Steppenwolf Lyrics

[John Majka]

>This leads me onto a convenient question:
>
>The lyrics for Steppenwolf are really brilliant, especially the way they
>are sung with the hard edged consonants and exagerated pronounciation.
>However, I have this nagging feeling that Calvert didn't in fact write
>all these words and some should be credited to an ancient chinese
>philosopher/poet. No I'm not kidding. Lines like "Under skies heavy with
>snow, my eyes are convex lenses of ebony, embedded in amber" I think
>should be credited to someone other than Calvert.
>
>Can anyone say whether this theory is total bullshit or if there is some
>element of truth to it and maybe suggest where I picked this information
>up from?
>Mark Edmonds
>

No, these words you've quoted are Calvert's own.  The lyrics are heavily
based, however, upon the novel "Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse, which I
highly recommend by the way.
John Majka, English instructor
flossbac at wcic.org