Re: End of "Leave it Open" (was: "Sat in Your Lap")

[Sven Doerr <sd@ira.uka.de>]

In article <9209291834.AA02114@relay1.UU.NET>, Deb Wentorf writes:
> A brief nit-picky note to Uli:
> 
> In a recent posting, you noted "We let the weirdness in" as being
> the last line in "Sat in Your Lap."  Actually, if my memory serves,
> these are in fact the last words spoken at the very end of "Leave
> It Open."  (...)
> 

Yes, we meant "Leave it Open", right.
Interesting: forwards it really sounds like "We let the weirdness in".
I didn't realize this since I was so certain it is backwards. And
I still believe it is ! Played backwards, Kates voice is _much_clearer_
as forwards. The "lyrics" go (bw.) something like:
    and / they / said / they / wont / really / hear
        /      / sent / them / on a / weary  / here
        /      / sat  /      / want / very   /
but I cannot get them exactly. Perhaps there are even two slightly
different versions. Or - theory? - while the music plays, it is
forwards, and at the very end it is backwards, this way conditioning
the listener for what he has to hear on the following backwards
lines (and in my case: vice versa).
Maybe someone else wants to try to turn his record-player backwards
by hand, or can fool his dual head (autoreverse) cassette-recorder
to play the other track, as I did, what gives a convincing result.


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