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Starship Censorship?



19 Sep 2006 12:39:09 -0700 alt.music.lyrics
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Ron...
I just bought Jefferson Starship's Gold CD and was listening to Light
The Sky On Fire. When I went to find the lyrics for the song I found
that half of the lyrics of the song were replaced by... well, bogus
lyrics that weren't even close to those of the song:

nancy13g...
Aren't there two different versions of the song, the one from the Star
Wars special and the "regular" version?


a l l y...


Go on, identify it if you want to.
What I would really like to know.
Will you light the sky on fire?
Will you light tonight like
you did the night before?
Hey! You could take me higher
than the diamonds in the sky.
Take me, light in the sky and we'll
we'll vanish without a trace,
on a cigar-shaped object.

But somebody changed them to:

God, all dignified,if you want to.
What I would really like to know.
Will you light the sky on fire?
Will you light tonight like
you did the night before?
Hey! You could take me higher
than the diamonds in the sky.
Take me, light in the sky and we'll
vanish without a trace and we'll see God then.

And the rest of the song lyrics had been similarly changed to be
more... parochial. Does anybody know if the correct version of this
song is available? And why would somebody edit the song like that? For
that matter, who edited it?

a l l y...
The first line just sounds like a genuine mistake - the sort you make if you
mis-hear a song. "Go on, identify it if you want to" could easily get
mungled up into, "God, all dignified if you want to," but that doesn't
explain the changes in the last line.

I can see a scenario like this, though: Someone mis-hears the first line,
and tries to learn the song off by heart. Years later, when the internet
gets going and people start posting lyrics online, this person tries to
remember the words to this song, and writes them all down from memory, as
they no longer have the original record. They've completely forgotten the
last line by now, but because they've convinced themselves the song is
something to do with God, they actually make up a last line, possibly
convincing themselves in the process that it was the original line.... Now
this person may be the first to post the lyrics of that particular song
online, and other people who run lyrics websites just go out searching for
lyrics that are already online, and copy them. And so, the mistake
propagates....

The moral of the story is - never believe what you read online, even if you
find it copied over and over again across countless websites. If the first
one was mistaken, all those who copied it will be wrong too...
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