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Monday, August 25, 2025

"Hungry Planet"

The phrase "all alone" in the line "Now here I am all alone" in "Hungry Planet" alliterates, and because the two words start with the same sound, there's a sense of this singularity.

In the lines "Oh, the people kept choppin' down / All my finest trees," "down" is sung with a descending melisma (C Bb), illustrating the meaning.
By David Brauer
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