Wow, you learn something knew everyday! Thanks for the info.
Oh, I thought I would add another lyric. For some reason certain lyrics in music really make me visualize certain scenes, like in Dont Fear the Reaper when the singer says "The candles blew and then he appeared (saying dont be afraid)"
Ever since I first heard this lyric I picture a fallen hero being weighed down as he tries to fight his way back up to his princess:
I was damned and you were saved... and I never knew how enslaved I was kneeling in the chains of my master.
> Right you are. The couplet was actually written by Ross A.
> Macdonald, who you'll note Jim acclaims in his first blog
> entry of September 5, 2007 as "America's greatest
> detective novelist of all time." In his spare time, he
> wrote poetry for newspapers, and this was one of the
> sonnets he churned out.
>
> Jim first re-used it in 1972 as "the Call of the
> Rhinegold," apparently printed on one of the first pages
> of the script for Rhinegold, as seen on this site.
> It has also been used (to great effect) as the opening
> track of the Pandora's Box album Original Sin
> (where I assume it was mistakenly credited to Jim) and as
> the intro to one of the DOTV demos of "Total
> Eclipse" on Smeg's site.
>
> > nice choice. not Jim though.
> >
> > >
> > > If light were dark and dark were light
> > > The moon a black hole in the blaze of night
> > > A raven's wing as bright as tin
> > > Then you, my love
> > > Would be darker than sin
> > >
> > >
> > >
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