Proof that I am fundamentally verbally oriented:

[melannen]

Beyond the rim of the starlight
My love is wand'ring in starflight.
I know he'll find in star-covered reaches
Love, strange love a star-woman teaches.
I know his journey ends never,
His star trek will go on forever.
Tell him, as he sails his starry sea
Remember, remember me.

That, I still know off the top of my head. But ask me to hum the tune? You get a blank stare, followed by a few bars of 'Imperial March' that segue into the Twilight Zone theme by way of Ode to Joy.

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[kidzero.livejournal.com]

The only Star Trek lyrics I know involve Klingons on the starboard bow.

Love that Snoopy icon.

[tarimanveri.livejournal.com]

I've got an mp3 of "The Green Fields of France" but I've got a feeling that's not the same thing...

Ah, and if it were me I'd be able to hum you the tune but I'd be missing chunks of the lyrics - and I find lyrics far easier to remember than ordinary poetry!

[melannen.livejournal.com]

To sail on a dream in the sun-fretted darkness,
To soar the darkness unfrightened, alone,
To work in the service of life and the living
In search of the answers to questions unknown;
To be part of the movement and part of the growing,
Part of beginning to understand;

Enterprise, starship!
The places you've been to
The things that you've shown us,
The stories you'd tell;
Enterprise, starship,
We sing to your spirit,
The beings who've served you so long and so well.

Like the starfire that guides you
As we ride inside you
You shine in the darkness and lead us aright.
And though we are strangers in your silent spaces
While we're in your world we can learn from your night.
To be constant as stars, to reach ever outward
Laughing and loving and being your light!


... and I had *those* lyrics memorized before I even knew the John Denver song existed ...

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Not quite. (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/241.html) Actually I think I have an mp3 of that somewhere, too, but I don't think the meter matches.

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Isn't it "BUT tell him, as he TRAVELS his starry sea?"

It fits the music much better with more syllables. *I* know the lyrics *and* the tune! ;D

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's been years and years since I read that book! Give me a break!

[moodywho.livejournal.com]

Dude. I have the sheet music to it. Also, I really need a Kirk/Spock icon.

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Gee, I thought I heard you playing from that *piano* book the last time I was home. d-:

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Oh. Right.

Well, if you're going to be *that* way about it, it's actually "he *wanders* his starry sea", so there. q-:

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was always more of a McCoy girl. (I feel so lonely!)

[moodywho.livejournal.com]

It was always Spock for me.

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Two syllables! For the win!

[melsmarsh.livejournal.com]

What was that from?

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Alan Shore icon! No fair, cheating.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

That's the original lyrics to the theme music of the original Star Trek. (It was never actually sung for the show, so the only people who know them are sad, sad Star Trek geeks.)

[melannen.livejournal.com]

I hear that a lot.

[melsmarsh.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm a star trek geek, but not TOS. :-p