Huck's Zappa Page: "Ya Hozna" backwards lyrics

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"Ya Hozna" is a song from the album Them Or Us. The backward lyrics are from "Valley Girl" outtakes, "Sofa #1", and "Lonely Little Girl".

From Johannes Labisch <labisch@DBresearch-berlin.de>:
Here is the corrected version of the Ya Hozna lyrics. The credit for doing this has to be given to todd@cup.hp.com (Todd Poynor), who listened to all the backward lyrics and checked out the running time at when they appear. I deleted the english translation of the word to "Sofa" and entered the german ones.

  4:23 [English:] I am the heaven
  4:15            I am the water
  4:08 [German:]  Ich bin deine Ritze
  3:54            Ich bin deine Ritze und Schlitze
  3:47 [English:] I am the clouds
  3:42 [German:]  Ich bin der Chrome Dinette            [sic!]
                  Ich bin Eier aller Arten
                  Ich bin alle Tage und Naechte
  3:22            Ich bin alle Tage und Naechte
  3:20            (ha-ee-ya)
  3:15 [English:] I am embroidered
  3:09 [German:]  Ich bin der Dreck unter deinen Walzen
  3:08 [English:] Oh, no, [whip?] it on me, honey [?]
  3:06            (ha-ee-ya)
  3:04            (ha-ee-ya)
  3:00 [German:]  Ich bin hier
  2:58            (ha-ee-ya)
  2:47            Ich bin der Autor aller Felgen und Damask-Paspeln
  2:39            Ich bin der Chrome Dinette

       [Radio:]   You're a lonely little girl
  2:28            But your mommy and your daddy don't care

  2:24 [German:]  Ich bin hier
  2:22            (ha-ee-ya)
  2:17            Und du bist mein Sofa

  2:12 [Radio:]   You're a lonely little girl

       [German:]  Ich bin hier
  2:01            Und du bist mein Sofa
  1:57            (cadenza)

       [Moon:]    I'm, like, [green? grief?]
                  I'm, like, [squat?]
                  I'm, like, so
                  Repeat, like, so
                  Oh, I'm, like, [?.... appalling...?]
                  I'm, like, okay, like, so
  1:43            Oh, I'm so

  1:31 [German:]  Ich bin dein geheimer Schmutz und verlorenes Metallgeld
  1:27            (Metallgeld)
  1:25            (ha-ee-ya)
  1:20            Und du bist mein Sofa
  1:15            Ich bin hier
  1:13            (ha-ee-ya)

       [Moon:]    You'll never [? she's ... ]
                  Like, so; like, so; like, so
  1:06            Okay, I like it

       [German:]  Ich bin hier
  0:54            And you are my sofa
                  Und du bist mein Sofa
  0:50            (cadenza)

       [Moon:]    Yeah, like, [...?...], faster, faster
                  Go, do it, do it [right? great?]
                  Yeah, I'm feelin' good
                  I'm lookin' great
                  Yeah, fer shure
  0:38            Like, no way

       [German:]  Ich bin hier
  0:26            Und du bist mein Sofa
  0:22            (cadenza)
                  Ich bin hier
  0:10            Und du bist mein Sofa
  0:06            (cadenza)

@ Huck