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Great choice, TraktorBass! I’m completely with you here, what a song! Quite happy with the previous songs of the month, too. You picked the classics. Except for No Evil though, which doesn’t do it for me. I’m much more into the stuff they released in the ’90s, pretty much everything from the pre-cake-era is far better than the later stuff. But that’s just my insignificant personal opinion, although I believe there are a few others who share it…
As for the lyrics – I’m not a big fan of intensive interpreting, although I can see the fun of it. Yet, for me it’s kinda futile because you’ll never know for sure what the author had in mind. Therefore, I prefer to leave the cryptic passages alone and let them hover, oscillate, and change. Concerning the raped-girl-reading: that goes a bit far, I reckon. Bent’s words seem to indicate some sort of action on the girl’s side (“you gave it all away”, “you put too much slack…”) rather than depicting her as a victim. Matt’s words on the other hand could be understood in the way mentioned above…
One more thing I’d like to point out about the song… I don’t have any musical background whatsoever so I’m not sure if I’ll use the right expressions… Anyway: during the first verse the music’s quite low/quiet/slow and just when Bent hits the first line of the chorus (“You’re just like meeeeee”) the music erupts. However, the second verse is longer so when the musical part of the verse (again quiet) has actually finished, Bent hasn’t finished the words: the music erupts with “… conception of liiiiiife” and the “You’re just like me”-part is sort of attached. When listening to it, I always get the impression as if Bent cramed too many words into this verse…. Hm, don’t know if this makes any sense to you… It’s just an observation… Btw, I really love this part. It somehow adds a touch of urgency to the song…
Welcome Wulf, and good work on ozzylot! I agree with GBD’s changes except for “my time was due”, I guess it’s “good”. But then, still no headphones here…
GBD: Excellent! Great thing to come up with! :MPD: Never heard of the swan song before, thanks for that! So, obviously that’s what they’re enchanted by!
I had one try at Diana, didn’t get more than three words in a row, and left it frustrated half way through. What you’ve got sounds good! Can’t help you with the blanks… yet.
And we still need The waiting Game and the second stanza of Riding the tiger!
Come on, people!
@GBD: Cool! I’m quite happy with your changes. “Grinding” is so much cooler (and more likely) than just “riding” and “Seems like lifetime’s spent” is better than my version, too, both grammatically and meaning-wise!
But what does “seephing” mean? Never heard of that one before…
I know my “walz”-approach wasn’t the most logic one, but what’s “swan song”? A reference to sth? I’m actually quite convinced that the initial sound of the word is rather “w” than “s”… Edit: Ha! Just listening to it, and i think it depends if the article is “the” or “this”! Consider the sounds: -the-s-wa- (n for swan and l for walz sound very similar, so we can ignore it here) If the s belongs to the article it would be “this”, in which case the next word starts with “w”, that would make it “this walz” (probably). However, if the article is “the” the next word has to start with s, and that would make it “the swan”! Fantastic! Thing is: we’ll never know unless they tell us…
Gonna have to listen closely to the end again, some of your parts are right I guess, others could be right but could also be wrong. It’s really hard to tell with this one ’cause of the escalating singing in the end.
@otherdemon: I think the lead singer doesn’t always give a hint towards authorship, take fx Greener which is written by Bent and sung by Snah. I was actually talking about their writing stiles, too. So absolutely agreed!
Great work again GBD! Just a few samll changes from me:
“Soul shaker shake that soul”
(…)
“And show us your moves”
I’d go for “grow” instead of “dope”, sounds more like gr in the beginning.
I’ve got no alternative for “reprize” but I don’t think it’s that either. That’s not very constructive, I know, but it just sounds a lot like e in the end, sth like “free”. But then the first syllable clearly seems to be re… No idea.
And how about “… provide (the/that/our/us/my) soul and fire…” right from the first chorus on?
Concerning the end: that’s about as far as I got. Looks like we need more opinions… C’mon, Nauts!
Btw, on the cover it says Riding the Tiger, Cornucopia and Mr Victim were written by Bent and Snah together. Don’t know if that refers to music and lyrics. However, to me, the words of riding the tiger and mr victim sound a lot like Snah while those of Cornucopia clearly seem to come from Bent. Know what I mean?
Here’s another one, though almost a whole stanza’s missing. So have a go!
Riding the tiger
The faces that I thought I’d seen
and all the (…)
The places that I knew I’d been
were all inside my head
Let’s scream it from the balconies
(…)
And it just got started
now the walls come tumbling down
There’s no doubt about it
revolution’s just to turn
As the wheels are turning
a sign of (…) all around
Great work, GBD! I reckon that’s as close as you can get. You used headphones, I suppose. Lucky you, I’m lacking some right now, so I’ve got more blanks to fill in in my transcription. Anyway, here’s what i’ve made out of Mr Victim. Though some fragments and the end are missing it’s a great text, very snahish!
Mr Victim
One last lap
and the rules of attraction change
One little lie
(…) of escapist traits (?)
Now we’re busy riding diamonds into dust
Since that lifetime spending at the thought, seething with disgust
Some things never change, they stay the same
Mr Victim takes the blame
Two for the (rose?hoes?) stumbling blindly to the minefield of the heart
Two lost souls beg for mercy as they rip it all apart
Now we’re busy… see above
Since that lifetime…
Some things never change but all the same
We sing along enchanted by this walzer (really sounds like -er in the end, though that’s german writing, english would be waltz. Waltz (or walzer) seems bizarr in the first place but I couldn’t come up with sth else. And I’d love it if it was right!)
Finally realizing that the thrill has gone, there’s no turning back
Now we’re busy…
Since that lifetime…
Some things never change, they stay the same
Mr Victim takes the blame but all the same he.. (‘ll stay?)
We sing along enchanted by this walzer
(…)
We sing along…
(…)
We
(…)
Have to admit: shame the end is missing, it’s the best part imo. I have the same problem with cotf, got most of the words except for the end. It starts great though: “Soul shaker shake that soul, show us the groove…”
Help’s most welcome, feel free to join in! I reckon with some coop in puzzling and educated guessing we can figure this out!
I’d love it if that was true, that would make the record a rare collector’s item! 8O
But I doubt it’s true.
My small record shop’s owner said he got ten copies. I reckon you could easily find 20 to 30 record stores selling the album just in Germany! Besides, wasn’t the 3LP TM limited to 2000 back then? That was actually not a lot, so I don’t think there are less copies of cotf than that. 
@GBD: Yeah! It so does! One of my faves so far.
I’ve listened to it several times now and I love it! And it’s still growing on me! Ozzylot’s the only one that doesn’t really do it for me so far, but the rest is killer stuff imo! Can’t wait to hear it live, especially riding the tiger, mr victim and the title track. I perfectly see why people compare it to trust us. However, when listening to Kenneth and Bent on mr victim I always think of a secret evil twin of whip that ghost from a parallel universe…
@Nils: I know what you mean concerning Bent’s voice. It’s clearer and stronger in a way, not as fragile and rough as it used to be. But the passion’s still there! I reckon the difference is he’s conveying different kinds of emotions. The whole album sounds very positive to me. Take cotf fx: the way he sings the chorus is heart-lifting and encouraging in a way I’ve hardly known from MP. But I think it’s great!
Cotf on again, and man, what a song! Going straight to my top ten mp songs…
Agreed, Captain, Bent’s a great lyricist and many examples could be cited, and yep, I also understand it as a review of feelings in different stages of adolescence.
But apart from the words: what a fantastic song! I love the way it starts: kinda gently with the duett to give you an idea of the pace, before this massive, dominating groove hits you. I love Bent’s singing, too. It’s so full of sadness, longing, pain, nostalgia, you hear he’s got the weight of the world on his soul. Yet, the best part imo is after that way-out-jam when all three of them come together once more for the last verse, and Snah goes: “Seventeen…” Ahhh, what a finish! It’s almost like the last chapter of a long book, like the ending of a well-told story.
There are actually quite a few songs by MP that give me the feeling of listening to a story…
But back to the (child of the) future now!
