What Jim said was:
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IT IS AND WILL REMAIN: "IN THE LAND OF THE PIG THE BUTCHER IS KING." ... "In the Land of the PigS" is NOT SCARY! It connotes a bunch of pigs, even a nation of pigs! BUT--"LAND OF THE PIG" connotes ONE MYTHICALLY HUGE ICONIC ALL CONSUMING PIG! A SYMBOL OF ALL!!! IT IS SCARY! Scary to be "in the land of the pig." Not so scary to be in "the land of the pigs." ... And it makes "THE BUTCHER IS KING" infinitely more frightening! I know Meat sang PIGS, dont have a clue why. I had talked to Meat about it 2 years ago, and mentioned it should sound like Metallica/Disturbed meets Kurt Weill, my fave 20th century composer. Well he did kind of get HALF the equation. = : - )
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Ellipses mine. In a separate blog entry, he also assumes Desmond is responsible for the changes in lyric and song structure.