June 20, 1971
The Return of the Son of Nothing
(Two) planets meeting face to face
One to the other cried, "How sweet
If endlessly we might embrace
(in) perfect union deep in space
"An [if] Heaven might this once relent
and give us leave to shine as one
Our two lights here forever
one light blent [blended]?"
And in that longing to be one
The parting summons sound is [drawn? drummed?]
"I see you've got to travel on
and on and on around the sun"
The third verse, 2nd line is particularly difficult (around 4'16"):
Rome June 20, 1971
The Return of the Son of Nothing
(Two) planets meeting face to face
One to the other cried, "How sweet
If endlessly we might embrace
(in) perfect union deep in space
"An [if] Heaven might this once relent
and give us leave to shine as one
Our two lights here forever
one light blent [blended]?"
And in that longing to be one
The parting summons sound is [drawn? drummed?]
"I see you've got to travel on
and on and on around the sun"
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Listening to the 05-June-71 concert, on Vierundzwanzig Teile Von Nichts [HRV CDR 029], it sounds like "The parting summons sound is rung", which feels a lot nicer.Frankymole wrote:I've made an attempt at transcription from the Rome gig:
The third verse, 2nd line is particularly difficult (around 4'16"):
Rome June 20, 1971
The Return of the Son of Nothing
(Two) planets meeting face to face
One to the other cried, "How sweet
If endlessly we might embrace
(in) perfect union deep in space
"An [if] Heaven might this once relent
and give us leave to shine as one
Our two lights here forever
one light blent [blended]?"
And in that longing to be one
The parting summons sound is [drawn? drummed?]
"I see you've got to travel on
and on and on around the sun"
And definitely "blended", not "blent" like the original poem.
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Re: Alternative Echoes lyrics for verse 1
The source for the original lyrics comes from a poem from Mohammed Iqbal called "Two Planets":
Two planets meeting face to face
One to the other cried 'How sweet
If endlessly we might embrace
And here forever stay! how sweet
If Heaven a little might relent
And leave our light in one light blent!'
But through that longing to dissolve
In one, the parting summons sounded.
Immutably the stars revolve,
By changeless orbits each is bounded;
Eternal union is a dream,
And severance the world's law supreme.
http://books.google.nl/books?id=bSHrAa- ... 22&f=false
Two planets meeting face to face
One to the other cried 'How sweet
If endlessly we might embrace
And here forever stay! how sweet
If Heaven a little might relent
And leave our light in one light blent!'
But through that longing to dissolve
In one, the parting summons sounded.
Immutably the stars revolve,
By changeless orbits each is bounded;
Eternal union is a dream,
And severance the world's law supreme.
http://books.google.nl/books?id=bSHrAa- ... 22&f=false
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Re: Alternative Echoes lyrics for verse 1
Wow!!! Thanks for the info. on Mohammed Iqbal's Two Planets and the relationship to early versions of Echoes.
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Re: Alternative Echoes lyrics for verse 1
I had no clue that is what the lyrics were taken from, I thought they had been cooked up in-house.
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Re: Alternative Echoes lyrics for verse 1
never knew that before, no wonder they had to change it
no Belloc, no Kubrick, no Iqbal
no Belloc, no Kubrick, no Iqbal
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Re: Alternative Echoes lyrics for verse 1
Roger got away with the T'ang poetry for "Set The Controls..." though! What was the Kubrick thing, I haven't heard of that before - what that about Echoes allegedly being written for 2001? Or the Floyd being asked to do "The Shining"?J Ed wrote:never knew that before, no wonder they had to change it
no Belloc, no Kubrick, no Iqbal
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Re: Alternative Echoes lyrics for verse 1
Another Kubrick in the wall?Frankymole wrote:What was the Kubrick thing, I haven't heard of that before - what that about Echoes allegedly being written for 2001?
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Re: Alternative Echoes lyrics for verse 1
Roger wanted to sample HAL 9000's dying words for the Amused to Death album but couldnt get legal clearance
he must have sorted it out later though because we can hear it in his In The Flesh dvd
he must have sorted it out later though because we can hear it in his In The Flesh dvd
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Re: Alternative Echoes lyrics for verse 1
The Shining came out in 1980, so I'm not sure that would have been on the cards.Frankymole wrote:Roger got away with the T'ang poetry for "Set The Controls..." though! What was the Kubrick thing, I haven't heard of that before - what that about Echoes allegedly being written for 2001? Or the Floyd being asked to do "The Shining"?
I think Kubrick wanted to use sections of Atom Heart Mother in A Clockwork Orange but it didn't work out.
The album cover does make two blink-and-ye-miss-it appearances in the movie though.
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Re: Alternative Echoes lyrics for verse 1
HilariousHarpo wrote:Another Kubrick in the wall?
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Re: Alternative Echoes lyrics for verse 1
the amazing pudding #19 featured an article on the changing lyric of
'return of the son of nothing'/'echoes'.
'return of the son of nothing'/'echoes'.