The Spoken IntroLee Smith said: "The intro is a sample from Douglas Spotted Eagle, a Grammy-winning Native American musician based in Utah.
Jørn Linné discovered that the song is called Dii'Saad'beh (With These Words) from an album called Closer to Far Away:
www.marillion.com has the following quote at the top of the lyrics: "The songs and the music that I portray comes from the heart, and comes from the mind. That makes it... that makes me feel that I am delivering the right information."
Songs with a link have explanations.
- Introduction
- Costa del Slough
- Under the Sun
- The Answering Machine
- Three Minute Boy
- Now She'll Never Know
- These Chains
- Born to Run
- Cathedral Wall
- A Few Words for the Dead
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Liesten to this https://www.deezer.com/en/track/16764924. Familiar?
ReplyDeleteI can see that they're not a million miles apart, but it's not identical. I doubt this is plagiarism, more likely just playing with similar tropes.
DeleteThe comments seem a bit spares on this song, considering that there is probably quite a bit to be said about its relation to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Good Friday agreement had been signed only a few months before the release of the album, and came into affect a year after it.
ReplyDeleteThe reference to "Take it down the disco" probably refers to this event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droppin_Well_bombing