Word: horrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About the lyrics, don't brother. Besides the fact that the music and vocals give a more accurate measure of his talent, Hancock usually doesn't write his lyrics anyway. The most flagrant example of horrid lyrics comes through all too plainly in "Tell Everybody." "Honey from the Air" shows how a meaningless set of words can still reflect, with the help of solid backup vocals, hard work and good intentions. "Honey" 's pliant use of instruments stretches the sound beyond the poor lyrics...
...Shot? Horrid smell." And later: "Today did not set the tent but put up in Gov[ernmen]t shimbek. Zanzibari in charge-very obliging. Met ripe pineapple for the first time. On the road today passed a skeleton tied up to a post. Also white man's grave-no name. Heap of stones in the form of a cross...
Shall blow the horrid deed in every...
...victim instead of quaking for him. It is funny, but it makes the rest of the play hard to take seriously; when De Flores cuts off the dead man's finger to remove a ring, the "crack!" that snaps through the theater is as ludicrous as it is horrid...
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