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Mulu The Rain Forest Lyrics
If I'm not sleeping
It's because I'm frightened
Of what I might find
Behind the curtain
There is a signal
There is a warning
I will not heed them
Until I hear the morning dew
That trickles down my window
Mulu - the people of the rain forest
Believe in dreamtime
Real time inverted
Along a faultline
Below the surface
There is a sequence
There is a reason
For all these nightmares
For all this mayhem
Mulu - the changes came before they knew
The keeper of the rain forest
Talk to me, Mulu
Speak to me, Mulu
Walk with me, Mulu
Reach for me, Mulu
Mulu
The changes came before they knew
The seasons changed an hour too soon
The waters came before he knew
The prisoner of the rain forest
It's because I'm frightened
Of what I might find
Behind the curtain
There is a signal
There is a warning
I will not heed them
Until I hear the morning dew
That trickles down my window
Mulu - the people of the rain forest
Believe in dreamtime
Real time inverted
Along a faultline
Below the surface
There is a sequence
There is a reason
For all these nightmares
For all this mayhem
Mulu - the changes came before they knew
The keeper of the rain forest
Speak to me, Mulu
Walk with me, Mulu
Reach for me, Mulu
The changes came before they knew
The seasons changed an hour too soon
The waters came before he knew
The prisoner of the rain forest
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I think this song is about trying to connect to the spirit of nature. Where a rhyme and reason for everything exists. The inverted reality of Dreamtime. (Which I find a spiritual connection between Dolby and Kate Bush's The Dreaming song, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreaming.) Shows us a hazy foggy path into destiny. Like a spiritual quest we go on away from everything, to find ourselves.
[Edit: Context]
This song, which reinforces its theme of temporal confusion and ecological disaster with out-of-phase, off-time music, has always seemed to me to be about a local god or shaman worshipped by a rain forest tribe. He fails to predict that "the seasons" would change "too soon," and his people are either displaced or destroyed by a flood -- a freak occurrence, perhaps, or a sign of natural or man-made climate change. It is quite unlike anything one would hear on a major pop record these days... but then there was little like it in the 80's, either. Another innovative and overlooked masterpiece by one of the most innovative artists of the time.