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Originally Posted by captkjaneway
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That is happy news. She had the track recorded with Joyce's words originally, thinking that Ulysses was in the public domain. She played it for director Jimmy Murakami, who described it as "stunning," with the thought of him directing the video for it. He suggested it wasn't PD, so she checked and ended up having to rewrite the words.
It reminds me of the band Daniel Amos trying to get permission in 1983 to use "Hollow Men", but Eliot's heirs refused. The lyricist Terry Scott Taylor wrote a paraphrase of it, which was
performed with the music of the last song of their previous album played backwards.