Humor The Shoals of Kraken Mare

[kamaz]

In the vastness of internets, I have found this gem: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaWg7Wm-IwM"]The Shoals of Kraken Mare - YouTube[/ame]

I'm wondering, could someone help me understand it and transcribe the lyrics? I can't understand most of it, but from the bits I do understand, it appears to be very cool... Titanic on Titan

 

[statickid]

weird...sounds like half Englsih and Deutch

 

[jedidia]

It's definitely english all the way, but the chorus is almost uninteligable. About the only word I am sure I understand is "cyanide".

 

[kamaz]

Funny that, because I never heard "cyanide" anywhere. Here's what I can make out of it:

.......... sky,
Waves ... are slow, but 40 meters high
... methane flows beneath the hull, a hundred ..........
we sail Kraken Mare, ..........

[unintelligible chorus, ending with:]
... of Saturn, says you're far from home

The shores are .........., the sea is storming ...
A witches' brew of chemistry, it's a madman's fever dream,
.......... hydrocarbon hell
.......... may be tickling Kraken's tail

[unintelligible chorus, ending with:]
... of Saturn, says you'll never make it home

.......... shore
Ice rock ripped through the hull and left a jagged hole
Abandon ship now, man the boats, to the chilly place to die
.......... and fly

[unintelligible chorus, ending with:]
... of Saturn, says now here's your only home

 

[statickid]

our main sail hath shot 'cross the ...(argnovin?).... sky waves we pass slow, but 40 meters high , oh the methane blows beneath the (power?) a 100 fathoms down as we sail kraken mareth down home? for (hommagoton?)

hey o hey o hear the tug of Titan's tide,

hey o hey o smell the whiff of cyanide,

hey o hey o hear the splash of oily foam, the (ghost?oo) of Saturn says your far from home

the shores of askdjflaks( what kamaz said)


and somewhere down beneath the waves in hydrocarbon hell, god knows what ...(ghost?)...lurks there, maybe Titan Krakens dwell


(hey o chorus)

...saturn says "you'll never make it home"

the ethane sleet has slammed us up 'gainst a tarry shore...

(what kamaz said)

flap the long boat wings boys (haul?) on those oars and fly

(hey o hey o) chorus

the (ghost?) of Saturn says "NOW here's yourrrrrr way hoome"

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and i'm thinking he might be saying

abandon ship! now man the boats! tiz' a chilly place to die! flap the long boat wings boys! haul on those oars and fly!

mentioning its a chilly place to die as part of the command to motivate the crew in working harder

 

[kamaz]

Thanks a lot! Interestingly, after reading your post once, I was able to understand missing words when listening. Human mind works in strange ways.

The text actually makes a lot of sense now. Here is an almost-complete transcript:


Our main sail hath shot 'cross the ??? orange sky
Waves we pass slow, but 40 meters high
Oh the methane blows beneath the hull a 100 fathoms down
As we sail Kraken Mare down home for ??? town

Hey o hey o hear the tug of Titan's tide,
Hey o hey o smell the whiff of cyanide,
Hey o hey o hear the splash of oily foam,
The ghost of Saturn says: "You're far from home"

The shores are ??? the sea is storming ???
A witches' brew of chemistry, it's a madman's fever dream,
And somewhere down beneath the waves in hydrocarbon hell,
God knows what ghost lurks there, maybe Titan krakens dwell

Hey o hey o hear the tug of Titan's tide,
Hey o hey o smell the whiff of cyanide,
Hey o hey o hear the splash of oily foam,
The ghost of Saturn says: "You'll never make it home"

The ethane sleet has slammed us up 'gainst a tarry shore
Ice rock ripped through the hull and left a jagged hole
Abandon ship! Now man the boats! Tiz' a chilly place to die!
Flap the long boat wings boys! Haul on those oars and fly!

Hey o hey o hear the tug of Titan's tide,
Hey o hey o smell the whiff of cyanide,
Hey o hey o hear the splash of oily foam,
The ghost of Saturn says: "Now here's your long way home"


That was apparently written by someone with good understanding of conditions on Titan. The whiff of cyanide line is pure gold Also, this line:

Flap the long boat wings boys! Haul on those oars and fly!

can have a double meaning, as it's been theorized that due to low gravity and dense atmosphere a human could fly by strapping wings to his arms.

 

[statickid]

yeah its really cool and well thought out. it almost sounds like a fantasy story with flying boats and such, except the "impossible" is simply an exotic condition of an alien world... thanks for sharing this!

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and for what you are saying about reading and listening... i listened to it the first time and couldn't understand anything but every 10th word, and I swore it didn't even sound like english, then after reading YOUR post, i could understand the missing parts pretty well too. language can be quite a strange thing

 

[SiberianTiger]

Cool! :thumbup:

But the someone who created that could have really used more than one still image for his vid.

 

[statickid]

hahah yeah there is a lot of simulated and ACTUAL imagery from Titan

 

[SiberianTiger]

Our main sail hath shot 'cross the ??? orange sky
Waves we pass slow, but 40 meters high
Oh the methane blows beneath the hull a 100 fathoms down
As we sail Kraken Mare down home for ??? town

...

The shores are ??? the sea is storming ???

Could any English native speaker try to fill in the gaps in the lyrics?

 

[statickid]

i am english native speaker, those particular words are.... quite.... unintelligible, for me at least. maybe someone from the East coat or England can understand them

 

[Linguofreak]

Here's what I hear:

Our main sail hath shot 'cross the punch(???) or-ange sky
Waves we pass slow, but 40 meters high
Oh the methane blows beneath the bow a 100 fathoms down
As we sail Kraken Mare down home for Vonnegut(???) town

Hey o hey hear the tug of Titan's tide,
Hey o hey smell the whiff of cyanide,
Hey o hey hear the splash of oily foam,
The ghost of hot(???) Saturn says: "You're far from home"

The shores of mighty high(???)land feed the sea with storming(???) stream(s)
A witches' brew of chemistry, it's a madman's fever dream,
And somewhere down beneath the waves in hydrocarbon hell,
God knows what ghost lurks there, maybe Titan krakens dwell

Hey o hey hear the tug of Titan's tide,
Hey o hey smell the whiff of cyanide,
Hey o hey hear the splash of oily foam,
The ghost of hot(???) Saturn says: "You'll never make it home"

The ethane sleet has slammed us up 'gainst a tarry shore
Ice rock ripped through the hull and left a jagged hole
Abandon ship! Now man the boats! Tiz' a chilly place to die!
Flap the long boat wings boys! Haul on those oars and fly!

Hey o hey hear the tug of Titan's tide,
Hey o hey smell the whiff of cyanide,
Hey o hey hear the splash of oily foam,
The ghost of hot(???) Saturn says: "Now here's your(???) only home"

There's definitely a syllable between "of" and "Saturn", and it sounds like "hot", but that doesn't really make sense.

In the last line I hear "only home" rather than "long way" as kamaz transcribed it, but "your" doesn't sound very clear to me, and may be something else (though it fits the context).

 

[kamaz]

As we sail Kraken Mare down home for Vonnegut(???) town

Kurt Vonnegut wrote a book called Sirens of Titan. Naming a settlement after him would actually make sense...

The ghost of hot(???) Saturn says: "You're far from home"

I don't know, but how about " old " / " ol' "?

The shores of mighty high(???)land feed the sea with storming(???) stream(s)

Highlands and mare. Like on Earth's Moon. Yup.

Also, wouldn't "steaming streams" (as in evaporation and fog) fit here?

In the last line I hear "only home" rather than "long way" as kamaz transcribed it, but "your" doesn't sound very clear to me, and may be something else (though it fits the context).

I'm with you here. I originally heard "only home" (see #4), but then changed it to the way statickid transcribed. He's a native speaker after all, I'm not

 

[Linguofreak]

Kurt Vonnegut wrote a book called Sirens of Titan. Naming a settlement after him would actually make sense...



I don't know, but how about " old " / " ol' "?

There's definitely no "l" in there that I can hear, and I'm fairly certain there is an h at the beginning of the syllable.

In fact, just from sound, without the context to tell me that it's nonsense, I would be very confident about saying that it's "hot".

Highlands and mare. Like on Earth's Moon. Yup.

Also, wouldn't "steaming streams" (as in evaporation and fog) fit here?

It would fit, but it's definitely not what I'm hearing. Once again, it's more context (and grammar) that has me doubting things, not the sounds I'm hearing. "Stream(s)" it pretty definitely "stream" by sound, but it doesn't fit grammatically, and the vowel in "storming" is almost certainly /or/ and very definitely not /i/ (/i/ being the vowel in "steam").