dream_song_lyrics epitome of incomprehensibility There's a novelty Christmas song about the 1990 fall of the Berlin Wall. Oddly plausible, except that it locates Berlin at the North Pole: It's Christmas at the North Pole, Used to be the Berlin Wall ...and then something about this being thanks to "Rybachev" on the Soviet side and "the FDA" on the American side. (Good old Mikhail Rybachev and the Food and Democracy Administration.) I got up early yesterday to record the remembered tune of the first two lines, and I ended up with the beginning of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," the part that goes, "He sees you when you're sleeping / He knows when you're awake." But the dream tune seemed to diverge after that. 230118 ... e_o_i "...like a raptor 'round your spinal" was supposed to be something cute/romantic about hugging the back of another person. Instead it gave me the image of a raptor's claws ripping the spinal cord out of some hapless animal. 240212 ... raze "proof of worth i jump in all the pots in bed with only passing thoughts" (i wanted to hear the rest, but i woke up before the song could grow longer legs) 240213 ... e_o_i This one is from the past - found_in_a_notebook - but I remember it was a verse of a folk ballad: How can this tragedy Tell them in Russeltown He was a good And growing man? 250517 what's it to you? who go blather from