On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Hitoshi Doi wrote:

: [..English lyrics chopped..]
: 
: Those lyrics seem to be just a translation of the Japanese,
: with no effort to make it song-like.

In the story world, the English is a first-level translation, while the
Japanese would be second level (alien->English->Japanese)  As copies tend
to degenerate, that would make the English version more "true" to the
original alien language, who for all we know may have had no concept of
rhythm.

Joe Petrow
poyopoyo@gol.com