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Since the only thing known about the project was that it was based on the short story, the Byrds tried to stretch the lyrics to fit the gig.
Sinfield's work, the lyrics are very surreal and difficult to interpret.
Enough" includes "2001", a rocker with semi-cyberpunk lyrics about the near future. Also, "Another Part of Me" written for a 3D SF short called "Captain Eo"; the lyrics are a message from aliens.Visit" has an Arthurian track, "The Lady or Shalott" (lyrics are from Alfred Lord Tennysons poem of the same name).
This is about how, as man advances, the world we know is destroyed - part of lyrics - "Nobody laughs, nobody cries". They're noted for their appropriation of hi-fi hype nabbed from the back of 60's Vanguard records, as well as for their music (aural op-art with philosophy-essay lyrics in French and English). The former contains a fair smattering of lyrics in German since the robots are supposedly attracted to those who can speak conversational German. Kerry Livgren is heavily into Chrisianity, lending an alternative interpretation to many of the lyrics. For instance, their song "Atrocity Exhibition" referred to in New Order's "the Him" (a minor character in "The Atrocity Exhibition"); Ian Curtis's unused lyric "Driftwood" is based on Ballard's first novel "the Drowned World", and many of his lyrics have a generally Ballardian feel.Hedges", which appears on the LP "The Sky's Gone Out" doesn't seem to make a lot of sense at first -- until you realize that the lyrics are a pastiche of phrases from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", at which point it becomes much clearer.
The enclosed lyrics to Prince's soundtrack album show the listener which character(s) are singing which songs (Bruce Wayne, Vikki Vayle, Batman, Joker, and Gemini -- half Batman & half Joker).
The album "Doolittle" has "Monkey Gone To Heaven" with lines such as "Creature in the sky got sucked through a hole, now there's a hole in the sky" about an alien and the Ozone hole? Over the World" is about an alien sky-surfing in a planet's upper atmosphere and wipes out, includes the lyric "when one side is hot, the other side of the moon is not" also used in a much earlier Pixies song, which I can't recall. Green Hills of Earth" -- lyrics by Heinlein (or Rhysling, if you prefer) from the story of the same name. The "Sandman" issue "Brief Lives" includes some of the lyrics from that song. Lanes" and "Saturn X Radio Report", but their lyrics at their most understandable are fairly cryptic, and often just darn obscure. Chins" mentioned at the beginning of the lyric are a (thin) disguise for the Red Chinese, which were quite a cliche of the Era. It" includes "21st Century Boy" along with other SF-sounding stuff; the lyrics are difficult to decipher. One" -- Very Judge Dredd-influenced lyrics, about policeman in a MegaCity of the future. Their lyrics are obscure enough so that most of their songs can be taken for SF - or anything else, for that matter. Moorcock's "The Eternal Champion"; the lyrics to another spoken track on "Space Ritual" from his book "The Black Corridor" The lyrics of "The Awakening", "Spirit of the Age" and "The 10 Seconds of Forever", are SF poems from Robert Calvert's collection of poems, "Centigrade 232". Much of the lyrics of "Nemesis" seem to refer to the death of the dinosaurs as the result of this sort of cosmic catastrophe.